On-point configuration for all requirements
With the new Flender One platform, this company’s engineers have developed the world’s narrowest gear-ratio range, with 103 stages between 1 and 7.1 per size for applications that require particularly precise speed, such as pumps and paper machines. This allows the rotational speed to be set almost ideally for maximum efficiency in these applications. The new platform not only optimizes efficiency during planning, but also during operation. The optimized Metaperform gearing reduces power loss by up to 50% compared with previous gear unit solutions. The digital enabler of all measurements and optimizations is the company’s new gearbox intelligence AIQ (photo). Its sensor technology and analysis functions continuously measure the torque and detect whether the gearbox and the plant are driven in overload or underload. The sensor not only records operating states, but also processes them directly, interprets them and provides operators with recommendations for action. — Flender International GmbH, Bocholt, Germany