Industrial gearboxes have a wide range of applications and play an important role in any plant and equipment. The gearbox is the driving heart of any device or machine. Therefore, it is very important to understand the reliability of the gearbox. Because, today, a failure due to a faulty gearbox is completely undesirable in terms of money and time. Therefore, the reliability of the gearbox is very important to ensure that a given gearbox will operate for its design life. China's leading gearbox manufacturers such as Tork Drive strive to provide highly reliable gearboxes and geared motors.
Highly reliable gearboxes and geared motors - Tork Drive
The reliability of a gearbox is the probability that a gearbox will adequately perform its intended function for a specified period of time or operate without failure in a specified environment.
We at Tork Drive have developed a wide range of industrial gearboxes such that all components within the gearbox are engineered for optimum strength. We manufacture components with the required enduring strength to international standards for gears, shafts and bearings, with due care in the selection of materials and their controlled heat treatment processes to ensure gearbox reliability. Here are the top 6 maintenance tips for industrial gearboxes.
Designing gearboxes is like an art to us
When faced with the challenge of designing a new gearbox, we have several suitable calculations that can be used to size components. In general, these methods express the maximum effective stress in the component and the allowable stress of the component. The factor of safety is considered to be the ratio of the allowable stress to the effective stress. The stress used for actual strength assessment is called "effective stress", and the maximum stress that the material can withstand is the allowable allowable stress. The allowable stress depends on the number of load cycles. This follows the idea that part failure is caused by stress changes and leads to the SN curve for the chosen material. Therefore, the safety factor depends on the number of load cycles. SN curves for specific materials are based on tests performed. In these tests, samples are exposed to alternating loads and load cycles until failure is recorded. These duty cycles are converted into planned hours.
The probability of failure is application dependent, each application requiring a different safety factor based on operating time. Therefore, application research is one of the important parameters that should be considered when designing or proposing a gearbox for a specific application. Therefore, Tork Drive pre-sales team is always eager to visit customers, observe and study their applications, and recommend the most suitable gearbox for them.
Due to the competitiveness today, many local manufacturers are offering industrial gearboxes at very low prices. To achieve low prices, they compromised on the reliability of the components and kept them below the level for which they were designed for the required safety. Minimizing costs is one of the most important requirements in the development process. In order to meet the pricing requirements of various industries without compromising reliability and quality, Tork Drive aims to optimize the design of key components, the first key component usually determines the service life of the entire gearbox, so we always design like this Highest safety factor for key components. Gears in Tork Drive transmissions are designed with material strength values associated with major failure modes such as pitting or root fracture. And over-engineering all unnecessary components adds to the cost of the gearbox. In this way, Tork Drive maintains an effective balance between part designs and is able to provide cost-effective products such as planetary gearboxes, geared motors and other transmission products with high quality and high reliability. It has sufficient safety, low noise and high efficiency.
