Success story
Sumitomo Drive Technologies
Monitoring of actuators for robotics applications
Together with our partner Sumitomo Drive Technologies , we are integrating our HCP-Sense-sensor technology into actuators for robotics applications to generate data for an enhanced performance.
The client
Sumitomo Drive Technologies has almost 100 years of expertise in drive technology. Known for its precision and reliability, its drives are integrated into plants and machines all around the world. The core competencies of the mechanical engineering company lie in the development and manufacture of customized industrial drives. Thus, these are in line with the latest technical standards and with the research of new processes and technologies that expands the industry-wide know-how. With the development of the TUAKA series, the next generation of precision actuators for robotics as well as similar fields of application is being created at the EMEIA headquarters (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa) in Markt Indersdorf near Munich.
Goal
In an actuator of the TUAKA series, the lubrication of the main bearing is optimized. To enable rapid evaluation of different variants, a test setup was set to measure the lubrication condition during operation. With this measurement technology, the lubrication can be further improved during the development process.
Implementation
In the first step, a feasibility study was conducted by HCP Sense on the main bearing of the TUAKA series. For this purpose, a prototype was equipped with impedance measurement technology.
To keep manufacturing effort low and to advance the project quickly, the insulation and contacting elements were designed in such a way that no structural modifications to the prototype were necessary.
The initial tests were carried out jointly with Sumitomo Drive Technologies at HCP Sense. This allowed the influence of various component properties on lubrication to be experimentally confirmed.
Furthermore, critical operating conditions were successfully recorded through measurement in order to achieve an even higher level of reliability.
Together, we are working on precisely estimating the remaining service life of the TUAKA actuators based on condition monitoring.
Many thanks to Sumitomo Drive Technologies for the close and excellent collaboration!
We are pleased that we were able to deliver important results and look forward to further joint projects.
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Our customer Knorr-Bremse relies on HCP Sense lubrication monitoring system to optimize the design of its bearing lubrication without expensive service life tests. HCP Sense innovative solution reduces testing efforts and increases development speed.
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