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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.

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Aerospace

Industrial automation

Mobility solutions

Applications

From the operating room to outer space.

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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.

Actuators in Aviation

Micro industrial robot

Inked to precision

The perfect record player

Surgical power tools

Brushless DC motors in hull cleaning robot

Vacuum compatible maxon motors for extreme conditions

Brushless DC motors for down hole and directional drilling

The Mars mission

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Uncompromising quality since 1961

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You can rely on maxon where it really counts

  • 568 million in revenue (CHF)
  • 3050 employees
  • 40" countries
  • 5 million drives/year
  • 12000 variants/year

Founded in Switzerland, at home in the world

For the past 50 years, maxon has focused on customer-specific solutions, quality, and innovation. The products are manufactured in state-of-the-art facilities, including cleanrooms. The company has a total of 3,000 employees worldwide.

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maxon—driving your career

maxon offers an international yet familiar working environment for innovative thinkers and passionate movers and shakers. Those who are ready to question the limits of what's possible, as well as their own limitations, will quickly rise through the ranks at maxon.

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What motivates us

The unwavering will to make the seemingly perfect even better.

We are driven by progress. We are certain that we can continuously improve – even what seems to be perfect – over and over again. We believe that outstanding engineers and technicians can make a positive impact on the world. This is why we support them in their efforts to go off the beaten path and provide the right drives for their ideas. We do this because we share in their uncompromising drive to excel in technology.

How we operate

Intelligent, curious, and precise.

We put the world in motion. We think ahead and turn ideas into economically and intelligent viable solutions. Together, we push the boundaries of technology and build the electric drives of tomorrow. We strive for perfection and are curious about mastering future challenges together. No detail is too small nor a challenge too great for us.

Our promise to our customers

Integrated drive solutions, uncompromising quality, and pioneering innovation.

We develop innovative mechatronic drive systems in close collaboration with our customers. True to our Swiss roots, we strive for uncompromising quality. We do not give up until we have found the perfect drive solution for every application. As a privately-owned business, we are independent and able to make decisions quickly in the best interest of our customers.

Our promise to our employees

An international, yet familiar environment. 

For creative minds and passionate doers, we offer an international yet familiar environment. Those who are consistently prepared to question endless possibilities and themselves, will evolve to great heights with us.

CYBATHLON - connecting people and technology

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CYBATHLON - connecting people and technology

In the CYBATHLON, people with physical disabilities compete against each other in obstacle races – supported by state-of-the-art technical assistance systems. The teams and their pilots compete in six disciplines: brain-computer interface (BCI) race, functional electrical stimulation (FES) bike race, powered arm prosthesis race, powered leg prosthesis race, powered exoskeleton race, and powered wheelchair race. The CYBATHLON is hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). With this event, the institute provides a platform for exchange between technology developers, people with disabilities, and the public.

CYBATHLON 2020 will take place on November 13 – 14, 2020 – globally and in a new format, at the teams’ home bases. They will set up their infrastructure for the competition and film their races. From Zurich, the competitions will be broadcast through a new platform in a unique live program. At the CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition, pilots and their development teams will show what they have achieved together over the past years and will offer the spectators an unforgettable competition experience.

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maxon is supporting the CYBATHLON as a Presenting Partner. Our motors, gearheads, and controllers have been used in prostheses, exoskeletons, and wheelchairs for years. maxon is very proud to be a partner of such an inspiring project – and we hope to learn more about future requirements for drive systems used “n assistive technologies from the teams and pilots. Eugen Elmiger, CEO maxon Group: «We believe that excellent engineers with a curiosity for new things can make the world a better place. This is why maxon has supported the CYBATHLON from the very beginning.»

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Special CYBATHLON magazine edition

We are dedicating a special edition of our magazine to this fascinating project and ask ourselves: Where is the development of prosthetic devices heading? How do you build an exoskeleton? And what is the CYBATHLON inventor's favorite discipline?

To learn more, download the PDF magazine for free.

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