Application engineering
Our engineers will be proud to participate in your success!
We work with a variety of customers and applications, from machine-tool to robotics. Let us guide you!
Every project is unique - but we know where to look!
When it comes to getting the best levels of safety while respecting your financial budget or available space, you'll enjoy working with us.
During product development, design issues are often hard to detect but with the right tools they become obvious and easy to resolve. Gear software have become extremely reliable and in the vast majority of cases what works on screen works in real-life.
Reckon can help accelerating your product development and ensuring the design is correct from the beginning.
Using Romax Enduro, we can analyze new machinery, including gears, bearings and other components like pulleys, wheels or racks, while still in the design phase. This analysis helps identify areas for improving performance and reliability.
Our application engineers are the most qualified to support your needs, with experience on how machine components are interrelated.
When it comes to getting the best levels of safety while respecting your financial budget or available space, you'll enjoy working with us.
We check each and every component
We can recommend the smartest combination of gearbox ratio, pinion number of teeth and module, as well as the rack prcision and hardness, to maximize the lifespan and performance of the entire system. If you are working on a design featuring a pulley-and-belt system, we will be happy to help you define the right ratio between the pulleys so the gearbox lasts longer and works better.
Each component inside the gearbox will have a different lifespan when a certain ratio is used instead of another. the screen copies below and on the right illustrate how deep our enginners go when they take care of your application engineering.
The table below show the lifespan and condition of each gear in the customer application. The output shaft pinion and the rack can be added to this simulation, in order to find the best possible choice.
The table below show the lifespan and condition of each internal bearing of the prescribed gearbox in the customer application.
If your application is already equipped with additional bearings, we'll include them in the system so all lifespans take their presence into account.
Why you should always use our free assistance rather than selecting your gearbox from a website or a catalog:
Standard catalog ratings are honest and secure. However a planetary stage does not have only one torque rating, and catalog ratings ignore the way you plan to use the gearbox:
- Gears are extremely sensitive to misalignment : any load on the shaft will have a dramatic influence on the lifespan of the internal gears, or on the torque acceptable for a certain duration (see our dedicated article inthe knowledge center)
- Torque ratings, speed, vibration, temperature, number of reversals and lifespan are interrelated. The torque which is acceptable for 20,000 hours is not the same as the one that a gearbox can accept for 50,000 or just 5,000 hours
- The choice of gearbox model will be different if you need the backlash to remain stable over the years, or if it's acceptable for you to have a higher backlash year after year.
- You can get the same acceleration and speed using diffent ratios combined with different number of teeth on the output pinion (or pulley diametre), however the machine will not behave the same way (stiffness and precision will differ) and its lifespan can easily double when the combination was selected by experts.
Our enginners will understand your needs and select the best configuration for your application.