Gearboxes for the highest demands in machine tool construction
Precision is a top priority in machine tool manufacturing. After all, blanks, workpieces and tools need to be positioned with micrometer precision to ensure high production quality and efficiency. Our gearboxes have been used in a wide variety of machine tools for decades and have proven themselves millions of times over. They meet the highest accuracy requirements, ensure enormous increases in production efficiency and at the same time improve the cost-effectiveness of machine tools many times over - features that are valued by leading manufacturers in the automotive industry and numerous other sectors worldwide.
Micrometer-precise positioning
Our cycloidal gears and strain wave gears are technologically state-of-the-art and easily meet the increasing demands in machine tool construction for accuracy, rigidity, compactness, flexibility and networking. They offer a high power density, are characterized by high reduction ratios, are easy to integrate and require little space. Users benefit from dynamic and high-precision positioning, working parallel to machining time and complete machining in a single clamping operation.
The advantages at a glance:
- Outstanding positioning and repeat accuracy
- High torsional and bending rigidity
- High speeds and accelerations
- Reliable positioning even under changing load conditions
- High reduction ratios and consequently high motor speeds
- Fail-safe thanks to high shock load capacity (up to 500 % of the rated torque)
- Housing rotation for faster tool changes and easier assembly
- Space-saving design for a smaller machine footprint
- Modular design for maximum flexibility
- Easy integration and long service life
- Optimized energy consumption
- Greater cost-effectiveness thanks to processes parallel to machining time
The ideal choice for machine tools
Machine tools and robots are increasingly merging into one unit. As a specialist in precision gearboxes, world market leader in the field of robot gearboxes and established partner to the automation industry, we combine unique expertise and innovative strength to help shape the future of machine tool manufacturing.
Our range of services:
- High-reduction precision gearboxes - the most comprehensive and deepest product portfolio on the market
- Everything from a single source: from compact, backlash-free strain wave gears to extremely rigid cycloidal gearboxes
- High performance in the smallest of spaces
- Hollow shaft gears for routing cables and hoses
- Digital gearbox and drive solutions
- Economical plug-and-play solutions for the highest demands
- Innovative modular system
- Standard products from series production
- High degree of customer-specific customization
Cycloidal gears and strain wave gears: The precision dream team
Cycloidal gears and strain wave gears complement each other perfectly and together form a real dream team for robotics & automation. If the larger axes of a robot or machine are equipped with cycloidal gears and the smaller ones in the end effector area with strain wave gears, the best possible precision can be achieved from the overall linking of all axes.
Functional principle of cycloidal gears Functional principle of strain wave gears
Robots with the precision of a machine tool
When manufacturing workpieces, it all comes down to hundredths of a millimeter - a precision that most robots cannot achieve. With a Nabtesco add-on for robot control, it will be possible in future to increase robot accuracy by a factor of 9 and achieve a point or path accuracy of less than 0.1 millimeters. High-precision handling and machining tasks can thus be carried out robot-based with the precision of a machine tool. This offers maximum flexibility with the same quality.
Learn moreOur solutions for the machine tool industry
Plug & Play
Cycloidal gear with solid shaft
Modular gearboxes with high power density
Drive system with Mecanum wheel
Ideal for driverless transport systems
Component set
Cycloidal gear with solid shaft
Compact & precise: Ideal for robotics
Component set
Cycloidal gear with hollow shaft
Compact & precise: Ideal for robotics
Component set
Cycloidal gear with solid shaft
High speed in the tightest of spaces
Plug & Play
Strain wave gear with solid & hollow shaft
Incl. output & drive bearing + sealing system
Component set
Strain wave gear with solid & hollow shaft
Incl. smart sensors & artificial intelligence
Plug & Play
Strain wave gear with solid & hollow shaft
Complete systems for your automation
Areas of application
Our broad gearbox portfolio with a wide range of series, designs, sizes and mounting variants offers almost unlimited application possibilities. Whether CNC machine, machining center or flexible production cell: We will find the right gearbox solution for every application. If standard products from series production are not suitable, our development engineers will work closely with you to develop specially adapted, application-specific gearboxes that are precisely tailored to the requirements of your machine tool.
By the way: axes, tool changers or positioning tables equipped with Nabtesco gearboxes have comparable performance data to those with torque motors - with significantly less effort and lower costs!
Applications:
- Automatic tool changer (ATC)
- Robot-assisted handling systems
- Loading and unloading systems
- Chain and disk magazines
- Pallet changing systems (APC - Automatic Pallet Changer)
- Tool heads
- Tool tables
- Indexing and rotary tables
- Feeding systems
- Milling machines, drilling machines, sawing machines
- Grinding machines
- lathes
- B- and C-axes
- 4-axis machining centers, 5-axis machining centers
- Transfer systems for interlinking machine tools
Close and long-standing partner for machine tool manufacturing
New parts, components, materials, processes and procedures: The challenges in the manufacturing industry are constantly changing. The machine tool industry must respond to this. We have been supporting the industry for decades and therefore know what is important. Our gearbox and drive concepts provide innovative answers to key questions relating to automation, robotization and digitalization and support machine tool manufacturers on their way to greater productivity, quality, process reliability and cost efficiency.
We are your problem solver:
- Experienced innovation partner for the machine tool industry
- Established specialist for precision gearboxes
- World market leader in the field of robot gearboxes
- Industry-optimized gearbox and drive solutions
- Modular concepts and simple plug-and-play technologies
- Solutions for all areas of use, applications and axes
- Standard products and application-specific special gearboxes
- Customized gearboxes in series production (mass customization)
- Extensive engineering services
- Worldwide availability and fast delivery times
