Specialist drive engineering company SEW-Eurodrive will be launching four internationally recognised solutions that are ideal for mining applications at this year’s Electra Mining Africa.

SEW-Eurodrive general manager of communications Rene Rose believes Electra Mining provides the greatest degree of high-level exposure for the company’s range of new and existing solutions.

The theme for the SEW-Eurodrive stand this year will be ‘The Meeting Place’. “We would like to invite visitors to meet with us at our stand to discuss possible solutions for their specific application requirements. The stand promises to provide visitors with professional interaction from industry experts,” comments Rose.

This is in keeping with the company’s new business philosophy of providing customers with application solutions and automation for any area of their business.

Rose adds that daily presentations will also be held in conjunction with SAiMechE.

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The African mining sector continues to hold potential for tremendous growth. Electra Mining hosts the top leaders of the industry under one roof, making it the ideal stage for professional networking and generating new business leads,” she explains. In addition to mining, Electra Mining Africa also attracts other heavy industry visitors from all spheres.

SEW-Eurodrive will launch its maxolution business unit, girth gears, MOVI4R-U frequency inverters and MOVITRAC LTP-B frequency inverters at Electra Mining Africa 2014.

Maxolution
Maxolution is a new business unit which takes care of business from a consultant perspective. This service offers customers customised solutions based on their particular application requirements. The idea is that the customer comes to SEW-Eurodrive with their requirement of moving something from point A to B, and the mechatronic engineering Maxolution team will provide a solution that is best suited. Everything from planning, designing, engineering to the final finished product, as well as commissioning and after-sales service, is covered by Maxolution. Rose states that, in essence, Maxolution is a complete one-stop engineering solution for motion control.

Girth Gears
Girth gears are used to drive large, rotating systems such as dryers, rotary kilns or horizontal mills. The girth gears are installed around the circumference of these systems and transfer the drive torque from the gear motor to the rotary cylinder.

Rose states that traditional girth gears generally consist of two to four segments that are assembled together for processing. “This requires large and expensive machines for production, handling and heat treatment. The size of component parts also creates disadvantages with regard to casting and heat treatment.”

In contrast, SEW-Eurodrive girth gears are split into several identical segments in order to keep the com- ponent parts short and easy to handle. “SEW-Eurodrive uses Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) for girth gears, which boasts unmatched tensile strength, compared with other materials,” she adds.

MOVI4R-U Frequency Inverter
MOVI4R-U frequency inverters are the ideal solution for meeting basic drive technology requirements. Impressive features of this product series include an innovative operating concept and IP54 protection, which also enables installation outside a switch cabinet.

MOVITRAC LTP-B Frequency Inverter
MOVITRAC LTP-B frequency inverters are optimally matched to meet the requirements of applications outside a control cabinet. The higher power range of this unit makes it ideally suited to the mining industry. It has been designed and developed for controlling the speed of asynchronous and sychronous motors without encoders.

Hall 6 Stand J20