motion THE MAGAZINE WITH DRIVE YEARS OF DRIVE SYSTEMS

The FAULHABER GROUP mourns the loss of its chairman/CEO and partner Dr. Fritz Faulhaber Dr. Faulhaber died on 6th February 2017 at the age of 68 following a severe illness. With him the FAULHABER GROUP has lost a great and visionary entrepreneurial personality, who combined and considerably and positively shaped all companies, which emerged from Dr. Fritz Faulhaber senior's legacy. Born in 1948 in Schönaich, Dr. Fritz Faulhaber moved to the United States with his mother at the age of 10. There he graduated university and did his doctorate in "Mechanical Engineering Design". In 1981 he became...

INTERVIEW Closer to the customer Interview with FAULHABER general sales manager Marcus Remmel CONSUMER Living geometry illustrates driving pleasure of the future Kinetic sculpture with FAULHABER Technology Inside SEWER ROBOTS Incredibly reliable Drive systems for inspection devices NEWS The flyweight that packs a heavyweight punch Innovations of the FAULHABER BP4 Brushless DC-Servomotor Series PROFESSIONAL TOOLS Sensor screwdriver with a delicate touch Always the right tightening torque for industrial screw fixing DIGITAL MEDIA Calculate drive systems online quickly and easily The new FAULHABER...

Issue 01.2017 Publisher / Editor: DR. FRITZ FAULHABER GMBH & CO. KG Schönaich · Germany Phone: +49 (0)70 31/638-0 Fax: +49 (0)70 31/638-100 Email: [email protected] www.faulhaber.com Layout: Regelmann Kommunikation Pforzheim · Germany www.regelmann.de Picture credits & copyright: All rights reserved. The rights for the graphics and pictures used as well as brand names mentioned are held by the respective owner. The copyright for the articles is held by the editor. Reproduction or electronic processing of content, even sections thereof, is only permitted with the explicit written consent of the...

On May 2, FAULHABER Austria GmbH in Vienna opens for business. The newly founded company will take over sales and service of FAULHABER Drive Systems products in Austria from ELRA-Antriebstechnik Vertriebs Ges.m.b.H., which served as the distributor there up to now. "Austria is an important market for us, one in which we would like to strengthen our presence", explains Marcus Remmel, general sales manager at FAULHABER Drive Systems and managing director of FAULHABER Austria. "In the areas of medical technology and automation technology, among others, there are many very interesting companies located...

MARCUS REMMEL General sales manager Which direction is FAULHABER going to take in the future? How will the customers benefit from this? Which industries will be increasing their demand for micro drives and complete solutions? General sales manager Marcus Remmel talks about markets and sales strategies, the company's own locations, the tremendous innovative strength of the company and his own, exciting way to FAULHABER.

What does FAULHABER represent in your opinion? How has the market developed for FAULHABER? FAULHABER is one of the technology leaders in its industry - but the main focus is still on the people: that is the nice thing about working for a family-run company. Above all, the company thinks in the long term, regardless of whether it is about customer or staff loyalty or our on-site commitment in the markets. In a way that is extremely varied, mainly because of the trend towards automation across all industries such as medical engineering and laboratory automation. Time and time again, extremely dynamic...

WE ARE CONTINUOUSLY MAKING PRODUCTION MORE EFFICIENT tion is also taking place in the aviation industry: functions which are still mainly mechanical are now being equipped with drives for additional comfort – be it the shutters in business class to seat adjustments in premium economy. And finally the before-mentioned automation technology, which is going in the direction of interconnected, but autonomously operating robots and systems to a certain extent. Does FAULHABER want further global expansion? We have had an efficient distribution network for many years, but we are also aware that we must...

advanced development at FAULHABER, which deals with new technologies and provides input for new products. Usually, these are technologies which are introduced in Sales or via product management, and which we then discuss with customers or sales partners. On the other hand, FAULHABER is orienting itself more strongly to markets and the customer groups which are active there. In order to do this, we started identifying and talking to important players years ago – asking for specific requirements and the desired customer benefits. The results were made available to product management and development...

DRIVING PLEASURE In celebration of their 100th anniversary, the BMW Group commissioned the development of the "Iconic Impulses" exhibition, which looks ahead to the future: What will mobility look like in the next 100 years? What will move people? The technical implementation of the international exhibition was undertaken by MKT AG from Olching near Munich, who relied on drives from FAULHABER. The approach taken by MTK AG is to explain the complexity of the modern world in a simple manner and yet still create a unique experience for the visitor. "Our strength is to concisely summarise technically...

Visionary ideas For the anniversary of the BMW Group, the task was to think ahead about mobility in the future. Exhibits for the four core brands - BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorcycle - were designed to transport the visionary ideas developers have for mobility in the future. Embedded in a concentric room concept, a kinetic-digital exhibit was created for each of the brands that activates the imagination of the viewer. Here, narration, sound, sculpture and viewer merge into a vision for mobility of the future. For the MINI, for example, a digital light sculpture was developed that aligns its...