What you don’t repair you destroy is the title of a new Rexroth report on maintenance in the UK. It might have messages for the rest of us, too. Alastair Johnstone, managing director of Bosch Rexroth UK, said that the issues pointed out in the report could affect British productivity. What are the issues in… Read more »
Such strength! Such agility! Such grace! Such refinement! We’re not talking about the dancers. The Bolshoi Theatre, a World Heritage site first opened in 1825, needed an update for its stage technology. Over a period of six years, Rexroth renovated all the drive and control systems for the upper stage and lower stage machinery of… Read more »
Bosch Rexroth makes the best motion control on the planet. If you have older Rexroth electric servo drives, servo motors, and controls, you might be surprised to see the name “Indramat” on them. Don’t be alarmed. We can provide support, including warrantied factory repair or reman, for your legacy Rexroth motion control components. When it’s… Read more »
On the one hand, we hear that reshoring is huge, that we’re bringing jobs back home, and that the global economy is being affected by the loss of U.S. business interests abroad. On the other hand, we hear that companies trying to source manufacturing in the U.S. are discouraged: we’ve lost our capacity for sourcing… Read more »
I told you about our experience with the Navy. We’ve worked with the Air Force, too. It started with a troubleshooting call. The customer had a DKR drive that had blown several internal boards (loss of magic smoke), and there was nothing to do but bring it in for repair. We gave the customer the… Read more »
I will be the first to tell you that I don’t particularly like working with the government. Our company got stiffed by the US Navy a few years back and it has left a bad taste in our collective mouth ever since. For a while, we just refused to service the accounts, but patriotism and… Read more »
“Every work of music contains a set of instructions for creating different but highly related replications of itself,” says David Cope, who happens to be both a programmer and a musician. French researchers have been working for years to teach robots to analyze musical works and use the patterns they discern to create new tunes…. Read more »
China’s manufacturing sector reported 6.1% growth over the weekend, not the expected 6.4% growth. Stocks slumped and investors are worried. In 1990, China was responsible for about 3% of global manufacturing; now it’s doing about a quarter of all the manufacturing in the world, making it the biggest manufacturing player of all. But China’s economy… Read more »
Among the major trends in manufacturing: speed. Not the speed of throughput or the speed of an assembly line in particular, but the speed of the production cycle overall. As consumers and retailers expect more customization, being able to produce large quantities of one object is less desirable in a manufacturer than being able to… Read more »
There’s nothing quite like the screech of machinery seizing up, the chatter of machine operators standing around the machinery describing to one another what they think is wrong, and the shouting of the floor manager echoing down the halls as he heads your way. Somewhere in all that metal there is something that has gone… Read more »
