Winning prevention

R+W, the important player in the field of couplings and line shafts, has focused its advertising campaign for 2021 on prevention. New intelligent components, such as AIC couplings, will make an important contribution to avoiding damage, downtime, quality non-conformities or other undesirable situations.

R+W, specialist in the field of couplings and line shafts, is focusing its 2021 communication campaign on the importance of prevention, a very hot topic: preventive and predictive maintenance are among the most important elements enabling traditional factories to make the transition to smart factories in accordance with the principles of Industry 4.0. New intelligent components, such as AIC couplings, will make an important contribution to avoiding damage, downtime, quality non-conformities or other undesirable situations.

Smart couplings enable preventive and predictive maintenance

In the manufacturing sector too, it is becoming increasingly clear that prevention rather than repair – or redesign, in the case of prototyping – is a key factor in a company’s competitiveness. The ability to obtain real-time data enabling preventive and predictive maintenance, as well as real-time quality monitoring, is one of the advantages offered by the new AIC (Artificial Intelligence Coupling) components which R+W has recently introduced to the market. The introduction of sensors integrated into the coupling, capable of measuring key variables directly from the transmission, is an absolute novelty offered by R+W, which this time has anticipated the demands of the market.