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What is a clean room? How many liters does a hobbock hold? Where are ferrite-free motors used? What about occupational safety? PTM mechatronics products are in demand in numerous industries where they meet a wide range of requirements and challenges. We have created a PTM Wiki so that no questions remain unanswered when visiting our website. This contains the most important terms from the PTM mechatronics cosmos and is intended to serve as a reference work. Because you don't have to know everything - it's enough to know where to find it.

DGUV

What does the DGUV do? How is it made up?

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Emergency stop

A reliable emergency stop is essential, especially for agitators with powerful drives and openly accessible mixing vessels. This is not just about...

Restart protection

In industrial processes where machines with mechanically moving components such as agitators are used, safety is one of the top priorities....

Dual-handle operation

The two-hand control is a safety-relevant control unit that ensures that a machine or system can only be put into operation when...

Occupational exposure limit

Definition The occupational exposure limit value specifies „the concentration of a substance up to which acute or chronic harmful effects on health generally...

ATEX

ATEX is a certificate for devices and machines that allows them to be used in a potentially explosive environment. The abbreviation ATEX...

ATEX zones

ATEX is a certificate for devices and machines that permits their use in a potentially explosive environment. A potentially explosive environment is an...

Gasket

Seals Seals are fundamental components of various technical applications. They protect elements or transitions between components from the ingress of undesirable substances....

Dispersing gas-liquid

Gas-liquid dispersions are fine mixtures of gaseous and liquid substances. The aim is to produce the largest possible substance exchange surface...

Dispersing liquid-liquid

Liquid-liquid dispersions are mixtures of at least two normally immiscible substances. The oil-water emulsion is a well-known example from practice...

Direction of rotation

Since the definition of the direction of rotation of a motor as left-hand or right-hand depends on which side the motor is viewed from, the...

Emulsify

Emulsification is a sub-category of liquid-liquid dispersion. It involves mixing together at least two substances that are not normally soluble in each other. Long-term stable dispersions...