{"id":10604,"date":"2021-05-18T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T07:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apexdyna.nl\/?p=10604"},"modified":"2023-08-03T13:52:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T11:52:14","slug":"planetary-gearbox-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apexdyna.nl\/en\/gearboxes\/planetary-gearbox-construction","title":{"rendered":"Planetary gearbox enables high-precision glass lifting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Installing windows and doors is hard work, even for the craftsmen who do this every day, but with one of the smart glass lifters from SmartLift this is history. This device lifts the window or door into place and precisely positions and adjusts it before it can be secured. Apex Dynamics supplied the necessary drives for this essential system.
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Back and knees are the areas where most craftsmen experience pain and other discomfort after years of working in the industry. For example in construction where windows and doors have to be lifted and fully adjusted into place before they can be fixed. Employers can choose from a number of tools to help their employees with this task, usually using a forklift or Manitou. Unfortunately, these can only lift, not position the window or door to the wall hole.<\/p>\n

A glass lifter that only releases when the window is fixed<\/h2>\n

\"\"That’s what they would like to achieve at SmartLift in Nyk\u00f8bing Mors. They developed a glass lifter for both indoor and outdoor use, that can be used to hold and adjust the door or window completely in place. Because window and door elements are often quite heavy, they had some very special challenges with the equipment to be able to not only hold the window or door in place but adjust it very precisely as well.<\/p>\n

Force and precision in one and the same solution<\/h2>\n

After all, it should not only be able to keep the heavy building element completely solid and stable. It must also be able to adjust the placement of the element in small steps with a remote control so that the glass lifter does not release the element until it has been securely attached to the hole in the wall. It required both force and precision – and these two things rarely go together in practice.<\/p>\n

Either an old-fashioned and very cumbersome mechanical solution or an expensive hydraulic system would have to be used for that. The first would make operating the glass lifter very complex, and the second would pose a risk of contamination – and costly cleaning – if one of the hydraulic hoses were punctured. Plus, this wouldn’t make it to precision.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the customer contacted Apex Dynamics and the result is impressive:<\/p>\n