Safe high-tech gearboxes for the future of medical technology
Digitalization and automation are opening up new, revolutionary possibilities for diagnostics, treatment and care in the healthcare sector. We are an experienced, long-standing industry partner and have a high level of engineering and application expertise in the field of medical technology. Our innovative precision gearboxes and drive systems offer you maximum precision, safety, hygiene and reliability and form the basis for high-performance, efficient and fail-safe medical technology devices.
Reliable, durable gear systems of outstanding quality
In the healthcare sector, automation systems work with or even directly on the patient and must be designed accordingly. Our gearboxes meet the high requirements of medical technology perfectly. They position with absolute precision in the hundredths of a millimetre range, offer the necessary high safety reserves so that patients and operating personnel are not harmed, are easy to clean and disinfect, require minimal maintenance and score points with their constant, low-noise operating performance.
The advantages at a glance:
- Precisely executed movements for positioning accurate to the millimeter
- Large safety reserves for optimum patient protection
- Hygiene-friendly design for easy cleaning and disinfection
- Extremely quiet operation for maximum patient comfort
- Compact design for easy integration even where space is limited
- Easy cable routing thanks to hollow shaft gears
- Modular design for maximum flexibility
- Minimal design and assembly effort
Gearboxes from Nabtesco: As individual as life itself
Standard "off-the-shelf" products do not always fit the bill. If there are special requirements, for example in terms of performance, safety, hygiene, surface treatment or installation space, we work closely with you to create customized gearbox solutions that are perfectly tailored to your application.
Our range of services:
- Reliable drive concepts for modern medical devices
- The broadest and deepest product portfolio in the precision gearbox sector on the market
- Everything from a single source: from compact, backlash-free strain wave gears to extremely rigid cycloidal gears
- Hollow shaft gears for the construction of encapsulated systems
- Robot gearboxes from the global market leader (market share of over 60%)
- Digital gearbox and drive solutions
- Innovative concepts for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance
- Torque range from 4.5 to 70,000 Nm
- Standard and customized special solutions
- Economical plug-and-play solutions
The plus in safety
Safety is the top priority in medical technology. If even one component does not function properly, this can have serious consequences under certain circumstances. For this reason, all installed machine parts, assemblies and components must have high safety reserves and comply with numerous legal standards, regulations and directives - and prove this in extensive tests and test scenarios before initial commissioning. You can play it safe with our gearboxes. Thanks to their high overload capacity, excellent performance, high-quality workmanship and low susceptibility to faults, they guarantee optimum protection.
Maximum safety:
- Emergency stop torque of up to 500 % of the rated torque (optionally up to 800 %)
- High tilting rigidity
- High torsional rigidity
- High resistance to impact and overload
- Resistant to cracking and breakage
- Insensitive to vibrations
- Less susceptibility to faults thanks to simplicity approach (reduction of complexity in the overall system)
- Constant operating behavior
- 100% testing before delivery
Download: Whitepaper "Robots in the service of the patient"
Smart solutions, innovative technologies and robot-based systems are increasingly finding their way into the healthcare sector and are driving the shift towards digital, intelligent and personalized medicine. Find out what role drive technology plays and how precision gears influence the quality of patient care in our white paper "Robots in the service of patients".
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Our solutions for medical technology
Plug & Play
Cycloidal gear with solid shaft
Modular gearboxes with high power density
Plug & Play
Cycloidal gear with hollow shaft
Maximum flexibility when mounting the motor
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
Whether diagnostics, therapy or research: thanks to ttheir outstanding features – precision, dynamics, reliability and smooth running - our gearboxes ensure safe, precise and efficient processes and successfully advance automation in medical technology. They are an ideal solution for positioning, handling or adjustment in numerous applications in the medical sector. The cycloidal gears and strain wave gears contribute to more precise and faster diagnostic procedures and are an important building block for process, efficiency and cost optimization as well as for improving patient comfort and care.
Applications:
- Imaging procedures such as X-ray or ultrasound (including C-arm)
- Patient handling systems
- Internal transportation in hospitals
- Patient couches, hospital beds and operating tables
- Surgical robots and surgical microscopy
- Robot-assisted rehabilitation devices
- Laboratory automation
- Exoskeletons
Innovation partner for medical technology
Medical technology is one of the most innovative and fastest-growing sectors. Questions of progress and the future have always shaped the thoughts and actions of those involved, paving the way for new developments and findings. We know exactly what the challenges are and are at your side as a competent, reliable partner.
We are your problem solver:
- Experienced, long-standing automation partner for medical technology
- Safe, reliable and quiet precision gearboxes in a hygiene-friendly design
- High level of engineering and application expertise
- Absolute reliability thanks to 100% testing
- Verification by independent institutes and laboratories
- Cooperation with universities, technical colleges and research institutes
- Compliance with all safety-related regulations, guidelines and test specifications
- Implementation of specific test scenarios for individual requirements
- Development of complete process plans including quality system, assembly concept, supply chains, labeling and packaging
- Rapid solution finding
- Individually developed, produced in series
