Robotics components require BÖHLER steels with high precision, fatigue strength, and wear resistance. Key quality features include ultra-clean materials, full traceability, controlled heat treatment, and rigorous testing for reliable, high-performance operation.
Robotics applications require materials that ensure high precision, reliability, and long service life under dynamic operating conditions. Components such as joints, gears, actuators, shafts, and structural elements are exposed to cyclic loads, high positioning accuracy requirements, and often varying environmental conditions. Material requirements therefore focus on high fatigue strength, wear resistance, dimensional stability, and excellent machinability to enable tight tolerances. In addition, low weight combined with high stiffness is essential to optimize speed, efficiency, and energy consumption in modern robotic systems.
BÖHLER high-performance steels and alloys are specifically engineered to meet these advanced requirements. Alloyed steels, case-hardening steels, nitriding grades, and stainless steels provide tailored combinations of strength, toughness, and surface hardness. Produced using advanced melting and refining technologies, BÖHLER materials ensure exceptional cleanliness, low inclusion content, and homogeneous microstructures, which are critical for precision and fatigue performance. Key quality features include strict control of chemical composition, certified traceability, and precisely controlled heat treatment processes to achieve defined mechanical and surface properties. Additional surface engineering enhances wear resistance and friction behavior. Comprehensive testing, including fatigue, dimensional verification, and non-destructive inspection, ensures consistent quality. BÖHLER materials enable precise, durable, and high-performance robotic systems.
BÖHLER N360 is a corrosion resistant, martensitic stainless steel, produced using the pressurized-ESR-process ( P-ESR) . Compared to conventionally produced Cr and CrMo steels, BÖHLER N360 offers improved corrosion resistance and toughness properties as well as high hardness and compressive strength. It is typically used for anti-friction bearing components e.g. bearings, ball screws and wear resistant components for use in the engineering and medical industry, e.g. knives and other cutting tools, shafts, plastic extrusion, screw driver, drills, fasteners and engine-components, requiring resistance to both corrosion and wear with hardness not lower than 58 HRC after hardening and tempering, but usage is not limited to such applications.
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