IoT — the internet of things — is the big deal in manufacturing this year, taking top place in crystal balls all over the industrial world. Rexroth is making it easier to make the dream a reality. The big news, which was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month, is the IoT Gateway…. Read more »
IndraWorks is a software program for Rexroth servo drives that contains everything you need for setting up and starting modern drives, from engineering to implementation, including integration of drives with third-party applications. If your HMI or PLC are having issues, you might need access to IndraWorks to resolve the issue, depending on the age of… Read more »
Rexroth servo motors can be used in really creative ways to get jobs done. If you’ve made some creative changes in your industrial motion control system, though, it could mean that the axis of rotation on your Rexroth servo motor isn’t lined up with the center of mass. As your manufacturing processes change slightly over… Read more »
We all know the story of the tortoise and the hare—slow and steady wins the race. It can feel like the rabbit style is the only way towards success in the manufacturing world with Rexroth and Indramat servos where speed is a top priority. But taking time for scheduled downtime can keep your overall costs… Read more »
According to a new report from Markets & Markets, the motion control market is expected to grow to an impressive 22.84 billion dollars by 2022, seeing an annual growth rate of 5.5% between 2016 and 2022. Four factors are credited with the growth of the market: Adoption of advanced and automated processes for factory automation… Read more »
Early sci-fi featured travelers in space who had the good fortune of meeting alien life forms who spoke English. As audiences became more sophisticated, sci-fi creators came up with the Universal Translator, a device that caused everything said by an alien life form to be translated into English. This device also translated English into alien… Read more »
The new reality of manufacturing is that there will no longer be hundreds of low-skilled humans toiling away at the assembly line. The jobs for people will be jobs that require more specific training. Manufacturers are already seeing problems with a lack of training in workers, and labor groups claim that those manufacturers are not… Read more »
Concerns about the security of the Internet of Things are one of the stumbling blocks slowing down Industry 4.0. But this may just be a confusion between the Internet of Things in general and the Industrial Internet of Things. The recent 2017 Consumer Electronics show had plenty of IoT goodies to show off. How about… Read more »
The Rexroth Road Show has presented the new face of industrial automation to more than 1,200 people at 125 companies in the northern half of the U.S. since it reached our shores in June. Rexroth’s traveling show is for engineers, and it’s a big hit wherever it goes. So what’s the Rexroth Road Show? It’s… Read more »
Rexroth strutted plenty of drive and control stuff at FABTECH 2016 and at PACK EXPO 2016. Among the most popular demonstrations at FABTECH were the newest scalable, computer numerically controlled (CNC) solutions for fabricating and welding. The new IndraMotion equipment can use literally up to hundreds of axes, allowing a level of precision that cannot… Read more »
