MODULAR HYDRAULICS
“SELECTION TOOLS ARE POPULAR ON
OUR WEBSITE, AS ARE CAD FILES OF OUR
PRODUCTS, WHICH CAN BE DIRECTLY
IMPLEMENTED INTO OEM PROJECTS”
Johannes Odenwald, sales engineer, Hawe Hydraulik
now offers cost-efficient standard
components with the C-Line. Their
range of functions, Odenwald says,
is precisely tailored to the target
applications and cost-optimized.
Another focus is the compact and
lightweight design of components.
The E-Line includes Hawe
Hydraulik’s entire product range
for connectivity, interface
management and applicationspecific
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programming. These
include hardware components,
mobile controls and sensors for
many applications, ideally matched
to the hydraulic controls.
The fourth line is the S-Line.
“These are perfectly customized,
individual, hydraulic-mechatronic
solutions and complete systems for
over 70 industries worldwide,” says
Odenwald.
How to select hydraulic components
Another reason for splitting the
Hawe range into four lines is related
to the initial question: ‘How do you
design a hydraulic system?’ Today,
the majority engineers prefer to
select the hydraulic components
online, Hawe has found. “They want
to have online access to all
documents and engineering data
for products like manifolds,” says
Odenwald. “Selection tools are
popular on our website, as are
CAD files of our products, which
can be directly implemented into
OEM projects.” This means the
sales staff are more and more
employed for (and engaged in) indepth
discussions, for engineering
hydraulic systems in co-operation
with the manufacturer of
mobile machines.
Reduction of complexity
To sum up, modular design of
hydraulic systems is solving different
problems and challenges. It offers
the possibility to put many functions
into practice without increasing the
variety of components. It reduces
complexity (and cost), while also
allowing for additional functions
and choices. These advantages are
even more effective when additional
drive technologies – mainly
electrical and electronic systems –
are integrated into this engineering
approach (figure 7). iVT
FIGURE 6: Systems suppliers,
such as Hawe are aiming
to offer a complete set
of hydraulic components
– high-end as well as the
cost-sensitive ones
FIGURE 7: From the
customer’s view, it is
even better to integrate
electronics and hydraulics
– as illustrated in this Hawe
setup – instead of reducing
the systems approach to
hydraulics alone
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