System technology for lift trucks

ZF product systems always match the particular market-specific requirements. Topics such as standardization and flexibility, process orientation in customer-supplier-relationships, comfort or ecological compatibility play a decisive role, no matter whether electric lift trucks or warehouse trucks are involved. ZF is substantially pushing ahead the development of lift-truck driveline technology.

Loads of new ideas

In its quest for groundbreaking technologies, ZF has developed product innovations for electric lift trucks that set new standards:

• System expansion for electric steering
  This plug-and-play solution for electric steering for front-driven 3-wheel lift trucks is a joint project with ZAPI, the market leader for electronic controls.
• Enhanced performance for ERGOMAT GP 15-25
  35% more performance, lower noise emissions, greater user-friendliness: The new generation of this successful drive concept for electric counterbalance lift trucks will in the future provide our customers with a flexible modular system with significant improvements.
• Dual-motor axle system ERGOMAT GPA 35
  High driving power for lift trucks in a compact unit. This AC drive system is especially suited to maneuverable vehicles of the 3.5-ton class.
• ERGOMAT GK 26 LD
  This drive system offers more performance, higher ratio, improved noise level and better user-friendliness for rear-driven counterbalance lift trucks.

Optimal productivity

 

ZF offers drive systems for electrically driven lift trucks of up to 6 tons lifting capacity under the name ZF-ERGOMAT. These perfectly matched components consist of: traction motor, brake, drive wheel, frame plate, steering motor and steering sensors, or in other words, everything needed for driving, steering and braking. ZF develops and produces front and rear drives for electric counterbalance lift trucks and complete systems for any kind of warehouse equipment, such as elevating work platforms, electric tractors, cleaning vehicles, driverless transport systems and other special applications, with various alternative solutions (spur gear, helical bevel gear or planetary transmission).

Supreme precision

Lift trucks with combustion engines are real jacks of all trades: In outdoor settings, for example, they must be able quickly transport heavy loads over long distances, and then be able to maneuver those loads with precision and set them down in the tightest of spaces. Gear shifts must take place under full load, without interrupting tractive force and without jerking. With its ERGOPOWER series, ZF offers a complete range of transmissions specially designed for material handling vehicles with combustion engines that need to perform such a wide range of functions. Handling comfort and functional range can be further enhanced by various electronic control options.