Make machine load visible

Machine manufacturers select drive components such as gears, couplings, motors and converters so as to ensure that the machines have the necessary torque available to them at the required operating speed. For cost reasons, increasingly lighter and smaller gears and couplings must transmit ever more power. This can lead to sudden, dangerous torsional vibration and even fatigue fractures.

Drive specialists know that after the second shaft fracture on identical machines – at the latest – it is time for torque measurements with strain gauges. The only way to measure static and dynamic loads over several weeks is by mechanical torque measurement at high frequency. Critical natural vibrations are also looked for at this time.

Also possible are:

• Overload monitoring
• Load collectives, e. g. according to the rainflow method
• Frequency & order analyses