Hydraulic direct drive main Hägglunds, a part of Bosch Rexroth, has formally opened a brand new hydraulics laboratory in Mellansel, Sweden. Its techniques comprise a hydraulic motor and flexibly positioned drive unit, overseen by a management and monitoring system, and they’re extensively utilized in mining in purposes equivalent to giant apron feeders, bucketwheel reclaimers and conveyors.
The corporate acknowledged: “This funding represents a serious step ahead, reinforcing our dedication to innovation in direct drive techniques. Overlaying an space of 1,500 sq. metres, the brand new laboratory contains 4 newly geared up take a look at cells and a model new pump room, in addition to a state-of-the-art, newly developed management system, enabling us to check our Hägglunds motors at full scale.”
“The pump room is the guts, and the management system is the mind. Collectively, they provide us solely new capabilities to check, measure, and produce the information our prospects must make their funding selections,” says Daniel Kajhager, Head of Analysis and Growth.
The laboratory can be engineered for important vitality effectivity, enabling financial savings of 200 MWh per 12 months, and supplies a future-proof platform to develop options for trade wants we could not even concentrate on but.
Key options of the brand new laboratory embody full-scale and modular testing with 4 newly geared up take a look at cells for versatile motor setups. A brand new management system delivers actual information for AI techniques and computational fashions; whereas the ability it says is ergonomic & secure by design being a purpose-built atmosphere guaranteeing a secure and environment friendly workflow for the workforce.
Karl Lindblom, VP at Hägglunds, acknowledged: “Innovation requires the proper atmosphere – that’s exactly what we’re constructing right here.”
