The magazine with drive

FAUlHABER motion 1/2019 out now

Fascinating stories right out of the world of drives systems are featured in the latest edition of motion – the magazine with drive, published by FAULHABER. The competition “Factory of the Year” with FAULHABER winning the category “excellent small series assembly”, drives from PiezoMotor in medical applications are as well featured as FAULHABER drives being used in the textile industry or e-bike solutions powered by FAULHABER. The free magazine is available online and in print.

Hightech in the starring role (page 14)

The value of clothing sold worldwide in 2017 exceeded 1.4 trillion dollars. Can you image the amount of yarn contained in this mountain of clothing? Neither can we – but it must have been millions of miles. All of this yarn was wound and unwound multiple times during processing. This is just one process step in the textile industry in which the compact and long-lasting drives from FAULHABER prove themselves daily.

Factory of the Year (page 6)

FAULHABER also proved itself in the "Factory of the Year" competition and claimed the top prize in the "Excellent Small Series Assembly" category. “I am tremendously pleased with this honour for our company. Together – and that is very important to me personally – we have succeeded in bringing FAULHABER to the forefront in terms of production as well. With our constant pursuit to improve processes, our synchronization across locations and the high level of automation, we were able to convince the jury of the most traditional and most competitive benchmark competition”, says FAULHABER CEO Dr. Thomas Bertolini.

Through a storm of ions in the service of medicine (page 10)

The more one know about a tumor, the better it can be fought. With positron-emission tomography (PET), it is possible to very accurately distinguish cancer cells from the surrounding tissue. The highly detailed images are created with the help of low-level radioactive isotopes, which are produced in particle accelerators. In the GENtrace cyclotrons from GE Healthcare, drives from PiezoMotor help. The inhospitable conditions in such machines do not affect them at all.

GPS for the Milky Way (page 18)

What is going on in the Milky Way? We know surprisingly little about this, because we literally have a hard time seeing the wood for the trees. But the MOONS project initiated by British astronomers aims to change this. Technology from FAULHABER will play an important role.