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Why accurate drivetrain measurement matters
In many industries — from automotive and e-mobility to heavy machinery and manufacturing — engineers still rely on estimations or oversimplified models when designing drivetrains and rotary systems. This often leads to over-dimensioned components, excess material costs, wasted energy, and unpredictable maintenance cycles. Without real-time, high-precision data, you simply don’t know what stresses your system experiences during real-world operation.
With FORCEbit’s advanced sensor solutions, you finally gain full visibility into your machines’ internal dynamics: torque, bending, angular displacement, vibration, and load cycles. These insights empower you to optimize performance, increase energy efficiency, predict maintenance, and design more sustainable systems.
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Optimize Energy Efficiency and Cut Operating Costs
- Diagnose exact power flows: By equipping different shafts within a drivetrain with Forcebit sensors, you can measure how motor torque is distributed across the system. This reveals where energy is being lost (e.g. due to friction, misalignment, inefficiencies).
- Pinpoint inefficiencies: Rather than guess where losses occur, get real data on energy dissipation.
- Drive sustainable design choices: Use the data to re-think gear ratios, shaft and motor sizing and possible misalignment issues — downsizing certain parts can lead to cleaner, energy-efficient drivetrain but also to a more cost-effective design as less material is being used.
Benefits: Reduce energy waste, lower operating costs, and extend system lifespan through data-driven drivetrain optimization.
Improve Drivetrain Design and Upgrade Performance
- Test design modifications under real conditions: Whether you switch to a smaller motor, change gearbox ratios, or adjust control strategies: you can directly measure the impact on the tracking behavior of your end-effector, both for linear and rotational vibrations.
- Understand internal dynamics: Capture torque, bending, angular displacement, and vibration simultaneously to see how every design choice affects load distribution and behavior.
- Support mechatronic innovation: With detailed measurement data, designers and engineers can validate assumptions made during the design, adapt control to avoid critical frequencies and push performance boundaries.
Benefits: Faster, safer, and better-informed design decisions, ensuring new or upgraded drives meet performance and reliability targets from the start.
Predict Product Lifetime and Enhance System Sustainability
- Track real load cycles: By combining torque, bending and angular measurements on a regular basis, you can build accurate fatigue profiles for gears, bearings, shafts. The more sensors you add, the better your view on the individual loading conditions of each component. The Forcebit sensors are designed for periodic installation and assessments.
- Avoid over-sizing: Many companies oversize components because they lack precise load data. With Forcebit, you right-size components based on real stress history.
- Optimize maintenance & reduce waste: Predict when parts will need replacement, avoid unnecessary maintenance, and extend machine life, improving sustainability and reducing downtime.
Benefits: Durable, cost-efficient systems with reduced environmental impact, thanks to data-driven lifecycle management.
Diagnose Vibration and NVH performance for Better User Experience
- Detect torsional vibrations at the source: Sensors mounted on the drivetrain identify exactly which shaft or gear is causing vibration. Our rotary acceleration measurements can create very accurate waterfall diagrams.
- Assess vibration propagation through the entire machine: Wireless accelerometers across the system help you understand how vibrations travel and affect other components.
- Reduce noise, wear, and failure risk: Early detection of harmful vibrations helps you adjust design, balance loads and avoid premature failures.
Benefits: Quieter, smoother, and more reliable machinery — critical for products where performance, comfort, and precision matter (e.g. automotive, robotics, manufacturing).
Identify Potential Failures and Critical Components
- Track load behavior over time: With periodic measurements, monitor how loads evolve during operation.
- Detect abnormalities early: Increases in load, oscillations, or unexpected stress spikes often precede mechanical failures where it matters. As the source is often on the moving parts, it is crucial to make the assessment on these components. As our sensors also measure angular displacement, angle—based features can be a valuable source of features.
- Proactively maintain or upgrade: With data at hand, schedule maintenance or redesign before catastrophic failure happens.
Benefits: Reduced downtime, improved safety, and lower maintenance costs — a big win especially for heavy-duty or mission-critical machinery.
What the industry has to say about FORCEBIT
"Due to its ease of use, FORCEBIT's sensor is 10 times better than the product we had before"
