Spindle drives brought back to life

Yaskawa Engineering Europe has introduced a spindle refurbishment offer for users of old Yaskawa MT2 and MT2B series spindle drives.

Yaskawa Engineering Europe has introduced a spindle refurbishment offer for users of old Yaskawa MT2 and MT2B series spindle drives.

These spindle drives are found most commonly on machine tools, in Europe typically on the widely used machines from Matsuura, Okuma and Hitachi-Seiki.

Although the spindle drives are almost 25 years old and spare parts are becoming rare, over a thousand machines are still used in daily production.

To avoid these very economical machines being scrapped just because of a spindle drive failure Yaskawa has introduced a repair kit that can be fitted without control cabinet modification - even the bolt patterns are exactly the same.

There is no cabling change required and no need to change the spindle motor because the retrofit drive has been equipped with a special resolver interface.

Because the renewal kit is plug and play, installation is both simple and quick - it takes typically no more than four hours to complete the refurbishment.

The reasonably priced Yaskawa kit centres around the latest M5 series spindle drive and is supplied complete with necessary wiring, contactors, reactor and motor interface.

Since introducing the new kit a year ago, Yaskawa Engineering has installed 30 refurbishments in Europe.

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