Bauer Gear Motor GmbH

A large hospital complex can often resemble a small town in its size and complexity; many separate wards are joined by a narrow corridor system where the smooth transfer of supplies is often interrupted by busy doctors and nursing staff. One of Europe’s largest hospitals has solved the problem with an automated underground mono-rail that supplies medicine, food and linen with minimal effort and at low cost. Bauer geared motors drive the vehicles and operate the track points.

To support its existing product range, and to help make the marketplace more aware of the complete package solutions it offers for larger gearboxes, Bauer has launched a new Industrial Drive Applications service, which offers a huge range of torque figures and reduction ratios from a variety of gearing arrangements. The new service includes high-torque helical, bevel-helical and planetary gearboxes which are designed and specified in-house to deliver up to 1.5million Nm of torque.

Power transmission design is a moving discipline, one which requires practitioners to consider the challenges of tomorrow when designing the latest innovations for today. It is natural that design styles move on and that, as technologies develop and industries progress, standard solutions change and modernise.

For OEMs and design engineers one of the hardest decisions when specifying parts for a new machine is making the choice between bespoke or standard components. Bespoke solutions will require many extra hours of design, and additional manufacturing concerns, while standard components will always involve some degree of compromise. Fortunately, in the case of geared motors, there is now an answer to the dilemma from Bauer Gear Motors.