SEW-Eurodrive partners with Schaeffler
23/07/2025
German drive and automation specialist SEW-Eurodrive has formed a strategic partnership with the motion technology company Schaeffler to expand its digital services. It is expected that maintenance teams in particular will benefit from the partnership.
The two companies view the partnership as a digital extension of the close integration that already exists in the mechanical design of SEW-Eurodrive motors and other products that use Schaeffler rolling bearings.
For example, SEW-Eurodrive will use Schaeffler’s Optime wireless condition monitoring system to provide customers with detailed information on the health of their machines and bearings. Data will be collected via wireless vibration sensors, which transmit data securely to a gateway via a mesh network. This information is then sent to the Optime cloud, where it is analysed automatically and converted into values and alarms. The data can then be used by SEW’s DriveRadar APPredict digital platform to provide vital information on temperature, oil condition and other key equipment parameters.
Users will be given recommendations for action and alarms based on Schaeffler’s expertise in rolling bearings and machine dynamics and combined with SEW’s experience of drive technologies.
