WITTENSTEIN galaxie
WITTENSTEIN galaxie

WITTENSTEIN galaxie

With the maintenance-free Galaxie®, WITTENSTEIN has reenvisioned the concept of mechanical gearing. The result: a fundamentally new type of backlash-free gear unit. The maintenance-free, unique kinematics maintains almost complete surface contact of every tooth during power transmission. As a result, the backlash-free Galaxie® drive systems and gearboxes with hollow shafts achieve previously unimaginable performance data. These include extreme torque density, torsional rigidity, low synchronization error, high positioning accuracy and absolute freedom from backlash. Compared to involute or cycloidal gear technology, the Galaxie technology enables maintenance-free backlash over its entire service life.

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Backlash-free GALAXIE®

The Galaxie® is a hollow shaft drive with lifelong zero backlash, maintenance-free use and maximum precision, based on three radically new ideas...

Superior on principle

The practically wear-free teeth of the Galaxie technology enables maintenance-free use over the entire service life. 
This also convinces our customers...
 

40% increase in productivity due to low vibration.
Profiroll Technologies
Highest manufacturing quality with 10 % more dynamics.
Electroimpact
Zero backlash unchanged after 5 years of use.
Profiroll Technologies
Hysteresis measurements during operation due to extensive sensor technology.
STAMA Maschinenfabrik

Product variants

An ingenious concept available as a hollow shaft actuator, coaxial or angled staged gearbox solution. Customer-specific adaptations of our hollow shaft drives open up the perfect fit for high-performance applications.

Galaxie® D

Hollow-shaft gearmotor, axially integrated permanent magnet servo motor with standard sensor systems

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  • Matched drive system as complete solution from a single source
  • Hollow shaft for feeding through a variety of media
  • Simple connection to standard industrial controllers
  • Robust and precise output bearings
  • Optional: water cooling, holding brake and sensor technology

Galaxie® G

Backlash-free, maintenance free gearbox with optional coaxial planetary input stage and adapter plate for mounting on standard industrial servo motors used in high precision machine design

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  • Diverse range of transmission ratios
  • Simple integration in highly compact installation spaces
  • Robust and precise output bearings
  • Bolting options on both sides

Galaxie® GS

Compact, configurable, backlash-free gear box with a hollow shaft and flange input interface

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  • Diverse range of transmission ratios
  • Simple integration in highly compact installation spaces
  • Robust and precise output bearings

Galaxie® GH

Galaxie® Right Angle Gearbox with hollowshaft, integrating a hypoid input stage and adapter plate for mounting on standard industrial servo motors used in high precision machine design

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  • Diverse range of transmission ratios
  • Simple integration in highly compact installation spaces
  • Robust and precise output bearings

Galaxie® miniaturized

Compact hollow-shaft gearbox with highest torsional rigidity and torque density in the smallest footprint
 

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GALAXIE®

The backlash-free and maintenance-free precision gear represents an ideal fit in industries such as machine tool, packaging, semiconductor manufacturing and machining robotics. The Galaxie® drive system is used in customized solutions as well as in swivel bridges, rotary indexing tables, turrets, milling heads, rotary tables, A-, B-, and C-axes, and rotary axes.

Significantly higher cutting performance in CNC machines
Much shorter feed-through times in lathes
Shorter rivet head decay times on riveting systems

Further Applications

A disruptive innovation

In contrast to commercially available cycloid or involute gears, the disruptive Galaxie technology enables absolute zero backlash over the entire service life.

The scientific proof that Galaxie® is an independent gearbox class and its successful use in high performance engineering are rapidly establishing our invention as a firm fixture in research and teaching. We asked three professors to give us their expert opinion on the new gearbox class. There was unanimous agreement that Galaxie® is a revolutionary innovation. 

Prof. Dr. Thomas Schaeffer

Head of the Laboratory of Multibody Dynamics within the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at OTH Regensburg

Prof. Dr. Karsten Stahl

Head of the Institute of Machine Elements, Gear Research Centre (FZG) of the Technical University of Munich

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Fleischer

Director of Machines, Equipment and Process Automation at the Institute of Production Science (wbk) at KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Multiple award-winning innovation

The combination of the technical properties of the disruptive galaxy technology – backlash-free, maintenance-free, torsional stiffness and torque density – result in an award-winning gear system.

Superior gearboxes and drive systems

WITTENSTEIN galaxie develops, produces and sells radically innovative gearboxes and drive systems based on a totally new functional design principle. With this unique expertise, we are the global leader in rotary mechatronic drive technologies.

These innovations help our customers designing machinery with vast performance parameters to secure their competitive core-advantages for the future. Our solutions enable products to  be manufactured in a particularly efficient and resourceful way. 

Tobias Burger, Managing Director of WITTENSTEIN galaxie GmbH

From an idea to a separate subsidiary

2006

  • Work begins on the development of a fundamentally new gearbox concept.
  • The first patents are awarded.

2008

  • The revolutionary gearbox is named Galaxie®. Its toothing with a logarithmic spiral resembles a galaxy in outer space.

2010

  • First use of the new transmission in the SHEFEX II sounding rocket. Four Galaxie® gearboxes are key components of the flight control system.

2012

  • Galaxie® is installed in cold rolling machines – the first time it has been used in an industrial application. The first gearboxes are still running smoothly.

2014

  • Development of the first motor-gearbox systems.

2015

  • Galaxie® is unveiled at the Hannover Messe.
  • The groundbreaking innovation wins the Hermes Award 2015.
  • First international customer project are launched.

2016

  • Der Innovationspreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft geht an Galaxie®. WITTENSTEIN ist Sieger in der Kategorie „Mittelständische Unternehmen“.

2018

  • Galaxie® is inducted into the “Circle of Excellence” of the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2018, the Federal President’s award for Innovation in Science and Technology leading to application-ready products.

2019

  • The research and academic communities recognize Galaxie® as an independent gearbox class. 
  • Expanded portfolio: Galaxie® is now available in 4 variants and 5 different sizes.

2020

  • WITTENSTEIN galaxie GmbH is founded.

2021

  • The portfolio is further expanded with the Galaxie® accuracy line.

2022

  • Size 190 from the Galaxie® accuarcy line starts series production with the customer Index-Werke GmbH & Co. KG Hahn & Tessky. 

2023

  • Market launch of the miniaturized Galaxie® gearboxes
  • The innovation wins the Surgical Robotics in the Groundbreaking Technology Award category

And the story is still continuing...