SEW-Eurodrive brings delta robots to PPMA Total
Digital transformation talks a big game, but many UK factories still juggle energy-hungry drives, manual changeovers and maintenance headaches. Those bottlenecks siphon profit every shift, and the current skills gap makes upgrades feel risky. SEW-EURODRIVE UK is heading back to the PPMA Total Show precisely to help you tackle that stalemate.
The company’s stand will be packed with working systems that prove higher efficiency and faster throughput are now plug-and-play – no six-month integration marathon required. Live demos at the show will include a paper flow-wrapper, delta robot, multi-axis gantry and smart drives running continuous cycles under show-floor conditions. And SEW-Eurodrive engineers will talk through every move in real time, so you’ll come away knowing exactly how each component can slot into your line.
If plastic waste and climbing energy bills are a challenge, check out the Hugo Beck Flow Pack R, powered by MOVITRAC and CMP. Single-use plastic regulations and energy surcharges are squeezing margins in food and consumer-goods packaging. The Hugo Beck Flow Pack R, developed in collaboration with the global manufacturer is driven by SEW MOVITRAC inverters, and CMP synchronous servomotors and switches from plastic to recyclable paper without sacrificing speed and precision.
In pick-and-place applications, manual or legacy pick-and-place arms struggle with today’s mixed-SKU, high-hygiene environments, causing cross-contamination risks and costly changeovers. SEW’s Maze Kinematic Delta Robot features stainless-steel options that tolerate aggressive wash-downs while maintaining +/-0.1 mm accuracy at 120 picks/min – perfect for environments like food and pharmaceutical production.
Gary the Gantry 2 meanwhile, lifts and shifts heavy loads in three axes using extra-low-voltage drives, making it safer for operators and easier to relocate than pneumatic setups. Both systems run MOVIKIT robotics software and teach-in panels, for easy configuration and programming.
What about when motors are too big, too hot and too hungry? Oversized, air-cooled motors waste energy and footprint, yet underspecifying means stalling under load. SEW’s CMP series of synchronous servo motors spans seven frame sizes up to 320 Nm, delivering high torque density for tight machines in industries like food and beverage production, construction, or automotive.
CM3C (medium inertia) synchronous servo motors tame heavy external loads without overshoot, while all-stainless CM2H motors meet the toughest clean-room directives. Pick the torque you need and we’ll help you match it with the right servo gear unit.
Finally, if you’ve found that legacy VFDs (variable frequency drives) can’t coordinate multi-axis motion smoothly, forcing workarounds that burn commissioning hours, check out SEW-EURODRIVE’s MOVI-C UXH Controller, which unites single- and multi-axis drives under one software umbrella, adaptive positioning, electronic cams and safe-torque-off included. Pair it with MOVITRAC advanced standard inverters (single-axis up to 315 kW or modular multi-axis up to 180 A) and the PxG planetary servo gear units for a compact, flexible stack that scales from a micro-conveyor to an entire palletiser.
