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Precision Drive Systems

The right drive for your ideas

We build customer-specific drives for you, even if it's only a single unit. We combine brushed and brushless DC motors, gearheads, sensors, and controllers into mechatronic drive systems.

Use our e-shop to assemble your specific maxon DC or BLDC drive: For example, you can configure gear stages, motor bearings, shafts, and encoders online – and much more. We will have your drive ready for shipment within 11 working days – including modifications to gearhead and sensor.

Since 1961, businesses from a wide range of industries, including medical technology, robotics, industrial automation, mobility, and aerospace, place their trust in reliable drive systems by maxon. Our drives excel where extreme precision and the highest quality standards are indispensable and compromises cannot be tolerated – on Earth, and on Mars.

5000 products, 1 million possible combinations

Configure your personal maxon drive system. Get an overview of the extensive range of DC and BLDC motors, gearheads, sensors, control electronics, and the variety of possible combinations. Make a preliminary selection based on the power and size, commutation, or bearings. Find what you're looking for in the maxon online shop – including our sterilizable drives for use under special ambient conditions or electric drives with integrated electronics.

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The next step: Mechatronic drive systems

maxon is able to combine high-quality drive components in a mechatronic system. The benefits: a compact design, components configured specifically for the customer, and the guarantee of obtaining maximum performance from the drive system.

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Expertise

We turn your ideas into drive solutions

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maxon experts can be found in these industries

Our engineers have profound industry knowledge. They won't be satisfied until they have found the perfect drive solution. maxon is ISO certified for medical technology and aerospace applications, among other areas.

DC and BLDC motors made by maxon drive the Mars rovers and have been operating on the Red Planet for more than ten years. Down here on Earth, the unique quality of our reliable, efficient and powerful drive systems ensures customer satisfaction. Together with our customers, we find the right solution for each application. The name maxon is synonymous with customized precision and stands for an extensive support network of drive specialists that guarantees high Swiss standards all over the world, in the US, Europe, and Asia.

Our experts trust in the advantages of maxon drives: Compact design, high quality and reliability, robustness (resilience against shock and vibration), a wide temperature range, long service life, adaptability (rotary and linear drives), excellent control characteristics due to linear gradients, a defined configuration and change management, and risk minimization through batch tracking.

Applications

From the Earth‘s core all the way to Mars

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For power and precision: maxon at work

maxon drives are precise, efficient, and deliver a lot of power in a very compact unit. They are used in deep drilling, in surgical robots, bicycles, airplanes, tattoo machines, as well as on Mars.

In the aerospace industry, a wide range of applications is controlled by actuators. They need to withstand tough ambient conditions, with strong vibrations and extreme temperature fluctuations. To increase reliability even further, safety-critical functions in airplanes use actuators with dual motors. One such actuator is installed at the jet engine to shut off the fuel supply in the event of a fire. This function must be available at all times and under any circumstances. The electric drives are therefore equipped with two high-quality DC motors.

Let yourself be inspired by this and many other application stories – from medical technology, robotics, or just from everyday life.