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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Lenze | Subject: Servo drives
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 04 August 2003
Servo drives are great shakes for BMW
Servo drives play a crucial role in the lost foam casting process used to produce BMW engine blocks.
Engines made by BMW are reckoned set car drivers' pulses racing that bit faster They set the benchmark when it comes to performance and smoothness
But those engines do not obtain their attractive features without precise production processes.
This is where Lenze servo drives play a part in the casting of the engine blocks.
At the BMW Landshut plant a process of lost foam casting is used.
Polystyrene patterns are laid on a bed of quarry sand before molten aluminium is poured in.
Off-balance rotary motors shake the mould so that sand is packed as tightly as possible around the patterns.
Lenze servo drives are used to control the motors and ensure that the sand flows freely when the moulds are filled, so that even the tiniest grooves in the pattern are filled.
Lenze servo drives suiting synchronous and asynchronous motors are available in a power range from 0.37 to 90kW. Request a free brochure from Lenze ...
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