Plant & special machinery
Plant running continuously does not forgive sensors that become a maintenance item themselves. Anyone wanting to measure torque used to buy slip rings, extra sealing points and calibration intervals along with it, which are exactly the items that cost money in maintenance.
At the same time the need for solid data keeps growing. Condition monitoring, process validation and the documentation of production steps all assume the actual load is known rather than estimated from motor current.
Because our measuring principle works without contact, there is neither abrasion nor an extra sealing point. In the service schedule the measuring point behaves like any piece of shaft: it simply does not appear there.
Torque measurement in drivelines and test benches
Turning standard components into measuring ones
Driveshafts, pumps and gear units can be turned into measuring components with no redesign. They report how hard they are actually working, instead of leaving the load to be inferred from nameplate figures and motor current.
Process monitoring in real time
The torque curve during a production step is a direct indicator of quality. Deviations show up in the curve before they show up in the part, and can be corrected before scrap is produced.
Validation and test bench
In product development the measurement delivers solid load profiles under real conditions. Performance limits become documentable instead of being estimated through safety factors.
What operations and design get out of it
No extra service intervals
No mechanical contact means no abrasion and no wearing parts to replace. The measuring point does not lengthen the service schedule.
Predictive maintenance
Torque creeping upward for the same job is an early sign of bearing or gearbox wear, long before a failure stops the plant.
Original equipment and retrofit
The sensors adapt to different shaft geometries. Existing plant can be made measuring after the fact, with no redesign of the driveline.
Measurement data for control
Because the reading arrives with no appreciable delay, the controller can react to load changes rather than log them afterwards.
Technical guide values
We match the actual design to your shaft geometry, load profile and installation.
Products suited to mechanical engineering
Precision torque flanges
High measuring accuracy at a sensible investment, the obvious choice for test benches.
View →StandardStandard torque shafts
For when the measuring point belongs in the driveline, not beside it.
View →SensorsTorque measurement
For applications with no room for an additional component.
View →MaintenanceMagnetic torque sensors for predictive gearbox maintenance
Read more →ManufactureContactless torque measurement: precision and efficiency in production
Read more →MountingWhat torque sensors bring to industrial bolting processes
Read more →A measuring task in mechanical engineering anfragen.
Shaft diameter, torque range, speed and installation are enough for a first feasibility assessment. If you want, we will stay with it from design through to validation in the field.