Demands in consumer and industrial logistics are changing. Order lead times are getting shorter and container sizes are getting smaller. At the same time, factory logistics, and therefore also warehouse technology, are becoming ever more flexible, while conveyor modules are getting smaller and materials handling technology is increasingly mobile. Shuttle vehicles are taking over from rigid systems in certain areas – logistics and warehouse technology are changing. These changes are increasing the level of automation and decreasing the installation space for gearmotors. How much drive technology weighs plays a vital role, particularly when it comes to mobile systems. The associated drive systems must therefore also become more decentralized, more compact, more lightweight and more networked in order to efficiently meet these requirements.
We offer decentralized compact extra-low voltage drives precisely in order to meet these needs. The gearmotors consist of a compact motor with a 48 V DC voltage supply. These are compatible with compact planetary, right-angle, and right-angle planetary gear units. Together, they make up a drive solution with a compact construction for decentralized systems.
The compact motors are electronically commutated internal rotor motors with a high power density and dynamics. The motors feature fully integrated control electronics with an analog and digital interface. The parameters of these interfaces can be configured via an RS485 engineering interface. This enables users to make flexible use of the motors and adapt them to suit a variety of applications.
If your demands should go beyond the performance range of our new extra-low voltage drives, our extensive modular system of gearmotors offers a wide variety of solutions – from small to large, even over 500 kNm.
Logistics is changing – but we are still a partner you can rely on.
DCAShell engineering software is needed to adjust the parameters and operating modes and to diagnose the operating states of the extra-low voltage drives.
The new compact extra-low voltage drives are absolutely at home in warehouse technology and storage systems. Applications in stationary materials handling technology include roller and accumulating roller conveyors, belt and chain conveyors, lifting modules and corner transfer units, turning devices and rotary tables, trolleys, pallet transfer shuttles, vertical conveyors and hoists, stacking devices, container storage systems and sequencers, pushers, and additional stationary materials handling technology.
However, there are also applications for the new compact extra-low voltage drives in mobile materials handling technology, for example as simple shuttle travel drives and load handling devices, on storage and retrieval machines (SRS, automatic small parts warehouse), in sorters with a belt or tray, pallet transfer shuttles or automated guided vehicle systems.