Automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler India Limited showcased its flagship Lifetime Solutions and core competencies, including linear guides, bearing solutions, and Schaeffler Ultra Precision Drives for the machine tools industry at IMTEX 2023 in Bangalore.
Schaeffler has a focused approach towards the machine tools and automation market. Comprehensive end-to-end product and service solutions take care of the complete product lifecycle and localised production at the new Quick Center to reduce delivery lead time.
Harsha Kadam, MD & CEO Schaeffler India; President Industrial Business India said, “We have been steadily working towards delivering higher value with reduced lead times by establishing our ‘Quick Center’ in Maneja plant, while offering a comprehensive range of digital solutions. Combined with our digital and product solutions, Schaeffler is helping to achieve higher productivity by improving the overall availability of machine tool products. The products displayed are a testament to our core focus in reliability and precision.”
Schaeffler’s high precision products in the bearing arrangements of rotary tables, feed spindles, main spindles, and linear axes have been world leaders for many decades. Precise and durable, low-maintenance and immediately ready to install – Schaeffler has an extensive and well-balanced product range available for all bearing arrangements in machine tools. The service partnership is reinforced by Schaeffler Industrial Drives direct drive specialists, which now makes it possible to implement application-optimized complete solutions for rotary and linear movements as well.
With digitalization at the core of lifetime solutions, applications help in optimizing, (re)installing, rebuilding, and operating & maintaining. Cloud computing capability of Schaeffler OPTIME lifetime solutions enables faster data storage and analytics. On one hand, the OPTIME Cloud is connected to portable solutions plugged into the machines which gather real-time data. These physical entities are called OPTIME Gateway. The collected data is shipped on real-time basis to the cloud that processes it into information and delivers it to the user through OPTIME user interfaces supported by a mobile application. Users get an expert view and ready dashboard and can also manage existing assets.