Creating art is clearly a human thing, right? It takes inspiration, forethought and planning, detailed execution, and emotion to make a great piece of art. But what if an ordinary welding robot, with the help of some humans and computers, could turn art into an algorithm and pick up a brush? That’s just what some… Read more »
At this year’s Hannover Messe, the leading trade fair for industrial technology, Rexroth was awarded the Hermes Award for Innovation because of their work with PLC and IT through the Open Core Engineering program. The idea behind Open Core Engineering is that flexibility of language and platform while still meeting standards can drive innovation fast… Read more »
May brought new regulations for robot safety in collaborative environments from the the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) in conjunction with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012 updates the last standards set in 1999 and now puts American standards on par with European standards. Among other things, this allows models built to standards in Europe to be… Read more »
President Obama has called for an increase in the minimum wage, and fast food workers have been striking in hopes of increasing their wage to $15.00 an hour — roughly twice the current minimum wage. Naturally, commentators are forecasting all kinds of consequences: Unskilled workers will be replaced by more skilled workers. All wages will… Read more »
If you have IndraDrive MI units you should be daisy chaining your drives together to save money by cutting wiring costs, reducing cabinet space to a minimum, and speeding up installation and cable maintenance for your servo motors and drives. If you’re not daisy chaining your equipment and it’s capable of it, you’re wasting money…. Read more »
A production line is like a highway: if something goes wrong or is bottlenecking at one point, it backs up the rest of the whole production. If you have any kind of fluctuation in different parts of your production line, servos can help solve some of the biggest traffic flow problems that occur when it… Read more »
We all know what a blinking red light means, right? Ironically, on many HMI displays red means run, not stop. On others it means the operator needs to do something immediately. And on yet another system it might mean an emergency stop. There are so many things on HMI screens that it’s really hard to… Read more »
Rexroth has been on the cutting edge of wind power technology since its first beginnings in the early 1980s, says a new article by Drive & Control Magazine. Wind turbines require safe and efficient use of reliable machinery to be profitable and being able to make minute adjustments automatically is important for wind turbine success…. Read more »
Don’t you love all the minute details that go into making the perfect pint, from the mechanical wonders of bottling to the science behind brewing? This ad recognizes that a lot of really big machines go into producing mass market beers. Servos are all throughout the process of making beer and Modelo even uses Rexroth… Read more »
