ElectroCraft can also design custom solutions - meeting specific application requirements - based on the MPW series. ElectroCraft is a notable exception and the company's expertise brings design, components and engineering optimization together to add a high level of value to the solution. ElectroCraft's engineers are constantly developing new products, which has opened the door to new markets requiring motors and geared motors with more demanding specifications, such as those needed to power mobile robots.Ī key challenge for the mobile robot design engineer is that while there are several reputable motor, gearbox, hub and wheel makers, there are few suppliers that offer an integrated solution. The company's geared motors are renowned for their smooth, controlled power delivery, with high starting torque. The company has over one million gear motors in service worldwide and years of experience in building custom solutions for its customers. Each part of the integrated product is designed to complement the others for a compact and high-power density solution that accelerates drivetrain design, and ensures high reliability, long life and minimal maintenance to the end user.Īn integrated solution built on a mobile power heritageĮlectroCraft offers a range of highly reliable, cost-effective, industrial-strength products that have evolved and expanded over time to become ideal mobile platform traction solutions. The MPW52 and larger MPW86 feature high torque-density brushless DC motors with integrated single-stage planetary gearboxes and wheel drive assemblies. Leveraging its design expertise, ElectroCraft has addressed the complexities of mobile robot drivetrain design with the introduction of its MobilePower™ Wheel-Drive (MPW) integrated mobile robot wheel drives. While that is undoubtedly a major design challenge, it can be made simpler by partnering with an expert in mobile robot drivetrain design such as ElectroCraft, a global provider of dependable, application-engineered fractional-horsepower motor and motion products. That puts pressure on the design engineer to choose the best power supply, control systems, motors, gearboxes, wheels and brakes to combine into a drivetrain, which ensures the mobile robot features the optimum trade-off between cost, reliability, efficiency, load-carrying capability, uptime and longevity. The difference in the cost of ownership between the reliable machine and its less robust counterpart is stark. In contrast, a poorly designed drivetrain will lead to higher energy costs, increased maintenance, and premature wear and failure. If the OEM uses well designed and proven components, the mobile robot will provide many years of service, handling cumbersome, heavy loads efficiently with minimal downtime for maintenance. The lifetime cost of ownership of a mobile robot is largely influenced by the design of its drivetrain. The product offers OEMs a compact, high-torque density electric wheel drive that solves drivetrain design challenges and cuts the lifetime running costs of mobile robots.
ElectroCraft's MobilePower™ MPW series integrated wheel drives benefit from the company's decades of mobile power design expertise.