Drives Technology: Placing Power Where it's Needed

摘要

Often overlooked, but a critical component of most machines, a drive system involves converting raw energy into useful work—usually motion. Mining shovels and draglines need to turn and travel, conveyors need to run, mills must rotate, crushers reciprocate. The one thing all of these have in common is a drive system, whether or not it uses gears.Drive technology is high technology, with tight tolerances needed to minimize noise, maximize efficiencies and optimize operating economics. Little wonder, then, that German companies are at the forefront here, with the country's engineering and manufacturing traditions combining to produce state-of-the-art drive systems for every conceivable mining-sector application.