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Ball bearings in service robots – lubrication? No, thank you!

Patrick Czaja | 27. January 2021

Service robots are machines that make daily life easier and perform services. With semi or fully-automatic function, they provide for the well-being of people. A distinction is made between service robots for private use, such as lawn mowing, floor mopping or vacuum cleaning robots, and robots for professional service.

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10 potential savings with igus linear plain bearings – White paper free of charge

Ingo Urbach | 26. January 2021

Save money and get your Tech up – A daily challenge for many engineers and designers and our service offer for you. At igus, potential savings are not just hidden in the purchase price. Your machine or project will benefit from a lot of advantages through our products. Example: Self-lubricating polymers and absolute cleanliness Low part […]

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Retrofitting a condition monitoring system on the energy supply system of an RMG crane

Richard Habering | 22. January 2021

Description of the application In this blog, or rather vlog, we have packed the main information into short videos alongside pictures and text. We hope that this will make the topic of smart plastics even more understandable. Konstantin Schmer takes you on a rail-mounted gantry crane. There we carried out the retrofitting of a condition […]

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Cables in potentially explosive atmospheres
What is ATEX?

igu-blog-adm | 21. January 2021

Sometimes you hear the term “explosive environment” and in this context also the term “ATEX”. Today we will take a closer look at what this is all about and why it is related to cables. What is a potentially explosive environment? A potentially explosive environment is a place where mixtures of vapours, gases or dust […]

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Ball bearings in semiconductor technology: why you should rely on igus®

Patrick Czaja | 21. January 2021

Semiconductor manufacturers face some challenges in the industry. Because they are always striving to achieve high productivity rates in their systems. Stringent and, above all, demanding application environments are commonplace in semiconductor technology, so components integrated into the process must function smoothly. In the etching of printed circuit boards or the production of LCD displays, […]

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