500,000^thproduct to be used for testing motors

Hamelin --- Lenze’s motor plant in Extertal is celebrating a production milestone: The 500,000^thservo motor (a powerhouse from the MQA L-force series) will soon be providing the motor test bench of a French customer with the motive force it needs to do its job.

Lenze’s servo motors are a real success story that managed to achieve sales growth even in the “crisis year” of 2009. These slim-line servo motors can accelerate much faster than standard three-phase AC motors, do not require as much installation space and, as a result, consume less current too. According to Product Manager Daniele Iasenzaniro: “These are all good reasons why this technology is being used in more and more industrial applications. The best known example of such an application would be that of robots used in the automotive industry.”

The success of Lenze’s servo motors could not have been achieved without its dedicated workforce in the motor production department at the Extertal site or its innovative development team. These are the people who are constantly coming up with new ideas to improve Lenze products and who have thus paved the way for the market success the company is now enjoying. The ongoing increase in its success is particularly evident in the international arena. One example of an especially successful product is the “pitch drive”, which is used in wind power plants and has been the subject of some very high volume orders. Its purpose? To adjust the rotor blades so they are at an optimum angle to the wind.

Herbert Pankow, Head of Motor Production and one-time designer of the first servo motors, is particularly impressed by the close and purposeful cooperation that goes on between members of the development and production departments. “It’s only a small team, but without it we wouldn’t be where we are today.” He goes on to say that innovation now not only means making progress on a purely technological level, but also constantly working to develop new procedures and to make processes more efficient. Production Manager Matthias Müller underlines this point: “Achieving a long-term reduction in production costs will actually improve our competitiveness overall.”