Engineering Guide CDA3000
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2  Drive definition
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2.3 Drive definition 
via power rating
he method of power rating is principally used in three areas of appli-
cation:
1. Metalworking machinery (milling, drilling, grinding, etc.)
2. Process engineering (pumps/fans, extruder, etc.)
3. General engineering (packaging and special machinery, manipula-
tors and conveyor systems, etc.)
The equations relating to areas of application 1 and 2 and their applica-
tion are described in Appendix A.2.2.
The following deals with area of application 3 and thus with the design of
traction and lifting drives.
Packaging machinery Manipulators Conveyor systems General engineering
• Discharge drive 
(cladding removal, 
vacuum packing 
sheet feed)
• Metering drive 
(volume metering, 
screw-type mete-
ring)
• Traction/lifting axis
(packers, palleti-
zers)
• Belt drive (bucket 
conveyor, product 
loading belt)
• Labeling machine 
(X/Y drive)
•etc.
• Traveling axis, 
X/Z-axis
• Lifting axis, Y-axis
• Indexing table drive
• Gripper drive
•etc.
• Trolley drive with 
1, 2 and 4 motors
• Crane lifting gear, 
trolley and running 
gear
• Conveyor belt
• Door drive
• Shelf conveyor
• Parquet flooring 
conveyor belt
• Roller and chain 
drive
•etc.
• Metalworking 
machinery
• Cross-cutters
• All kinds of special 
machinery
•etc.
Table 2.1 Typical examples of power rating from area of application 3