Parasitic shaft currents are among the most common causes of bearing damage in electric drive systems. Inadequate grounding can lead to costly failures – in rail transport, industrial production facilities, and electric mobility alike. The Schunk Group addresses this challenge with a comprehensive portfolio of grounding systems, ranging from traditional grounding contacts to innovative carbon-based solutions.

The Schunk Group is your innovative partner when it comes to metal injection molding (MIM) at the highest technological level. With over 100 years of material expertise and state-of-the-art MIM technology, we manufacture complex, precise, and series-ready metal components – tailored exactly to the requirements of your industry.

If one of your production plants breaks down, this is associated with high costs. Damaged bearings are often the reason for expensive downtimes. The cause: parasitic currents that find their way through the rolling bearings of the plant. Shaft grounding systems can reliably remedy this situation and discharge voltages to the plant ground. But we know that many of our industrial customers still face a dilemma: This is because shafts with a wide variety of diameters are installed in the gear units of their production plants. This means high storage costs, as they have to keep various sizes of shaft grounding systems in stock for emergencies. We will show you how you can now ground a wide variety of shafts with just one system and reduce your storage costs:

Dry-running rotary vane vacuum pumps are often used when a clean, oil-free vacuum is required in industry. For example, in the chemical industry, paper manufacturing, pharmaceutical industry, food processing, in hospitals and in the packaging industry. Here, the rotary vanes are permanently exposed to high loads, which can lead to rapid wear. With innovative carbon-based materials, service intervals and service life can be significantly extended.  

With decades of know-how in materials and an understanding of the special requirements in various industries, we develop trailblazing solutions together with our customers. The delivery and installation of our products is by no means the end of our involvement with the customer. The visitations of our Scandinavian colleagues to a total of six different hydro power stations provide an example of how our customers also benefit from our extensive experience through after-sales service.
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Schunk Smart Charging is already in use worldwide as a charging solution for electric buses. But the potential applications of the conductive and wireless charging system are far from exhausted. The technology is also demonstrating its potential in the automated charging of battery-powered mining vehicles. Product Manager Timo Staubach explains the background to this globally unique pilot project.