Delivered to the machine just in time

• What was needed: series 5150 energy chains,
• Requirements: no dust in the chain joints despite chips flying around.
• Sector: wood industry
• Success for the customer: due to the nature of the energy chain, no dust enters its chain joints, regardless of whether the model is open or closed.

When the three parallel milling and drilling units move in a woodworking linear robot, power supplies and signal cables are not the only items to be guided. Cooling media and compressed air for the pneumatic drives and actuators also require guidance in addition to chip suction. The suction hose on the BIMA P 980 has a diameter of 250mm.

Flying chips and wood dust place special demands on energy chains. A critical point is the fine dust that must not enter the chain joints.

Even if the machine is working with flying chips, igus® energy chains meet these requirements, whether the e-chains® are installed in an open or closed form (openable energy tubes, for example). Thanks to the smooth outer contour, no wood dust, no matter how fine, can get into the encapsulated or closed stop-dogs. So IMA can use off-the-shelf products.

At first glance, the 40,000 different products in this range may seem confusing.B ut they offer the user the enormous advantage of not worrying about the energy chain during design, since he can be sure that there is a suitable series for his specific application profile. In most applications, IMA uses e-chains® from the E2 and E4 series. But in some cases, special designs and variants have already been implemented.