Hygienic gearboxes for food technology
The level of automation in food technology is constantly increasing. Innovative robots, intelligent sensor solutions, advanced gripper technologies, smart image processing systems and adaptive control systems are expanding the application horizon and opening up new possibilities. We are a long-standing partner to the food industry, an experienced automation specialist and the global market leader in the field of robot gearboxes, combining unique industry, technology and application expertise. Our gearbox and drive solutions are state-of-the-art, exceptionally powerful, extremely reliable and easy to clean and support food technology in meeting the growing demands for productivity, efficiency, availability, food safety, hygiene and sustainability.
High performer for automated food handling
Our gearbox and drive solutions ensure precise movements and accurate positioning and have long been regarded as a key technology for efficient drive concepts in food technology. The cycloidal gears and strain wave gears enable high speeds and accelerations, work reliably even in 24/7 operation and are characterized by excellent repeatability and path accuracy. Even with very fast and abrupt movements, they ensure fast and precise gripping and depositing. Further plus points are the compact design, minimal maintenance requirements and easy cleaning.
The advantages at a glance:
- Extreme precision (strain wave gears: absolute zero backlash, cycloidal gearbox: hysteresis loss < 0.5 arcmin)
- High repeatability and path accuracy
- Very dynamic: Fast acceleration and deceleration
- High shock load capacity (500 % of the rated torque)
- Hygiene-friendly design
- Compact design - ideal for small installation spaces
- Simple integration, intuitive handling
- Absolute reliability with a long service life
- Low-wear operation
- High process reliability
Focus on performance, efficiency and hygiene
Process optimization, productivity increases, error minimization, cost reductions: The challenges in food technology are many and varied. With Nabtesco, you have a strong partner at your side. Our innovative technologies set standards and help you to achieve your goals! Whether production, processing, handling, logistics or packaging: we have the right gear and drive solution for every application in the food industry.
Our range of services:
- The broadest and deepest product portfolio in the precision gearbox sector
- Everything from a single source: from compact, backlash-free strain wave gears to extremely rigid cycloidal gearboxes
- Flexible modular product system with complete scalability from 7 to 70,000 Nm
- Application-optimized gearboxes for processing cheese, fruit, meat, baked goods, sweets or frozen goods
- Innovative technologies in a hygienic design
- Powerful robot gearboxes for high-speed handling and robot-assisted positioning
- User-friendly plug-and-play concepts for food technology
- Large selection of hollow strain wave gears
- Digital gearbox and drive solutions
- High level of customer-specific customization
Precision in a hygienic design
For hygiene-critical applications in food technology, we offer gearboxes with a particularly hygienic design. Smooth surfaces and a rounded gearbox housing ensure that dirt cannot accumulate and liquids can drain away unhindered. This minimizes the risk of contamination and ensures quick and efficient cleaning. On request, we can supply them with special coatings or filled with food-friendly H1 lubricants.
Get in touch with us!Our solutions for food technology
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Cycloidal gear with solid shaft
Modular gearboxes with high power density
Plug & Play
Cycloidal gear with hollow shaft
Maximum flexibility when mounting the motor
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Cycloidal gear with solid shaft
Compact & precise: Ideal for robotics
Component set
Cycloidal gear with hollow shaft
Compact & precise: Ideal for robotics
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Cycloidal gear with solid shaft
High speed in the tightest of spaces
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Strain wave gear with hollow shaft
The simplest variant of the strain wave gear
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Strain wave gear with solid & hollow shaft
Incl. output bearing
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Strain wave gear with solid & hollow shaft
Incl. output & drive bearing + sealing system
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Strain wave gear with solid & hollow shaft
Incl. smart sensors & artificial intelligence
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Strain wave gear with solid & hollow shaft
Complete systems for your automation
Drive system with Mecanum wheel
Ideal for driverless transport systems
Areas of application
Our high-precision gearboxes are used in a wide variety of production and processing operations in the food industry - whether sorting, filling, loading, portioning, picking, packing, palletizing or transporting. Thanks to their high precision and power density, they guarantee reliable processes and are ideal for all handling and positioning applications that need to combine good cleanability, excellent performance and high efficiency.
Applications:
- Industrial robots
- cobots
- Cutting machines
- Positioning machines
- Filling systems
- Handling and positioning systems
- Feeding systems
- Packaging machines
- Pick-and-place systems
- Delta robots
- SCARA robots
- Palletizing robots
- Automated storage and transport systems
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Your gearbox specialist for food technology
Hungry for automation? Come to the land of milk and honey of precision gearboxes! We offer you broad industry know-how, comprehensive robotics and automation expertise, a deep understanding of applications and a high level of engineering competence, and realize high-performance gearbox and drive solutions for robots, cobots, automation systems and peripheral systems. Benefit from our experience and expertise!
We are your problem solver:
- The world's largest manufacturer of precision gearboxes
- Long-standing partner to the food technology industry
- Automation specialist with over 35 years of experience
- World market leader in the field of robot gearboxes
- Innovative technologies for dynamic high-precision positioning
- Customized gearbox and drive solutions
- Support with design and project support
- Extensive engineering services
- High availability and scalability
- All-inclusive package for your automation
