Moving energy made smart

As a manufacturer and supplier of plastic components such as energy chains, cables and bearings, igus is also going through a digital development process and is increasingly orienting its products towards use in smart factories. The aim is to make the maintenance and repair of its plastics more efficient and cost-effective. Thanks to the newly developed isense products from igus, maintenance and repair are not only being focused on more intensively in industrial production; they also profit from digitisation and its advantages as do all other areas of production.
 

• Reduce maintenance costs
• Eliminate unplanned downtime
• cLong service life
• Increase equipment efficiency
• Save time – faster detection of the reasons for
• anomalies
• Reduce energy consumption
• Many Industry 4.0 components available from stock

The data concentrator (icom)

Compresses all sensor data for cost-effective IoT transmission to the igus server.

Sensors for e-chain movement and abrasion

EC. M: With measured values of acceleration, speed and temperature, a precise service life prediction for the actual operating conditions is possible.
EC. W: Enables the entire system to "learn" through detection of a defined amount of wear in per cent, thus enabling adaptation of the service life statements to the real operating conditions.

Sensor for glide bar wear

EC. T: The sensor measures the wear of the glide bar in long-lasting applications and reports the status to the icom module.

Non-contact measurement of e-chain wear

EC. I: Contactless measurement of the wear in the pin and bore connection for maintenance planning. Connects to the icom modules.

e-chains breakage detection

EC.B: The sensor detects a chain breakage at its initial stage and shuts down the system before an expensive system breakdown.

Breakage detection for two e-chains

For opposing or very long travel chains two sensors detect chain breakage in the initial stage and report to a common hat rail module.

Sensor for position-sensitive push/pull force measurement in e-chains

EC. PP: In the case of very long sliding applications, the EC. PP transmits defined position information in order to measure the push and pull forces in relation to the position with EC. P.

Push/pull force monitoring
 

EC. P: For 14 years, the measurement of push/pull forces has been preventing chain breakage and unplanned downtimes in the case of cranes equipped with e-chain systems all around the world.

Sensor for the chainflex cable service life

CF.Q: Detects an impending cable failure by measuring the electrical properties of a chainflex cable during operation.

Sensor for measuring tensile forces acting on cables

CF.P: Detects increased tensile forces acting on cables in e-chain systems and informs the customer in good time or shuts down the system.

Wear sensor for drylin T linear systems

DLT.W: Gives timely replacement recommendations for the sliding elements in drylin T carriages.

Wear measurer for iglidur® PRT slewing ring bearings

Gives timely replacement recommendations for the sliding elements in iglidur slewing ring bearings.

Wear measurement for sliding elements in drylin W linear systems

DLW.W: The drylin DLW.W sensor reports the wear of the sliding elements in drylin W linear systems.

Wear measurement integrated in plain bearing (isense plain bearing)

The new isense plain bearing sensor reports the wear of the plain bearing and enables the replacement before a possible failure of the system.

isense-stand-alone

isense offline

isense integration

isense online