Monthly Archives: December 2013

Getting Rexroth Running after Scheduled Downtime

If you’ve been on scheduled downtime and are getting ready to start your Rexroth or Indramat servos back up, there are some steps you should take to make sure everything is ready to start running smoothly for the next year. Rexroth servos can be pretty finicky when they start up for the first time after… Read more »

Merry Christmas from Hyperdyne Systems

We’re positive that Santa must have some really great engineers on his team to deliver all those presents in just one night. Without engineers, things like that just aren’t possible! We think that Santa must have some pretty cool Indramat and Rexroth technology to make it around the world and deliver all the presents in… Read more »

Engineering Fun for Christmas

We hope you are enjoying Christmas celebrations with friends and family this week. While we’re always willing to help if you have problems with your Indramat or Rexroth servo motors and servo drive, we’re pretty sure that you might be ready for a bit of a Christmas break. So enjoy “researching” about our Indramat repair… Read more »

Starting Lockouts and Safety

Indramat and Rexroth servomotors and servo drives have a safety feature called a starting lockout. What does this do? It prevents the servo from starting up again. Why would you want to do that? When you need to work in the dangerous area near a servo, you don’t need to play Dodge the Servo while… Read more »

Indramat and Capacitors

Blown, leaky, or finicky capacitors can be a problem with Indramat and Rexroth drives. Capacitors are an older, more fragile technology that many newer machines have improved on but with older Indramat servo drives, capacitors aren’t an uncommon sight. Capacitors are often little tower-like objects attached to circuit boards. One of the problems you may… Read more »

Indramat and 2014 Business Goals

Are you developing your business goals for 2014? Keeping your Indramat and Rexroth servomotors and servo drives in your sights for your business goals is important when making plans—what happens if you experience downtime? Downtime isn’t something you want but should be something you plan for as part of your business plan for 2014. Without… Read more »

The Coldest Journey Completed

The Coldest Journey, a 2,000 mile trip across the Antarctic in winter, has been completed. The explorers are back safely — in part thanks to the special equipment created for them by Bosch Rexroth — and the work of analyzing the data they’ve gathered begins. A map of the route (showing the planned and the… Read more »