Rexroth is the first company to be supported by the Romanian government in a new program designed to bring jobs to the European country. The first state grant brings an influx of 16.6 million euros, over $18 million, to expand the current factory in Blaj. Rexroth will be matching the grant with funds for the… Read more »
Our old friend Baxter is one of the stars of this documentary about the future of factories. One of the points made in this video is that demands from retailers and consumers are increasing the need for fully transparent manufacturing. With the best will in the world, it can be hard to monitor for sustainability… Read more »
Information silos — those private collections of data that live on desktops, in file drawers, and even in the heads of individual people — can be a real speed bump in the way of progress. When it comes to manufacturing, silos are sometimes built intentionally for reasons that seem good at the time. Let’s not… Read more »
The Rexroth company began in Germany in 1795 with a hammer mill, so you might say that they’re just going back to their roots with ODiN, the Online Diagnostics Network. Odin, in Germanic mythology, was the father of Thor, whose hammer is well known from movies, even to those of us who didn’t put in… Read more »
Rexroth has a history of collaboration with schools in support of STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education. Rexroth has also been affected by the challenges most U.S. manufacturing companies have faced in hiring qualified workers. Now, in a major collaboration with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system and other industry leaders, Rexroth has built a new center… Read more »
Manufacturers have been talking about automation and jobs for some time. Can robots replace human workers? Will we be able to find any qualified human workers, or will we be stuck with robots? Can robots and humans work together? How will robotic and human coworkers communicate in the new world of Industry 4.0? Economists have… Read more »
We’re in the middle of Industrial Revolution #4, or in less colorful terms, Industry 4.0. Rexroth has won the Industry 4.0 Award from trade journal Produktion and ROI Management Consulting AG. The reason for the award? The hydraulic valve assembly line in Homburg/Saar, Germany, which was determined to be the best example of Industry 4.0… Read more »
There’s a classic pattern: A guy has a rough day at work and his boss yells at him. Upset, the guy goes and yells at an underling. He goes home and yells at his wife. The wife, stressed by the quarrel, yells at the kid. The kid, angry about being yelled at, kicks the cat…. Read more »
A new initiative from the White House aims to increase Americans’ job skills in tech areas, and to speed up both training and hiring to get more Americans into well-paying jobs more quickly. Today, only 16% of high school grads have both the interest and the math background to enter jobs — such as manufacturing… Read more »
