Maintenance-free for quiet, continuous
operation in vending machines

The possible uses of automatic machines have become more diverse and with increasing mechanisation, many more innovations can be expected. Vending machines, for example, are no longer merely used to sell things, they also serve as advertising surfaces and can gather user data for monitoring purposes. They have long been a part of everyday life and, in most cases, are hardly noticeable any more. Above all when they work reliably and without problems. Bearings and gears in payment systems, shelves that can be pulled out with linear guides, electric linear systems that move scanners or product dispensers, energy chains that carry cables: all these components are expected to meet high requirements with regard not only to their performance but also to their design and they are often in use around the clock. Our maintenance-free, high-performance polymers ensure that vending machines, which are expected to work autonomously, are not permanently dependent on maintenance assistance from us human beings.

Benefits of igus products:

• Maintenance-free
• Cost-effective
• Save installation space and weight
• Easy assembly
• Complete systems or individual components from batch size 1
• Service life calculation
• Low noise and low vibration

E2 micro e-chains

chainflex CF130.UL & CF140.UL

drylin E linear robots

drylin E single axes with a motor

drylin N low-profile linear guides

drylin lead screw technology

Lubrication- and maintenance-free components for the autonomous robo kitchen

Healthy fast food prepared and served by a cooking robot: for their autonomous robo kitchen, the designers at the Canadian start-up RoboEatz were looking for components that are suitable for food processing and as cost-saving as they are durable and low-maintenance. Energy supply systems, various bearings and drive components from igus are the perfect solution here...

Durable and low-maintenance: Apiro gearbox solution in an ice cream vending machine

The sec°mat IC One, made by Bochum-based Seco Manufaktur, turns the serving of ice cream and the sales process into an event. Modular Apiro robot kinematics not only ensure long-lasting, low-maintenance operation of the vending machine, but also that special wow effect for users ...

... other success stories

Drive systems and energy supply systems in bar robots, linear robots in WC cassette cleaning machines, and guide systems in coffee machines: Discover more applications from our customers in the vending machine industry, where our motion plastics are demonstrating their advantages.