Intelligent Solutions for Production and Maintenance

Dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion of pro­duc­tion is also fun­da­men­tal­ly chang­ing the field of main­te­nance and repair. Smart net­work­ing of plant and machin­ery enables the record­ing and eval­u­a­tion of large amounts of per­for­mance data and there­fore con­tin­u­ous sta­tus mon­i­tor­ing and pre­dic­tive main­te­nance. Cur­rent devel­op­ments and the lat­est inno­va­tions are dis­played by the indus­try every two years at Under­håll in Swe­den, North­ern Europe’s lead­ing spe­cial­ist exhi­bi­tion for indus­tri­al main­te­nance and repairs. Nord Dri­vesys­tems will also be exhibit­ing and, from 13 to 16 March 2018 in Gothen­burg, it will be pre­sent­ing intel­li­gent dri­ve units, smart solu­tions for net­worked pro­duc­tion, as well as inno­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies and new products.
In an appli­ca­tion test area, the dri­ve spe­cial­ist from Bargte­hei­de is demon­strat­ing the dri­ve unit of the future as well as the options for Cloud links and for Indus­try 4.0. Nord dri­ve units can be net­worked, oper­ate autonomous­ly and can be scal­able with regard to func­tion and per­for­mance. Thanks to fre­quen­cy invert­ers with inte­grat­ed PLCs they con­tin­u­ous­ly record the dri­ve and appli­ca­tion data, eval­u­ate all of the avail­able sen­sor and actu­a­tor data, take over tasks inde­pen­dent­ly and pro­vide opti­mised diag­nos­tic facil­i­ties. The dri­ve units com­mu­ni­cate their sta­tus data via the con­trol sys­tem or direct­ly into the secure Cloud. From there, they are avail­able all over the world for eval­u­a­tion and analy­sis. Thus, the entire sys­tem of Nord dri­ves can be mon­i­tored. This enables Pre­dic­tive Main­te­nance, an increase in plant avail­abil­i­ty, reduc­tion of main­te­nance and repair costs as well as opti­mised coor­di­na­tion of ser­vic­ing. Future-ori­ent­ed opti­mi­sa­tion can also be car­ried out thanks to sta­tus monitoring.
In addi­tion, in Swe­den Nord will present prod­uct inno­va­tions as well as effi­cient solu­tions for vari­ant and cost opti­mi­sa­tion. Nord Dri­vesys­tems has extend­ed its Maxxdrive indus­tri­al gear unit series: Two addi­tion­al sizes (rat­ed torques from 15 kNm and 20 kNm) as well as extrud­er flanges sup­ple­ment the mod­u­lar series and pro­vide new solu­tions for heavy duty appli­ca­tions. For demand­ing con­di­tions NSD Tuph has been devel­oped – a sur­face treat­ment which makes alu­mini­um geared motors as resis­tant as stain­less steel prod­ucts and which is con­sid­er­ably more effec­tive than anti-cor­ro­sion paint­ing. Prod­ucts treat­ed with NSD Tuph are easy to clean and resis­tant to acids, alka­lis and cor­ro­sion. One option for vari­ant and cost opti­mi­sa­tion is Logidrive. The stan­dard­ised geared motor vari­ants for intral­o­gis­tics and air­port appli­ca­tions are high­ly effi­cient. Thanks to Plug & Play tech­nol­o­gy they are extreme­ly main­te­nance-friend­ly and result in a con­sid­er­able reduc­tion of spare part stocks.
At Under­håll, Nord can be found in Hall 11, on stand B06.