Evotion 2024 | Customer Magazine
Evotion 2024 | Customer Magazine
Preparing apprentices for work in the international arena
The opportunity to gain experience abroad and work in Europe, the USA or Asia has been an integral part of training at Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH since 2000. After a temporary interruption due to Corona, the program is once again enjoying great popularity. The young people taking part in the assignment not only experience enriching stays abroad but are also well-prepared for international service assignments.
Learning and networking platform for the gearing industry
Liebherr gear seminars worldwide
Liebherr has been offering specialist seminars for the gearing industry all over the world for over 20 years. The gear seminars are designed as a learning and networking platform for users, where Liebherr experts and speakers from universities and from the industry discuss practical topics and specific issues relating to gear technology. At the same time, they offer participants the opportunity to share their experiences.
The revised Liebherr gear shaping machine with new features
Robust and even more versatile: the LS 500 E
Gear shaping is a robust and universal process for manufacturing gears – due to the geometries of some gears, no other machining methods are capable of producing the teeth. In order to offer even more versatility in this area, Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH has fundamentally revised and developed its LS 500 E gear shaping machine. A shaping head featuring an electronic helical guide and an interface for an optional chamfering device are now included as standard.
50 years of Liebherr Brazil
Synergies for the whole of South America
Liebherr Brasil Ltda is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024. Excavators, cranes, truck mixers and slewing bearings are just some of the products manufactured for the South American market at the site in Guaratinguetá, Brazil. The sales and service activities of the group are also gathered together here. Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH also has 15 employees at the site.
Successful conversion of production at Halewood
Ford produces electric drive units using Liebherr gantry systems
E-mobility is taking hold around the world – and the automotive industry is changing. Many manufacturers are shifting from internal combustion engines to electric powertrains. The Ford Motor Company – a long-term partner of Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH – will be making most of the electric drive units for its European production at its UK transmission plant at Halewood near Liverpool. As before, Ford will be using Liebherr gantry technology, but for electric drive units rather than transmissions for internal combustion engines.
Taiwanese integrator Pongi adds bin picking software to its portfolio
LHRobotics.Vision goes to Asia
Pongi Gear Experts Co., Ltd. has represented Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH in Taiwan for many years. In 2022, it incorporated the Kempten company‘s bin picking software into its portfolio and set up its own demonstration and training facility for intelligent automation. Potential customers can evaluate the smart and intuitive system on a fully equipped cell with a camera, robot and simulation tool.
High-precision measuring machines for small and large gears
WGT 1200 optimized for automatic loading of large workpieces
The Liebherr WGT series of gear measuring machines are used in gear manufacturing for a wide range of industries: from the smallest aerospace applications to large gearbox components for wind turbines, tower cranes or commercial vehicles, where some of the gears weigh tons. With the optimized WGT 1200, Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH provides high-precision measurement even for huge workpieces up to a diameter of 1400 mm and a weight of 5 tons.
Two Liebherr trainees on assignment abroad in China
“It was such a great experience!”
Julia Stachel and Laura Scheiber completed their training as industrial mechanics at Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH at the beginning of 2024. During their training period, they spent four weeks at the Liebherr plant in Yongchuan, China in August 2023. Here they explain what made them choose China, their experience there and what it is like to suddenly have lots of people wanting to take a photo with you!
PHS 1500 Allround increases productivity at Linde Hydraulics by 30%
Modern pallet handling in historic halls
For the manufacturing of valves and valve kits, Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co. KG invested in a production plant at the Ballenstedt site with five 5-axis machining centers from Grob, which are interlinked via the PHS 1500 Allround pallet handling system from Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH. This enabled the company to increase the output of this manufacturing line by 30%. The planning was quite a challenge: due to the high demand, not only did additional machines have to be integrated, but an alternative location for the plant in the historic production halls also had to be found during the project.