Supporting customers with a complete industrial automation ecosystem

Veröffentlichte die 10/12/2025

At SPS in Nuremberg, the leading event dedicated to smart and digital automation, Bonfiglioli presented its complete mechatronics ecosystem, combining gearmotors, inverters, and sensors with automation software tools. Special attention was paid to the recently expanded Axia drive family. The range on display at the trade fair was rounded out by five mechatronic packages for applications such as conveyors, palletizers, flow pack processes, compact warehouse lifts, and material handling.

The Axia drive family grows

Bonfiglioli expands its popular Axia drive family with the introduction of the new AxiaAgile series. Along with the already established AxiaVert series, AxiaAgile completes the Axia portfolio, making it the ideal solution for a wide range of automation and motion control applications. While AxiaVert is aimed at complex, high-performance applications thanks to its modular architecture, numerous functional safety options, and advanced motion control capabilities, AxiaAgile stands out for its compactness and low cost, making it ideal for general-purpose applications. Based on a variant concept, AxiaAgile is designed to meet diverse application needs and offers dedicated configurations that simplify product selection and reduce design time. The four variants—Basic, Standard, Enhanced, and Advanced—are developed for sensorless or simple closed-loop applications and support various fieldbus systems. AxiaAgile offers integrated Safe Torque Off (STO) functionality, ensuring maximum performance and reliability. The two series share the same industrial design, the same commissioning and diagnostic tools, and a user-friendly software environment (Axia Manager and Axia Manager Mobile), ensuring an intuitive user experience and seamless integration. The use of common accessories and software simplifies configuration, parameterization, and maintenance, while preserving the customer's application expertise. AxiaVert meets the highest standards for STO, SS1, and SBC functional safety and SLS, SLP, and SOS motion safety. It also stands out for its easy integration of EtherCAT FSoE communication, significantly reducing engineering and wiring costs by transmitting all safety communications between the inverter and PLC via fieldbus. With AxiaVert covering power ratings up to 15 kW and AxiaAgile up to 11 kW, the expanded Axia family offers maximum flexibility, scalability, and performance to meet the specific needs of a wide range of industries—from material handling and intralogistics to packaging, textiles, and automated storage systems.

Smart, connected, safe: Bonfiglioli's IoT solutions transform maintenance and system management

Bonfiglioli addresses the key challenges of industrial machinery, such as downtime and high maintenance costs, with IIoT solutions that include Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance services. The IoT platform uses Bonfiglioli sensors to monitor gearboxes and motors, collecting crucial data on performance and energy consumption. These sensors integrate accelerometer, magnetometer, and temperature functions, which are transmitted externally via a gateway designed in-house and installed on the motor. The smart sensors acquire data in real time, identifying problems before they worsen and allowing maintenance to be scheduled only when necessary. An IoT Bench set up at the booth offers live demonstrations of the sensors' activity.

From products to integrated solutions: Bonfiglioli presents its automation software tools

At SPS, Bonfiglioli presented its Automation Manager, a software suite that integrates all the digital tools designed to ensure complete synergy within the Bonfiglioli product portfolio, throughout all phases of the machine lifecycle – from selection to diagnostics. The Automation Manager consists of two macro-sets: Electronic Management Tools, which facilitate the commissioning, operation, monitoring, and diagnostics of Bonfiglioli solutions, and Software Tools, which assist customers in product selection, sizing, and optimization. The Electronic Management Tools include: AxiaManager, dedicated to the configuration, management, and commissioning of Axia family inverters. It allows users to easily parameterize drives, monitor performance, and much more. The IoT Manager, focused on managing the enterprise IoT architecture, allows users to configure connected devices, update firmware and calculation models, and monitor field data. Software Tools include the Smart Sizer, which helps customers select the most suitable components for specific applications by entering parameters such as load, speed, and operating cycle; the Efficiency Tool, which allows comparison of energy performance between different combinations of motors and drives, quantifying consumption, losses, and efficiency. Finally, the Bonfiglioli e-shop, designed to simplify the customer journey, allows online selection and ordering of the entire product range, from gearmotors to gearboxes and inverters. Thanks to the Bonfiglioli Automation Manager, all Bonfiglioli products and software communicate within the same ecosystem, ensuring a simplified and optimized customer experience.

Support for material handling operations thanks to AMRs...

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) are essential for simplifying intralogistics processes. For this sector, Bonfiglioli presents the BlueRoll platform, equipped with a compact, low-voltage, wheel-mounted servo gearmotor from the BMS Series, compatible with electronic drives and capable of integrating 24- or 48-volt batteries. At Nuremberg, visitors were able to see the AMR in action, an autonomous Truck Robot developed to tow trolleys or workbenches weighing up to 250 kg. Its distinctive feature is the innovative lateral coupling system, which offers a range of technical and mechanical advantages, such as safe traction and optimal grip even on uneven surfaces. The motorized wheels and electric drive, designed by Bonfiglioli with a completely tailor-made approach, guarantee efficiency, flexibility, and optimized performance.

... and Bonfiglioli's quality packages

Bonfiglioli offers complete mechatronic packages including motor, gearmotor, and inverter, developed specifically for parcel and post applications. For flow pack processes, Bonfiglioli offers a solution that integrates a BMD synchronous servomotor, an A Series helical gearmotor, and the AxiaVert inverter. The same motor and inverter, but with a different gearbox, are used for palletizers – here the precision planetary gearbox is from the TQ Series, renowned for its high torque density, high load capacity, extreme precision, and low vibration levels. For compact warehouse lifts, the solution integrates, in addition to the BMD motor and AxiaVert, a modular shaft-mounted gearmotor from the F Series, ensuring high efficiency, reliability, and quiet operation. For intralogistics processes, more specifically conveyor belts, the solution presented at SPS combines the EVOX CP helical gearbox with a modular, reliable, and energy-efficient MXN IE3 asynchronous motor and the AxiaVert premium drive. Finally, for smart conveyors, a Series A helical gearmotor was shown combined with a BSR synchronous reluctance motor and a sensorized DGM decentralized inverter.

Bonfiglioli and Selcom: the perfect synergy for advanced mechatronic innovation

Part of the Bonfiglioli Group, Selcom was present at SPS Nuremberg with its customized electronic solutions and a wide range of high-performance mechatronic products and integrated systems, demonstrating its commitment to high industrial standards and customized design. Among the featured products: PLCs, sensors, TFT displays with touch functionality, DC-DC converters for battery-powered applications, inverters, and an induction welding generator—all examples of Selcom's versatility and customer-focused approach. A new product was also highlighted: an industrial PC with 7 Gbit Ethernet ports, capable of managing six different networks, as well as a dedicated commissioning port. Furthermore, the 4 USB ports and the display port ensure excellent connectivity and enormous operational flexibility, demonstrating Selcom's commitment to innovation and advanced integration.

Combining innovation, digital intelligence, and reliability, Bonfiglioli remains a leader in the transformation of industrial automation, supporting customers who aim to create smarter, more efficient, and more connected systems.

The Bonfiglioli Group

Bonfiglioli designs, manufactures, and distributes a wide range of gearmotors, electric motors, planetary gearboxes, and inverters, capable of meeting the most complex needs in the industrial automation, mobile machinery, and renewable energy sectors. The Group offers comprehensive solutions serving more industries and applications than any other gear manufacturer and is a market leader in numerous sectors. Its three business areas—Industry & Automation Solutions, Mobility & Wind Industries, and Selcom Group—deliver the full breadth of experience and expertise acquired over the years in their respective fields of expertise. Founded in 1956, Bonfiglioli operates in 80 countries with 23 sales sites, 17 production facilities, a vast distribution network of over 550 partners, and over 5,000 professionals worldwide. Excellence, innovation, and sustainability are the drivers that drive Bonfiglioli's growth as a company and as a team, and represent the guarantee of the quality of the products and services offered to its customers.

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