Flender One Now Covers All Major Gearbox Applications
The Flender One platform now covers all major industrial gearbox applications. With the latest addition of a universal housing concept, Flender One can now be configured for vertical, horizontal, or any mounting orientation. This advancement opens up entirely new applications that were previously impossible to serve with the platform, including agitators and mixers in chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industries, water screw pumps and aerators in water and wastewater treatment, separators, and travel drives in material handling and logistics.
Combined with existing coverage for pumps, paper machines, conveyor systems, overhead cranes, and dozens of other applications, Flender One now addresses virtually every major industrial gearbox requirement. Each gearbox is fully individualized to exact customer specifications while maintaining the delivery speed and cost efficiency of a standard catalog product.
At the heart of Flender One's success is its online configurator at flender.com/one. The system fundamentally changes how customers specify industrial gearboxes. Traditional selection processes require extensive technical knowledge and weeks of engineering time. Flender One customers simply enter three parameters: application, power requirement, and rotation speed.
"We've eliminated the traditional trade-off between customization and speed," explains Dr. Jan Reimann, project lead, Flender One. "Customers no longer need to choose between a standard catalog product that doesn't quite fit or waiting weeks for a custom solution. They tell us what they want to achieve, and our intelligent system designs the perfect solution within minutes, delivering complete 3D CAD models, technical drawings, and comprehensive documentation. A digital twin of the drive is immediately available for the development of the plant."
The configurator draws on a digital engineer with more than 125 years of Flender application expertise, automatically dimensioning each gearbox precisely for its intended use. This approach eliminates the chronic over-dimensioning that industry data shows wastes up to 50 percent of material in traditional industrial gearboxes, while still ensuring optimal performance and reliability for the specific application.
"Flender One proves that digital transformation unlocks entirely new business models," states Andreas Evertz, CEO of Flender. "We're offering highly individualized products with the speed and cost efficiency of series production – something previously thought impossible in manufacturing. This approach creates a competitive advantage and serves as a blueprint for industrial transformation."
