Components in machine tools are exposed to rough operating conditions. Hot chips significantly compromise the service life of cables and hoses. In the medium term, this leads to machine failures and, as a result, expensive downtimes. For every challenge in the machine tool area, igus® offers laboratory-tested solutions that increase your machinery's reliability and reduce the amount of maintenance work. They include energy chains and cables that are used in CNC machining centers, milling machines or grinding machines, for example. Maintenance-free and self-lubricated bearings are used in door-adjusting mechanisms in machine tools, for example. And smart plastics from igus® are used in machine tools in order to avoid unforeseen failures and plant shutdowns.
Ready-to-install complete systems
2Sealed tight & cost effective: new chip protection
3Lean Assembly: easy installation
4Energy efficiency on long travel distances
5Energy supply for rotary applications
6Industry 4.0 with smart plastics
7 8Low cost automation and robotics
9Self lubricating and maintenance-free bearing technology
10Read our new magazine for the machine tool industry to find out more about motion plastics® products for your modern machine tools and many other ways of lowering your costs and improving the performance of your equipment.
Ready-to-connect harnessed e-chainsystems®
Everything from one source
Reduce process costs
Openable from both sides
More usable storage space
Greater stability
Quick interior separation
Universal strain relief
Long service life
Save electricity and operating costs on moving automation
Save electricity and operating costs
Ideal for high fill weights and restricted spaces
Long service life of the system
Intelligent products predict their replacement date during ongoing operation
Greater safety
Reliability guaranteed
Fail-safe cables
Small radii for confined spaces.
Over 1345 types of cable from stock
More than 4,200 drive cables in accordance with 24 manufacturer standards in 7 different qualities
Reduce process costs
Combination of robolink® joints and motors is possible
Modular approach
Low cost
Low driving force due to the combination of rolling and sliding
Plastic instead of metal: Up to 40% more cost-effective than recirculating ball guide
In two simple steps to the 3D-printed, wear-resistant component
With direct display of prices
From quantity 1
In the igus® test laboratory, the largest one of its kind in the industry (2,750 m²), more than two billion test cycles are carried out on 107 test rigs every year. Extensive test databases are created in the process and even tests for individual customers are possible upon request.
Leak test in the chip drum
After 251,900 cycles, only 2.7 g of chips were found in the interior of the RX tube.
Media-resistance test
Test of energy chains for their resistance to diverse media. Result: They function perfectly after 100,000 cycles.
Test our energy supply systems and bearing technology for machine tools yourself: improve the performance of your equipment and lower costs at the same time.
