BULKEX: SEW to show Australian-assembled X-Series

Upon completion of an upgrade to its assembly facility at the company’s national headquarters in Melbourne, SEW-Eurodrive will be able to offer locally assembled X-Series gear-units by the year’s end.
    Comprising four distinct sizes, with torque ratings of 58,000 to 90,000kNm, the Australian-assembled X-Series features helical and helical-bevel gear technologies, and is suitable for motor powers up to 700kW. Like the entire X-Series, the Australian-assembled range will be offered in a range of mounting arrangements, configuration options and user-specific requirements.
    SEW-Eurodrive said its latest investment in Australia’s manufacturing sector exudes a refreshing confidence at a time of global financial uncertainty.     “Increasing our local assembly capability will provide a real advantage to Australia’s industrial sector,” said SEW-Eurodrive national product manager industrial gear units, Ian Tribe. “We are continuing to enhance our technological edge and enviable track-record of local assembly capabilities to provide users with fast-tracked drive solutions. It’s this ability to provide a locally-assembled end-to-end drive solution in quick time that differentiates us from our competitors.”
    According to Tribe, the Australian-assembled X-Series boasts a modular design and is assembled from a range of standard components.
    “The modularity of the X-Series allows shortened delivery times, as units are assembled from stock parts,” said Tribe. “This allows users with multiple X-Series gear-units with component commonality to minimise spare parts inventory. Unlike gear units manufactured overseas, the Australian-assembled X-Series can be supplied in just a few weeks, allowing users to streamline their own project timelines.”
    The ‘big brother’ of the company’s MC Compact industrial gear-units, SEW-Eurodrive said the entire X-Series boasts the finest torque-graduation on the market, allowing users to closely match an X-Series gear-unit to their application.
    “With competing gear-unit manufacturers offering fewer gear-unit models and torque-ratings, users often have no choice but to select an oversized unit to accommodate their drive application,” he said. “To combat this, the X-Series provides more models with finer torque-graduation, allowing users to select a model more closely matched to their needs. Users are therefore able to make savings in space, capital expenditure, operating costs, and in the structural supports that would otherwise be required for heavier units.”
    Like all members of the X-Series family, the Australian-assembled X-Series has been designed with a number of options, including a housing that allows the gear-units to be inverted.
    “The X-Series can be ‘flipped over’ to produce a mirror-image gearbox,” said Tribe. “Facilities can utilise a single spare to replace both left- and right-hand drive gear-units, thus reducing the number of complete gear-unit spares needed to be kept on site.
    “The Australian-assembled X-Series complements our already-extensive range of industrial gear-unit solutions,” said Tribe “SEW-Eurodrive prides itself in being able to provide Australian industry with straightforward access to the country’s most comprehensive selection of industrial gear-units.”
    SEW-Eurodrive will be at stand no 1, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Southbank, 4 to 6 August, 2009.
    The SEW-Eurodrive group is a global designer and developer of mechanical power transmission systems and motor control electronics, headquartered in Bruchsal, Germany. Its broad spectrum of integrated solutions includes geared motors and gear units, high torque industrial gear units, high-efficiency motors, electronic frequency inverters and servo drive systems, decentralised drive systems, plus engineered solutions and after-sales technical support/training.
    The Australian division of SEW-Eurodrive is headquartered in Melbourne and is supported by a network of offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Adelaide and Perth. A comprehensive service and technical support centre is located in Melbourne, and complemented by assembly facilities in both Melbourne and Sydney. The company’s customer base includes large-scale corporations and smaller entrepreneurial enterprises across Australia.
Contact: Ian Tribe, tel - 03 9933 1000