SEW Eurodrive

SEW Eurodrive is a German manufacturing company founded by Christian Pähr in 1931 as Süddeutsche Elektromotoren Werke. Today, it is an international organization that manufactures geared motors, frequency inverters and servo drives employing over 11,000 people worldwide with annual sales in excess of €2 billion.

Based in Bruchsal in Southern Germany they have manufacturing assembly and service centres throughout the world. SEW Are leaders in decentralised control technology, with products such as Movimot, Movigear, Moviswitch, and Movitrans. In addition they have moved in to the large industrial gearbox market with their range of helical, bevel helical, and planetary gearboxes.

A further development sees their 30-year-old DT/DV range of motors being replaced by the new DR range of motors which are designed with future efficiency standards in mind. The new DR range complies in full with EuP Lot 11 which will be the new compulsory European efficiency standard to replace the existing voluntary agreement in 2011. The new range of motors has many advantages over the old range but is built to the same high standards we have come to expect from SEW. [http://www.sew-eurodrive.de/dr-motor/englisch]

SEW-Eurodrive made its mark in the industry by making the motor and gearbox integral or monolithic. By bypassing the constraints of what is considered mutually exclusive total optimization is possible, thus allowing far higher service lives when compared to "industry standards". This makes SEW a superior product as a total solution with myriad of "off the shelf" configurations.

SEW initially produced motors until 1945 when Allied Strategic Command bombed the factory into rubble. After Germany's surrender the company became an entity of the US—via the Marshall Plan. When this was concluded in 1948 the company was returned to its owners, the Blickles. At this point gear motors became its product and expertise.

External links

* [Official site] http://www.sew-eurodrive.com