Monthly Archives: June 2017

Rexroth Maintenance Free

Many Rexroth electric industrial motion control components are designed to be maintenance free. Maintenance free servos Most Rexroth servo motors, for example, are completely enclosed. This is important when they’re to be used in washdown environments or other extreme conditions, and it’s one of the reasons that Rexroth motion control systems can be found in… Read more »

Cobots Market

Sure, you’ve got a robot vacuum cleaner and an automatic trash can. But the proportion of robots working outside of factories is minuscule. Industrial settings account for pretty much all the robots now working in the United States. The Bot2Karot shown here is not planting carrots in the average garden. Industrial robots are expected to… Read more »

Sentient Robots?

Pepper, a popular humanoid robot, is designed to identify human emotions and to respond to them. 10,000 of these devices currently work in banks, cruise ships, stores, and bars. The makers recently introduced an app that allows people without programming skills to write scripts for their Pepper robots. Sophia, a lifelike robot famous for saying,… Read more »

Understanding the Industrial Ethernet

There’s Ethernet… and then there’s the industrial Ethernet. One big difference is the distinction between soft and hard deadlines for delivery of information. An ordinary Ethernet connection treats a delivery failure as a total failure. It tried to deliver the information, the information was not delivered, so let’s all move on with our lives. Or… Read more »

Rexroth for Extreme Environments

IndraControl XM has been certified by six boards in America and in Europe for marine environments and offshore installations, including extreme environments. What’s an extreme environment? After all, Rexroth industrial motion control systems have been functioning perfectly in washdown environments for decades. It’s not as though they’re prima donnas requiring ideal conditions for performance. The… Read more »

Solutions to Automation-Induced Job Loss

A new historical study of the effects of technology on the job market over the past 165 years confirms that automation isn’t the threat to human jobs that some would have us believe it is. Certainly, the study found plenty of examples of jobs that disappeared because of technology… and of new jobs that arose… Read more »

Rexroth Gets Coffee on the Table

  Rexroth industrial motion control is an integral part of the Eiffel Tower, the Panama Canal, and NASA spacecraft. Why should anyone get excited about its part in producing coffee pods for those trendy pod-based coffee machines? Because Rexroth is part of a solution to a big problem. Conveyor belts are important to modern manufacturing…. Read more »

Why Isn’t Big Data Shaking Up Manufacturing?

Analyst Nick Heudecker says that only 50% of firms say they want to use big data… and only 15% actually do.  If you’d like some slightly harder data,  a recent PwC survey found that just 30 percent of U.S.-based industrial manufacturing senior executives said that their companies were planning to increase spending on information technology… Read more »