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Optimizing machine tools
Modern machining centers and machine tools must meet increasingly demanding requirements. They are expected to operate with energy efficiency, precision, and safety while achieving ever-higher levels of performance. This is the only way for manufacturers and operators to secure their competitiveness.
Consequently, the demands placed on the components used in these machines are high. High-performance components and technological innovations are essential to achieve greater precision at higher rotational speeds while simultaneously ensuring process reliability and stability.
With innovative drive and clamping technology, JAKOB boosts your efficiency and product quality, while reliably ensuring maximum system availability and process reliability.
Backlash-free torque transmission
Torsionally rigid metal bellows couplings: Ideal for positioning drives with high accuracy requirements. They ensure exact process accuracy and precise motion control.
Vibration-damping elastomer couplings: Perfect for spindle drives. They increase machine availability, optimize performance, and reduce wear.
Torque-limiting safety couplings: Protect against torque overload – and thus against costly repairs and extended downtime – for maximum efficiency and operational reliability.
Protecting your investments
MS³ motor spindle protection system: Protects machine tools and sensitive motor spindles in the event of a collision. This maintenance-free system provides protection in all axial directions and absorbs collision energy, preventing damage and production interruptions.
High-performance clamping technology
JAKOB clamping elements are used wherever workpieces or tools must be secured safely and with high clamping forces. Power clamping spindles are used, for example, in faceplates or jaw boxes and are available in mechanical or hydromechanical versions. They replace solid spindles, enabling the required clamping forces to be generated much more easily and efficiently—reliably and safely.
JAKOB – Your partner in machine tool manufacturing.
Typical areas of use & applications:
- Machine tools
- Tool changers
- Large-scale machine tools
- Lifting tables / Rotary tables / Rotary indexing tables
- CNC machining centers and robotic systems
- Face plates
- Milling machines / Gantry milling machines
- Jaw boxes
- Lathes / Turning centers
- Coolant pumps
- Grinding machines
- Positioning units
- Gear cutting machines
- Encoder drives
- EDM machines
- Chip conveyors
- Drilling machines / Boring machines
- Hydraulic power units
- Sawing machines / Cutting machines
- Servo motors / Servo drives
- Laser or waterjet cutting machines
- Spindle drives / Spindle protection / Collision protection
- Overload protection
- Backlash-free gearboxes
Examples of areas of application Machine tools
Use of a metal bellows coupling in a machine tool
Use of a power clamping spindle in the jaw box of a faceplate
Our Product Portfolio for Machine Tools
Metal Bellows Couplings
- backlash-free – torsionally rigid – highest precision
- high speeds – low moments of inertia
- for highly dynamic servo drives / reversing operation
- for precise, repeatable positioning
Elastomer Couplings
- Backlash-free – precise torque transmission
- Vibration-damping – robust
- For maximum smoothness and service life
- Plug-in – easy to install – blind mounting
Miniature Couplings
- compact – high power density – wide range of variants
- torsionally rigid metal bellows couplings
- vibration-damping elastomer couplings
- highly compensating Oldham couplings
Distance Couplings
- backlash-free – variable lengths up to 6 m
- no additional intermediate supports required
- high rotational speeds – low mass moments of inertia
- torsionally rigid or vibration-damping
Safety Couplings
- torque-limiting – adjustable – backlash-free
- for protection against collision and overload damage
- for maximum productivity and efficiency
- wide range of variants – for direct and indirect drives
Motor Spindle Protection
- detects tool collisions
- provides reliable protection against spindle damage
- increases machine availability
- enhances process reliability and efficiency
Power Clamping Spindles
- very high clamping forces
- maximum operational reliability
- long power-clamping stroke
- easy operation and installation
Power Clamping Nuts
- highest clamping forces – low tightening torques
- maximum operational safety
- simple manual operation
- compact design – flexible manufacturing
