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Efficient gearbox important for AGV

Autonomous applications such as AGV's have one thing in common: energy efficiency is crucial. The gearbox is an important part of this.
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What is a planetary gearbox?

A planetary gearbox is used in robots, electric vehicles and 3D printers, but what exactly is a planetary gearbox? We will give you a short explaination.
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Mechanical four-wheel drive steering system with gearbox

Punch Power Train Solar Team of Leuven University in Belgium is using our gearbox in its unique steering system for the solar contest in Darwin, Australia.
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Gearbox oil determines classification in the food industry

Lubricant in the food industry has 3 classifications; H1, H2 and H3. But what does this mean and which gearbox can you use?
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3-stage gearboxes

Gearboxes with a ratio up to 1,000 : 1, ideal for a stable slow-turning shaft in your application
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Planetary gearbox in Mobi application of KU Leuven

Sustainable urban vehicle Mobi made by students of KU Leuven aims to put urban mobility upside down, with an Apex Dynamics gearbox.
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Jumping rope with Apex Dynamics gearbox

How can we, as a supplier of low backlash gearboxes, make visitors of festivals happy? The Turbo Rope Tornado! Two enthusiastic students made it happen!
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New AH(K) series gearboxes from Apex Dynamics

Apex Dynamics is expanding its series planetary gearboxes with the types of AH and AHK: a Heavy Duty flange gearbox with a backlash of less than 1 arcminute, ratios up to 10,000: 1 and nominal torques...
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Dutch SmeshGear lets planetary gearbox run faster

TU Eindhoven Team STORM developed an electric motorcycle that drove 26,000 kilometers in 80 days. Joint responsibility: the transmission SmeshGear
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Apex Dynamics’ contribution to technical course gearboxes

Which fast developing market requires small gearboxes, mounted directly to servomotors? Of course, the development of Robotics and Mechatronics. For example, when the output shaft of a high-precisio...
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Coaxial gearbox central in the EnerKite for wind energy

Apex Dynamics provides coaxial gearbox from the AE-series and right-angle gearboxes from the AFR-series for the innovative wind-energy project of EnerKite.
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Coaxial gearbox with hollow shaft

Apex Dynamics developed an extra part to equip a coaxial gearbox with hollow shaft. Several machine building companies have asked Apex Dynamics recently a very special request, they required a coaxia...
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10 years planetary gearboxes from Apex Dynamics in the Benelux

On June 1st, 2016 it is exactly 10 years ago that we started selling Apex Dynamics high-precision low backlash planetary gearheads in the European market.
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Importance of torque in a gearbox

It happens often. Customers who have designed a drive system on paper but in practice, the system does not work as planned. Strange because if the nominal torque of the gearbox is equal or higher tha...
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Gearboxes Apex Dynamics positioning axles Volvo trucks

"Actually we got in contact very late with Apex Dynamics. If we would have asked them sooner, we wouldn’t have any delay to deliver the project."
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Hypoïd High-End right-angle gearboxes!

Also in the high-end segment Apex Dynamics continues to invest. That's why we are launching a completely new Hypoid gearbox, the K series. Besides the right-angle planetary and bevel gearboxes this i...
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Your specialist for high-precision gearboxes

For the Benelux market Apex Dynamics has published a compact and concise product brochure in the Dutch language. Meanwhile, Apex Dynamics has over 42 different products in their program, in this broc...
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Why do we combine a servo motor with a gearbox

Do you know why we still use today gearboxes while servo motors becoming stronger and more advanced? The gearboxes of Apex Dynamics are used in many cases in combination with a servo motor, for exampl...
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Gear History – where do gearboxes originate?

Gears were a logical continuation of the invention of the wheel. That gears are called the biggest invention after the wheel is not unthinkable. In any case, we can’t live a normal day in our lives...
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History of the Bevel gear

As experts we sometimes assume that everyone understands us when we talk about certain terminology. We found out that not everyone knows what a planetary gear or bevel gear is. Therefore we are going...
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