Rexroth electric industrial motion control powers plenty of packaging machines. Smart factories connect machinery and humans. Now packaging is connecting with consumers, too. A Tostitos bag has a breathalyzer feature — when users have had too much to drink, a blue steering wheel on the bag turns red and shows the message: “Don’t drink and… Read more »
Bosch Rexroth was the headline sponsor at the Industry 4.0 Summit at the Manchester Central Convention Center in the United Kingdom. Rexroth leaders gave presentations and the company showed off some new smart factory ideas. A sampling of the concepts being demonstrated at this, the first Industry 4.0 conference of its kind in the U.K.:… Read more »
Bosch, as in Bosch Rexroth, the parent company of the manufacturers of Rexroth and Indradrive electric motion control systems, makes a smart-car accessory called a drivelog dongle. The Bosch Drivelog Connector OBD-II dongle, to be exact. Users of the dongle can easily pair it with the Drivelog Connect phone app, using bluetooth technology. The app… Read more »
Reshoring is happening, but not as quickly as we might like. One of the major reasons is the weakness of the supply chain in the U.S. It’s basic economics. One quarter of U.S. factories headed overseas during the Great Offshoring. Demaqnd for parts and raw materials fell sharply in the U.S., and suppliers for those… Read more »
PancakeBot will not solve the problem of world hunger, bring about world peace, or even get your breakfast on the table faster and more accurately than your painstaking manual methods. So what’s it good for? PancakeBot allow you to program a specialized 3-D printer to make any image you like from pancake batter. Different amounts… Read more »
Rexroth’s ActiveCockpit software has won Special Mention in the Human Interface Category of the prestigious German Design Award. The German Design Council, the organization that presents the German Design Award, was impressed by the focus on employee experience that is central to Rexroth software. ActiveCockpit collects production data and shares a visualization on a user-friendly… Read more »
Indramat, Indradrive, Indraworks, Indralogic, Indradyne, Indramotion, Indracontrol… the list goes on and on. What’s this Indra, and what’s the difference among all the various forms of Indra- motion control? To get the answer, we have to go back to the mid 20th century. In 1958, a company called “Gesellschaft zur INDustrialisierung-RAtionalisierung und AutoMATisierung” came… Read more »
Rexroth has amazing demonstrations of Industry 4.0 smart factories in operation in locations from Germany to India. Rexroth is also a strong presence at manufacturing trade shows, from the UK to Vietnam. If international travel is not on your current schedule, you may be able to catch the roadshow. Four to five stops are scheduled… Read more »
Remember the battle between Beta and VHS? Maybe you don’t. Netflix won. Rexroth wasn’t involved in that fight, but they’re ready for the equivalent tech battle shaping up in the Internet of Things. Maciej Kranz, author of Building the Internet of Things: Implement New Business Models, Disrupt Competitors, Transform Your Industry, used the Beta/VHS comparison… Read more »
The United States has been reshoring for some years now, bringing manufacturing back from China to the United States. Or has it? A report from A. T. Kearney says that there has been less reshoring activity than offshoring activity for the past four years. “The manufacturing import ratio is calculated by dividing manufactured goods imports… Read more »
