Most of our clients use Rexroth electric motion control in industrial applications: printing, packaging, sheet metal, textiles, and the like. If you use Rexroth drive and control technology in that setting, you might not be aware that Rexroth also moves the movies. Some of Rexroth’s credits: Spider-Man, Master & Commander, Titanic, Jurassic Park, The Perfect… Read more »
Rexroth’s Bethlehem, Pennsylvania plant has received platinum certification in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Superior Energy Performance program. Rexroth has been working hard on energy efficiency for as long as we’ve known them, so we know the Bethlehem facility’s new award from the Department of Energy is well deserved. The facility began by establishing baselines,… Read more »
Unlike the U.S., Japan has an official Robot Strategy. It consists of three major initiatives: 1. Make Japan the world’s center of robot innovation by improving robot creation skills across the nation. 2. Make Japan the world leader in actually using robots in more settings, not just. 3. Make Japan a leader in robotics IoT…. Read more »
“Safety first” is a great motto when it comes to any machinery, but we’re especially conscious of it with autonomous vehicles. In fact, even though driverless cars have better safety stats than cars with human drivers, polls of drivers routinely find that most of us aren’t ready to trust them. Outgoing Secretary of Transportation Anthony… Read more »
What’s driving demand for servo motors as we move into 2017? A recent report on the industrial motion control market identifies four factors that are expected to cause continued increase in demand for servo motors within this market. First, there’s the increasing urbanization and industrialization in developing countries. China, India and other global players have… Read more »
Robots are the norm in industrial contexts. We’ve also gotten used to the idea that they’ll soon be the norm for plenty of other kinds of jobs, replacing humans in work roles from models to fast food workers. But would you want a robot as a supervisor? Harvard Business Review came up with some pros… Read more »
A recent study found that parents using a dosing cup to give their young children liquid medicine made mistakes in the dosage 43% of the time. If they used an oral syringe, the percentage of inaccurate doses fell to 16%. 20% of the errors in the study were serious overdoses — at least twice the… Read more »
President-elect Donald Trump promised $7,000,000 in tax cuts to air conditioning manufacturer Carrier of Illinois, and Carrier in return promised to keep about 800 jobs in the U.S. But carrier is planning to invest $16 million in a stateside factory as part of the deal, and that investment will go mostly into automation. How many… Read more »
Enjoy foreign films? Here’s one that demonstrates once again that Rexroth is involved in motion control in all the coolest places. The western pillar of the Eiffel Tower needed an update for its elevator. It was essential that the new technology fit the original and remain true to the original intent, but it was also… Read more »
The rising costs of materials and energy are significant concerns in manufacturing today. At the same time, the pressure to use greener technologies, from government regulations, retailers, and end-users alike, is affecting manufacturing more deeply than ever before. Kill two birds with one stone by tapping into the circular economy. The circular economy is, at… Read more »
