Power tool
As power tools, all tools are called that are used by an electric drive and thus provide a significant simplification of the services to job performance. For hand led, portable devices, the engine an integral part of the tool dar. Important power tools are electric drills and grinders and jigsaws and circular saws, as well as, inter alia, cordless screwdriver screwing tools are manufactured with electric drives. Power tools are available in wire-bound and unbound line equipment. Without direct connection to the power grid, an accumulator is used as an energy source. In this way, increase the mobility of cordless tools in the performance of work. Manufacturers offer a wide range of garden equipment and devices in the craft or industrial sector. Actually one should speak of electromechanical tool because these tools always consist of an electric drive and a mechanical work equipment.
Manufacturer (selection)
- AEG Electric Tools, Hong Kong
- Black & Decker, USA
- Bosch ( Brand: Skil, Dremel ), Germany
- DeWalt, USA
- Dolmar, Germany
- Duss, Germany
- Fine, Germany
- Festo ( Brand: Festool ), Germany
- Hilti, Liechtenstein
- Hitachi, Japan
- Kress, Germany
- Mafell, Germany
- Makita, Japan
- Metabo, Germany
- Panasonic, Japan
- Stihl, Germany
- Suhner, Switzerland, Germany
- Trumpf, Germany
- Würth, Germany
- Various power tools
Belt sander
Jigsaw
Cordless Screwdriver
Electric screwdriver
Scroll Saw
History
The history of electric tools goes back to the year 1867. In this Wilhelm Emil Fein founded with his brother Carl a " workshop for electrical and physical apparatuses." C. & E. Fein was founded. In 1886, Robert Bosch opened the " Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering" in Stuttgart. A year later the General Electric Company was founded. Eight years later AEG presents the first portable and electric powered drills. Another three years later, these machines get a solid metal housing. Although presented AEG 1908, the first drill together with pistol grip but Black & Decker (as The Black & Decker Manufacturing Company founded in 1910 ) is replaced by 1917, the corresponding patent. Another five years later, an electrically powered circular saw of Edmond Michel is developed. In 1929, the first angle grinder FLEX - brand name is the genus name - presented. In the following years, all manufacturers are developing new equipment and tools: 1932 rapidly rotating Dremel 1939 first electric hammer from AEG, first jigsaw from Bosch, 1950 Electric Hand Saw from Metabo.
Industry Power Tool Manufacturers
The sector "Manufacture of portable hand held power tools " ( power tools, and power tools ) is performed according to the classification of economic activities in the statistics as part of the field of machine tool manufacturing, but differs both in terms of markets and production concerns clearly from the classical machine tools.
The power tool industry has in Baden-Württemberg and in particular in the region of Stuttgart on a nationwide unique concentration. Almost 40 % of the world market are companies such as AEG Electric Tools ( Winnenden ), Baier ( Asperg ), Bosch ( Leinfelden, Murrhardt ), fine (Stuttgart, Schwäbisch Gmünd ) Festool ( Wendlingen, Neidlingen ), Flex ( Steinheim ), Metabo ( nürtingen ) realized. Looking beyond other elements of the value chain, such as the ramifications of these power tool manufacturer with major suppliers in Baden- Württemberg, such as switching equipment manufacturers, fixture manufacturers and gear manufacturer, it may at least be spoken of approaches for a " cluster power tools Baden -Württemberg".
This value chain is under the strong pressure of globalization. By early 2006, the market for power tools by two trends was marked: on the one hand a shrinking domestic market, on the other hand rising global sales volumes, while simultaneously decreasing sales value. The manufacturers of power tools responded with extensive restructuring measures that do not make even before downsizing and relocation of production halt. Since spring 2006, the industry, however, a very positive development, there is a boom in the power tools, which is reflected in the growth in both the volume and the net proceeds. However, all in all, the competition among manufacturers still struggle marked by fierce price and can be characterized as a global cut-throat competition. From the perspective of the German manufacturer, the question of international competitiveness quite similar in how classical machine will decide based on leadership in innovation and production efficiency. A challenge and opportunity, the increasing demand for battery-powered devices dar. While U.S. manufacturers as well as Japanese largely outdated and polluting NiCd batteries obstruct, German manufacturer with almost all the latest Li- Ion battery technology are represented in the market.