Examples of successful applications in the machine tool industry

Hanging, upright or linear: Our closed energy chains have been proving their worth in Cloos welding systems for years.

For the energy supply to the main spindle of this milling and drilling machine, the manufacturer relies on particularly tight RX energy tubes.

A guidelok e-chain is used on this lathe for a travel of up to 20 metres. It is perfect for long, unsupported travels in the swarf area.

ROMI, market leader in the Brazilian machine and plant industry, has been supplied by us for 15 years. Our e-chains and chainflex cables are used in a new machining centre.

A readychain system with a total of eight energy chains guarantees safe energy supply to all six spindles of this lathe from Gildemeister Italiana S.p.A.

These compact CAD/CAM milling machines produce prototypes quickly, precisely and with high quality. 15 drylin miniature guides and dryspin lead screw nuts were installed here.

Chip and dirt require closed energy chain with a long service life in this system from lathe manufacturer FAT HACO.

Particularly dirty and abrasive conditions characterise the environment in knife cutting systems. e-chains in combination with an autoglide system are used here.

This CNC machine mainly mills polystyrene, which clogs all surfaces and gaps. The customer therefore uses drylin linear units today.

This polishing milling machine is used in the field of "prosthetics". Fine dust settles on the linear guides during milling. drylin linear units now provide a remedy.

The spaces between threaded rods quickly become clogged with dirt. The special dryspin lead screw nuts maintain the performance of the machines thanks to their cleaning function.

Movable in all directions, multi-axis energy chain ensure endlessly pivoting axes. They prove themselves against heat, flying sparks and extreme dirt accumulation.

Our energy chains and chainflex cables, which travel in a very confined space in the machine, supply energy to the fastest servo punching and bending machines in the world.

In the vertical EMAG turning centres of the VMC series, chainflex single-core cables are used to supply power to the spindle. The challenges: Limited space, high chip volume and oil.

Up to fifty servo axes in a confined space, high dynamics, high demands on service life and small bend radius. These are the requirements of this automatic drilling machine for our energy chain and chainflex cable.

Achieving a vertical stroke of over one metre and a pivot range of 270° in a limited installation space was possible with this application in the grinding head of a gear grinding machine.

In this application, a two-spindle horizontal machining centre was equipped with very quiet and low-vibration energy supply systems.

This press automation system requires extremely space-saving energy supply at high speed.

A space problem was solved here with a simple trick: only 20cm installation height was available, too low for a conventional solution with an e-chain.

Two e-chains run side by side in a machine tool from machine manufacturer Yamazaki Mazak Corp. and enable energy to be supplied in a very small installation space.

Bystronic uses a 100% recycled energy chain as standard in the ByBend Star 120. The heavy-duty cable guide enables a CO₂ reduction of up to 28%.

Esmatec GmbH uses maintenance-free lead screws and flanged lead screw nuts in its first fully automatic edge milling machine "e-master", which reduce the assembly costs of the machine and increase its service life.

Top condition even after nine years - pre-fitted energy supply systems are used in these precision machines under aggressive environmental conditions.

24 hours a day, seven days a week, a closed R4 type energy tube is in operation in a friction stir welding machine from Grenzebach Maschinenbau GmbH.

The DMF 200|8 milling machine from DMG Mori achieves milling speeds of up to 20,000rpm. Energy chains of the E4Q series reduce vibrations in the machine.

Every spindle in this automatic lathe from Schütte has to be supplied with energy, signals and coolant. And that with more than 4.5 million cycles per year.

These machine tools for machining large components are often in use for 20-30 years with a required availability of at least 95%. Energy chains and chainflex cables are used here.

An e-chain of type E6 is used in this cutting machine. This must guarantee a planned machine service life of seven to 10 years, even under high loads in continuous operation.

The readychain systems are used in this positioning unit to safely guide the drive, measuring system and compressed air cable - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

This milling machine produces aluminium chips, wood chips and fine dust from composite materials. Energy chains and bearing technology are used here, which must always work reliably.

In order to save space, weight and time when completing its machine tools, DVS Universal Grinding GmbH relies on pre-fitted energy chains.

An extremely smooth-running chain enables this CNC machine to work with precision. A simple design minimises installation and maintenance costs.

With pre-fitted readychain energy supply, the company receives everything from a single source and directly from the manufacturer. This saves assembly time and costs.

The E4/4 light energy chain offers compact external dimensions and a very robust design. The readychain system saved the customer assembly time and costs and made installation considerably easier.

By replacing metallic bearings with iglidur plastic bearing, Deckel Maho Gildemeister was able to achieve cost savings of over 50 per cent on its machine tools.

This XXL waterjet cutting system has impressive dimensions with a travel of 32x5 metres. Energy supply systems support the precise movement of the two 3D cutting heads.

Parker EME uses drylin guide systems in its linear actuator "LCB". They are extremely robust, have optimum wear and friction properties and require no lubrication.

The SPEEDMAX bending machine series combines an extremely high cycle performance with minimal strokes. Due to the exceptionally high load, the customer now relies on robust iglidur plain bearings.

Today, lightweight, robust and lubrication-free polymer bearings are installed in a wide variety of places in machine tools and machining centres. They always work reliably despite the many movement cycles of the machines.

This laser cutting machine is characterised by high travel speeds and accelerations. Here, energy chains operate with both dynamism and robustness.