Last week, the Research Association for Drive Technology (FVA) visited the ATLANTA site in Korntal-Münchingen with the Worm Gear Working Group. ATLANTA has been an active member of the FVA for several years, which connects a total of 168 companies from industry with research.
For ATLANTA, Mr. Sören Klann is the contact person in the Worm Gear Working Group and organized the meeting in Korntal-Münchingen, fittingly coinciding with our move to the new premises and in his new role as deputy chairman of the working group.
The FVA pursues the mission to connect people and research together in order to develop knowledge and tools for a sustainable and efficient drive technology. The intensive exchange, targeted knowledge transfer, and active shaping of the research agenda offer member companies great added value and strengthen their innovative power and competitiveness in the long term.
ATLANTA is a member of the Worm Gear Working Group, whose goal is to continuously improve the properties and load capacity of worm gears. In extensive experimental studies, wear, pitting, scoring, and root load capacity were analyzed, among other things. The results obtained often form the basis for the DIN standard for load capacity calculation of worm gears, which directly demonstrates the practical benefit of the research projects.
Further research projects deal with load capacity limits, material optimizations, size influences, as well as new manufacturing and lubrication methods. Thanks to these insights, the transferable torques of worm gears have been gradually increased by about 50 percent over the past 20 years. Current projects again focus on new materials and further potentials for increasing load capacity.
The participants of the working group were very positive about the organization as well as the new ATLANTA site.
