We’re specialists in legacy Rexroth electric motion control systems. We have to admit that some modules are more special than others. One of the most special is the Indramat HDD drive, a servo drive that handles two motors from a single space-saving chassis. Otherwise, it’s essentially the same as the more common HDS drive. Space… Read more »
A new research report has identified five challenges for factories heading out of this decade: Market volatility Material costs Price reduction pressures Labor costs Transportation/logistics costs Examining the industry challenges Market volatility is part of the post-election landscape, but industrial markets are affected by global factors, as well. Manufacturing has been volatile for a while… Read more »
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a reality. It is possible now, as Rexroth has shown in Industry 4.0 factories, to create a smart factory where machines, products, and people communicate directly, gather information, and make decisions based on collected and analyzed data. Now it’s time for standards. The focus in work on IIoT… Read more »
Madeline Gannon is known as “the robot whisperer.” While many of us are getting excited about the possibility of communicating with industrial robots by way of a kiosk or tablet, Gannon has been communicating with them using gestures. Gannon, who has no engineering backgroud, was frustrated by the experience of programming the industrial robots… Read more »
Rexroth is part of a German Industry 4.0 initiative called SmartFactoryKL. Banding together with more than 40 partner companies like IBM and Cisco, Rexroth is working in research and consulting to create the manufacturer-independent smart factory of the future. Here are the elements identified by SmartFactoryKL as essentials for Industry 4.0: Smart objects: Instead of… Read more »
One of president-elect Trump’s most popular campaign promises was his promise to bring back manufacturing jobs to the U.S. Can it be done? We’ve seen reshoring going on, and U.S. manufacturing is reaching new heights of productivity, but bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. doesn’t always mean bringing back manufacturing jobs. How is U.S. manufacturing… Read more »
Chad DeJong wrote in Industry Week, “We need to apply our knowledge and perceptions of social media to the shop floor, in which trends and environmental conditions can be continuously monitored and dynamically presented to any user in any location with a mobile device. Data collected from factory equipment can help determine the health of… Read more »
In the 1960s, packaging was revolutionized by the bottom loading case packer, using MKD motors with absolute encoder feedback. To the uninitiated, “bottom loading case packer” might sound like a Shakespearean style insult. In reality, it’s a machine that can do a task that previously had required human workers. This new machine, created by Sabel… Read more »
Innovations in technology often come from the mavericks, guys in garages playing with motors. There have been some individuals trying out new ideas for self-driving cars. One of these pioneers might be the guy who brings the first successful autonomous vehicle to market, or many of them may be able to sell new tech… Read more »
