July, 2020 - igus Blog - Page 2

Compact cable guidance for slewing gear on indoor / EOT cranes

Jens Göbel | 28. July 2020

Energy chain systems offer a space-saving alternative for the cable routing on the slewing gear. The chain is guided lying on its side with the help of a round guide trough. In this way, angles of rotation of up to 540 ° and speeds of rotation of up to 360 °/s can be achieved.

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Automatisches Parksystem

How can downtime be reduced by using an adapter?

Beke Nieszytka | 21. July 2020

Automatic parking systems use conveyor technology to bring vehicles into parking position vertically and/or horizontally. There are two types of automatic parking systems: semi-automatic and fully automatic systems.

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Spherical thrust bearing – 2 cost-effective alternatives

Lars Butenschön | 21. July 2020

The classic bearing position in the mechanical engineering textbook provides for a simple shaft in a ball or needle roller bearing that is mounted in a radial direction. But what if the bearing position must be supported axially? It is not uncommon for bolts or rods to be supported at the ends in an axial […]

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Scara solution: From the idea to the product. Episode 1

Marius Glaue | 21. July 2020

Status Quo CW29 2020 In this blog series we would like to show you how we develop a new product. The end of this series is still completely open at the time I write these lines or you read these lines. Perhaps we will end up with no new product at all and fail halfway […]

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Which energy supply system makes sense for top drive systems?

Tim Schneebeck | 17. July 2020

The oil and gas business is not an easy one, especially in the so-called upstream production and extraction sector. Driven by the oil price, plants today have to work more and more efficiently to survive in the market. Many of the plants currently in operation are either not automated or only semi-automated. The efficiency of […]

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