10 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Custom Gearmotors

St. Charles, IL – With heightened focus on budgets and time to market, engineers continue to face a quandary when designing new electromechanical machines and equipment: whether to design “around” a standard off-the-shelf gearmotor or to specify a custom gearmotor meeting their exact requirements. In response to growing concerns on this issue, Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. has analyzed its customer interactions and relationships and produced a new white paper covering the “10 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Custom Gearmotors”.

“We’ve taken a non-Bison-specific approach in this white paper so that design engineers as well as OEM purchasing authorities will find it helpful, no matter what size or type of gearmotor they may use or who their supplier may be,” said John Morehead, Bison Gear vice president, strategic planning and marketing. “The most important finding, drawing on nearly 50 years experience, is the necessity to involve one’s gearmotor supplier’s application engineers as early as possible in the design process. Inevitably, that ensures the best overall machine performance, durability and cost position.”

Some of the other key issues covered in the white paper include the value of proprietary gearmotor specifications, reasonable lead time expectations for custom engineered prototypes, benefits of an expanding product portfolio, production scalability and value-added opportunities.

The new four-page white paper can be downloaded at BisonGear.com.

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.
www.BisonGear.com

IEC Right Angle Gearboxes from Groschopp

Groschopp Inc. introduces their new line of IEC Right Angle (RA) Gearboxes. The high performance industrial machine industry can now access Groschopp’s extensive supply of high quality, lightweight, modular IEC RA Gearboxes.

Groschopp’s new IEC RA Gearboxes have hollow out-put allow options for right, left or dual shaft configurations. All nine sizes are in stock and ready to ship in 48 hours or less.

• Nine sizes from 26 mm – 130 mm
• Input Power 0.06 to 7.5kW, 1/15 to 10 hp
• Torque Range 10 to 1050 Nm, 5 to 10,000 in-lbs
• Versatile, Compact Design
• Multiple Mounting Configuration
• High-Quality, Lightweight Aluminum Construction

Sizes RA26 through RA90 have high thermal capacity die-cast aluminum housings, designed for exceptionally efficient heat dissipation, resulting in maximum torque output in a highly compact package. The larger sizes, RA110 and RA130, are cast iron. All housings are powder-coated, for a durable corrosion-free finish.

Tower of power

The new line of gearboxes features:

• flexible product configurations for foot, flange and shaft mounting, with optional torque arm.
• industry standard IEC input flanges.
• permanent synthetic long-life lubrication (sizes RA26-RA90) yields a maintenance-free, highly reliable speed reducer.
• symmetrical hollow output shaft facilitates gearbox mounting and plug-in shafts for easy assembly and installation.
• quiet operation and optimum efficiency with ground finished worm shafts and precision machining.

Groschopp Inc.
www.groschopp.com

Bison Gear Launches New Web Site

St. Charles, IL – The new Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. web site offers immediate home page visibility of Bison’s extensive line of fractional horsepower AC and DC gearmotors, electric motors, gear reducers, drives and accessories. Bison Gear’s expanding video library has been added to the new site, along with white papers, featured new products and an ever-changing special “closeouts” section.

“In response to our web customers and channel partners, we’ve made it much easier to quickly find Bison products through linked summaries of our entire product range on the new home page, as well as our parametric search tools that enable visitors to find products based on type, voltage, speed, power, torque or gear ratio in any combination,” said Brenda Thiessen, Bison Gear marketing supervisor. “In addition, we have included global web ordering capability for over 550 standard Bison products which are supported with same day order fulfillment through our In-Stock, Instant-Ship (ISIS) program.”

Visitors to the new BisonGear.com can now easily link to Bison’s Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube social media sites and also sign up to receive Bison’s “Driving Force” newsletter.

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp
www.BisonGear.com

Bison Gear’s Inverter Duty Gearmotors

St. Charles, IL – Electric motors consume from 63% to 70% of the electricity used in American manufacturing. However, most motor efficiency efforts to date have focused on less than 10% of the total electric motor population: those motors greater than one horsepower. In response to customer desires to increase efficiency in equipment employing fractional horsepower electric motors, Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. introduces its new 107 series Verdant Duty™ gearmotors in 5 standard, off-the-shelf models. Rated at 1/20 horsepower (37.3 watt) at 230 volt, 60 Hz, 3-phase, they feature an operating range from 6 to 90 Hz to provide a 15:1 range of adjustable output speeds in applications requiring no maintenance.

The gearmotors feature totally enclosed, non-ventilated (TENV) AC motors constructed with special insulation systems to ensure long life when driven by compact, economic frequency inverters that convert conventional AC single phase to three phase power. Employing integral gear reducers with gear ratios from 6.7:1 to 95.5:1 they offer output speeds from 368 to 1.7 RPM with output torques up to 100 in-lbs. (11.3 N-m).

The new Verdant Duty™ AC gearmotors will be introduced at the annual meeting of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association (IMA) at the Hotel InterContinental in Chicago on December 5. “Environmental Sustainability” is a key topic on the agenda. With over 4,000 members, IMA is the oldest and largest state manufacturers’ association in the U.S.

The RoHS compliant gearmotors feature UL, cRUus and CE recognition and are supported by Bison’s Innopreneurial™ application and design engineering capabilities to customize standard models to meet specific OEM needs. Customers’ shortened supply chain requirements are fulfilled by the units being manufactured in Bison Gear’s St. Charles, Illinois facilities to the highest quality standards to ensure dependable, long-life operation.

www.BisonGear.com