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Producing wholesome quality food is challenging work. In addition to designing and manufacturing creative and tasty products, a laser focus on food safety is necessary for food processing companies to survive and thrive. Effective sanitation of machinery and facilities is critical in the production of safe food products.

When intermittent power density is of a required high value, you may not want to use classic RMS calculations and speed-torque performance curves as your only method to select a servo motor and drive. Doing so might cause an under-sizing of the motor or drive.

Direct Drive servo motor and drive technology not only reduces an axis’ parts count, mechanical losses and often its objectionable noise; Direct drive technology also increases a machine’s efficiency, lowering operation cost for the user due to its inertia ratio, as compared to the more common mechanically advantaged multi-body axis designs. Reducing the mechanical transmission components such as gearboxes, timing belts, pulleys, cams, lead screws and so on, between the motor and its load is only part of the savings!

Food and beverage companies and their machine suppliers constantly fight to keep our food supply safe. These microscopic battles are fought with large quantities of water and chemical sanitation processes. Hygienic machine design is critical even down to the sub-component level in order to allow these processes to be effective in removing product residues, removing pathogens, and destroying bacterial intruders.