With the smart plastics igus has developed intelligent
machine components, which monitor themselves during the operation. An early
warning system consisting of sensors and digital communication thereby expands
the world's largest modular system for lubrication-free and maintenance-free
linear guides. The smart drylin guide is easy to retrofit and increases the
customer's safety against failure.
Digitised and networked process sequences in drive technology
promise a high potential for reducing machine downtimes, particularly when
combined with high-performance plastics for the motion. The smart plastics from
igus combine both and expand the customer's ability to provide predictive
maintenance. Through continuous measurements and
the calculations using the parameters of the system as well as the thousands of
test data from the igus test laboratory, it is possible to also reliably
predict the smooth functioning of the smart plastics in the future while in
real operation. Part of this
comprehensive range is the intelligent drylin linear guide, which can be very
easily retrofitted.
Smart
linear guide makes maintenance easy
To make the products "smart", the dry
operating drylin bearings are equipped with sensors and a special module, the
isense DL.W. This constantly monitors the abrasion of the dirt-resistant and
dust-repellent plain bearings and determines the wear limit by which a bearing
must be replaced. The status data are passed on via wireless to the user, who
is able to intervene at the right time from anywhere. The isense DL.W as a
lightweight and robust plastic element is ideally suitable for retrofitting as
well as for a variety of moving applications in which linear guides are used,
from the packaging machine to the machine tool. Furthermore, the icom module,
which collects, processes and relays the data, serves as a central
communication unit. The user can take over the monitoring with the terminal
device of his choice and can thus always carry out maintenance, repair and
replacement at the optimum moment. Because, if maintenance work has been
carried out after rigid intervals, the new smart plastics can be used to
determine the individual remaining service life of the component and always the
best maintenance date. Particularly in the case of the long-lasting components
made of Tribo polymers, the full utilisation of the online computable life
cycle pays off.
The intelligent drylin guide is part of the overall
range of intelligent products, including the intelligent energy chain and
intelligent cable. For interested customers, igus has launched a pilot tester
programme.
You can find more information on it at: http://www.igus.in/wpck/16723/N16_01_51?playlistid=90
About igus® India
igus® operations in India started in the year 1998
with head quarters in Bangalore. igus offers widest range of products that
includes polymer bearings, igubal® Linear Motion Bearings , Plain Bearings and Bushing Accessories etc. which enable them to
serve the whole industrial establishments in India from a small work shop to
huge industrial establishments.