igus has added a new AI chatbot to the online platform RBTX.com. The interactive consultant is designed to enable companies with little previous experience and technological expertise to quickly and reliably put together Low Cost Automation (LCA) solutions to become more competitive. First users are enthusiastic about the intuitive AI solution.
Whether you’re visiting the Christmas market with friends or enjoying Christmas dinner with family, a good mulled or special wine is a must. To offer people this supposed matter of course even in times of labour shortages, winemakers must increasingly rely on automation during the grape harvest. However, slopes with a gradient of 75% and narrow rows of vines were previously considered impossible to automate. The German company CH engineering GmbH has developed a particularly compact harvesting vehicle for precisely this area of application. It uses a robust energy chain made of high-performance plastic from igus to work reliably even under difficult conditions, minimising maintenance work for winemakers.
The pressure on beverage manufacturers to produce hygienically is increasing: consumer demands for product safety are growing and global standards from authorities such as the FDA are becoming stricter. As a result, the demands on machine and system components are also increasing. To enable machine builders and operators to achieve hygienic, low-maintenance and fail-safe production, igus will be presenting lubrication-free drylin linear and drive technology in hygienic design at BrauBeviale 2024 in Nuremberg (Hall 7, Stand 436), including a design study for a ready-to-install SHT linear axis. This not only fulfils FDA and EU requirements, but also meets the EHEDG guidelines with regard to cleanability.
On the occasion of igus’s 60th anniversary, the igus:bike has now been travelling across Germany for 37 days and has visited numerous customers, projects and sights along the way. From the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to the iMSPO shore power system at Hamburg harbour and passenger boarding bridges at Frankfurt airport to Neuschwanstein Castle in the foothills of the Alps. The bicycle made of recycled plastic is intended to sensitise people to the topic of the “circular economy of plastics” and show how robust and durable igus motion plastics are – both in the igus:bike and in various customer applications.
igus offers customers the opportunity to save costs and protect the environment at the same time when purchasing cables from the chainflex range: thanks to the residual stock in the online shop, they can purchase remaining lengths of chainflex cables at a 50% discount. This zero-waste measure helps avoid waste and makes the company more sustainable.