For long chain service life
Published on : Monday 28-10-2019
Regular maintenance and lubrication are essential to ensure low wear and extend the service life of a chain drive. More than two thirds of all chain failures can be avoided with proper relubrication. Which was reason enough for Munich-based chain manufacturer iwis to extend its chain-related portfolio to include a new, service-oriented product: Thanks to the use of a special applicator, the new CLA lubrication system from iwis (CLA = Chain Lubrication Application) permanently delivers lubricant to the chain drive and other components - and in this way ensures a long chain service life economically, cleanly and with absolute precision.
When developing the new lubrication system for chain drives, iwis Engineering, the in-house R&D department, concentrated on maintenance – The objective was to extend the service life of the chain by ensuring that the chain is lubricated properly. And the result is a highly efficient minimum quantity lubrication system. The special applicator, which is made from a high-performance material, acts as a reservoir via which small quantities of lubricant are continuously delivered to the employed chain drive at the precise locations where it is actually needed. This prevents the operating roller chain from not being supplied with enough lubricant and also prevents unnecessarily large volumes of oil from being dispensed onto the chain and its environment. An environmentally friendly, "green" solution that also lowers costs and reduces the risk of contamination of plant equipment.
The CLA pumps can be operated separately with time control or can be simply integrated in the machine´s PLC. The compact size simplifies the task of retrofitting the device in existing plant and machinery. Thanks to a pump pressure of up to 70 bar, the distributors are able to supply as many as 16 lubrication points with sufficient oil without contaminating the environment and wasting valuable lubricant. The special applicators, which are made from PU foam, are extremely robust and are available in many variants, including custom designs.
iwis is a leading supplier of precision chain systems for drive and conveyor applications. The company is active in the following fields:
• iwis motorsysteme makes chains and timing drives for the automotive industry.
• iwis antriebssysteme produces precision roller and conveyor chains for industrial applications in general machine engineering, plant engineering, the packaging, printing and food industries and conveyor technology.
• iwis smart connect makes housings and installation frames, as well as producing high-precision stamped/bent sheet metal parts, particularly for the fields of electrical connections, press-fit technology, IDC technology and MCS contact technology.
• THIEN eDrives: Electromobility and electric motors.
The family company was founded in 1916 and is now managed in the fourth generation by Johannes Winklhofer.
iwis has a global workforce of more than 2,100 and aims to achieve a turnover of 500 million euros in 2019. Besides its production plants in Germany (Munich, Landsberg, Wilnsdorf, Sontra, Kaufbeuren and Rieden) and in China, the USA and the Czech Republic, it has subsidiaries in various European and overseas countries, including Brazil, the UK, France, India, Italy, Canada, Korea, Switzerland, Singapore and South Africa. iwis is represented at a total of 45 locations worldwide.
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Photo1: Dual composition of the CLA lubrication system from iwis.
Photo2: Valuable lubricant savings due to the particularly resistant iwis-applicator
