IME Aachen GmbH
Institut für Maschinenelemente und Maschinengestaltung
Comprehensive Engineering, made in Aachen
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With a management and expert team consisting of former and current employees of the Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering, IME Aachen GmbH has an excellent network in the Aachen research landscape. This enables the company to bundle its own competencies with the latest research results in the field of drive technology and to transfer them into industrial practice in the form of unique products.
Combining our various fields of expertise, we always aim to define a efficient, comprehensive,
scientifically well-founded project plan for each individual inquiry. Feel free to challenge us!
Design, development and manufacture of test benches for drive trains components
Successful implementation of various large test benches up to a mass of 100 t / length 15 m
Individual Test bench development as a service
Work-In-Progress:
Offering of standard test benches
Development of plain bearing systems, especially for low-speed drive trains
Use of a highly developed simulation process to define the ideal macro and micro geometry of the bearing system
System tests up to 4 MW
Material and tribological system tests on bearing test benches up to ø120 mm
Development and implementation of innovative ideas “from a white sheet of paper up to the first prototype” with systematic design methodology
Continuous validation through the use of model-based development
Transparent communication through the process
Support up until the transition to industrialization
Finite element simulation:
strength verifications, deformation analyses, etc.
Multi-body simulation:
dynamic / acoustic analyses, load determination
EHD simulation:
Plain bearing analysis
Specification/verification, service life and NVH
Drive trains / gearboxes
Plain bearings
Roller bearings
Couplings
Cardan shafts
Lubricants
CAD Design
Dimensioning / Specification
Tolerance analyses
Creation of full production drawings and assembly handbook
Root Cause Analysis
Assessment of drivetrain failures
Material and lubricant analyses
Systematic derivation of damage hypotheses and subsequent investigation using simulation and testing
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IME Aachen GmbH
Institut für Maschinenelemente und Maschinengestaltung
Kaiserstraße 100
52134 Herzogenrath
Germany
+49 (0) 2407 502 319 0
