MINI MOTOR: GET BIGGER BY THINKING SMALLER

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INTERPACK 2014

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interpack2014 (1)MINI MOTOR: GET BIGGER BY THINKING SMALLER.

In 2014, the company is updating its range of products, expanding its sales in foreign markets, and renewing its partnership with Studer, the leading brand of grinding machines.

interpack2014 (6)Mini Motor’s success today is still based on its founder’s original insight: get the best performance and efficiency from much smaller gear motors than those sold by its competitors. And why? Fewer installation problems for customers and more potential applications for Mini Motor gear motors in different fields of manufacturing. That was in 1974 and this initial idea took the company a long way, backed by a manufacturing philosophy that went against the flow: put the focus on absolute product quality, designing and making motors and gear units entirely in-house.
Subsequent developments in technology applied to automation was an ultimate boost for Mini Motor’s production: by adopting robotic machines, it was not only able to increase its production volumes and continue to expand its range, it was also able to perfect the accuracy of its controls applied at every stage of the manufacturing process.
In more recent years, Mini Motor has prepared an ISO 8 Clean Room (category 100000) so it can make special production runs in small quantities in decontaminated conditions: another step forward to increasingly enhanced product customisation and bespoke customer service.

interpack2014 (5)1 million motors in 40 years.
As 2013 came to a close, on the eve of its 40th anniversary, the first gear motor with a six-digit serial number came off Mini Motor’s production line. Passing this goalpost naturally prompts a moment of reflection as regards the corporate values that made this possible. For Mini Motor, these values are reflected in superior build quality that starts with choosing the best materials; in absolute operating precision to guarantee constantly excellent performance, and in superior efficiency for optimum performance matched by reduced consumption. These values are described in Mini Motor’s corporate video, available to view on its website. However, there is also a fourth value revolving around the concept of customisation. Because, Mini Motor’s mission continues to focus on supplying bespoke products capable of meeting specific demands in terms of dimensions, challenging applications, extreme temperature conditions, and anything else above and beyond the standard products available on the market.

interpack2014 (4)A new range in the name of innovation.
Mini Motor current range has tens of thousands of different product codes, with different types of equipment, various power ranges and reduction ratios, types of connection, different degrees of protection and options. Other variables also come into play depending on the specific demand that each product was designed to handle, such as special paints, increased power ratings, etc. Mini Motor decided to organise this vast number of product codes by dividing its range into four main categories: coaxial gear motors, worm screw gear motors, brushless servomotors and drivers.

interpack2014 (3)The new XC Series of worm screw gear motors provide 1 Hp maximum power even if they are just 288 mm long. They are 30% smaller than competing motors providing similar power, but offer 20% better performance. The standard versions offer IP65 protection but an IP67 version is also available on request.
interpack2014 (2)The new DBS brushless servomotors with integrated driver is the true “flagship” of Mini Motor’s production: the servomotor and driver have been made into a single, exceptionally compact product, ideal for product changeover systems. The three-phase 4-pole sinusoidal motor is completely enclosed, with a thermal safety feature, class F winding, and IP65 protection. The DBS55 version has a 55 mm flange and torque up to 0.7 Nm. The driver has a 24 to 48 Vdc power supply and has an absolute, multi-turn SSI magnetic encoder, enabling control of torque, speed, position and homing. The optionals include the DP profibus. Planetary or worm screw versions of the reduction unit are available.
Its other products include the new MCBS and MCFBS brushless servo gear motors – the latest development in worm screw gear motors- and the new Miniaction range of drivers and frequency converters offering an outstanding performance / price ratio.

Joining forces with Studer for uncompromising precision.
Mini Motor has again turned to a Studer automatic machine to safeguard the utmost grinding accuracy of its gear units. The new unit is called the S22 and can undertake traditional cylinder grinding on the production line, as well as grinding shapes and threads at high speed (HSP), ideal for the production at Mini Motor that not only demands high quality, it is also large scale and has to be “flexible”. On its side, Mini Motor played an important part in the engineering of the S22 by giving it an extra automatic function, enabling the straightening of all the gears directly in the production line after they have undergone heat processing and before they undergo cylinder grinding.
By confirming its confidence in the Swiss brand Studer, Mini Motor is underlining its intention to keep its entire production cycle in-house, with the aim of guaranteeing the “absolute quality” that is acknowledged by Mini Motor customers all over the world.

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