Monthly Archives: December 2017

Indradrive Control of Third-Party Motors

Can your IndraDrive Control work with third-party motors? The answer is yes, but be careful. Many factories use Rexroth modules from different time depths together. With careful configuration, there’s no reason to update all your machinery when you update one piece. Retrofitting legacy units with new sensors can breathe new life into older machinery. Reman… Read more »

The Golden Age of Robotics

 Wired magazine reports that 2017 ushered in the Golden Age of Robotics, which should really take off in the coming year. They point to the food delivery robots and household robots, not one of which can reliably make you a cup of coffee yet. Self-driving vehicles are a reality, though, and robot coworkers are… Read more »

Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays! We hope you won’t have any emergencies, but if you do, we’re ready to help.

Cabinet-Free Servo Systems: How and Why?

Experts in industrial automation agree: getting servo drives out of the cabinet is important. What’s wrong with cabinets? Servo drives are kept in cabinets for protection. Avoiding overheating and damage from dirt extends the life of your servo system and keeps your system from malfunctioning. The controlled environment of a cooled cabinet provides a high… Read more »

Rexroth Gets into Hot Water

More accurately, Rexroth helped venerable tea company Yamamotoyama get out of hot water with their product packaging machinery. Yamamotoyama began as a company in 1690, giving it an even longer pedigree than Rexroth.One of their most important accomplishments was to make green tea available to everyone, not just to the wealthy. They still specialize in… Read more »

Rexroth Motion Control Packaging

Rexroth motion control systems are very popular in packaging applications, but that’s not what we’re talking about today. Today we’re talking about the way Rexroth components are packaged when they’re sent to your facility. The picture above shows how it’s supposed to be done. When a component comes from the Rexroth facility to your facility,… Read more »

Find Your Configuration

We get calls that start off, “I’ve got a problem with a machine. It says ‘Rexroth’ on it.” But it can be faster and easier to get the help you need if you have a little more information. Often the name plate of your component is easy to find and includes all the information you… Read more »

Robots — Run for Your Life?

Elon Musk says we should quit worrying about robots taking our jobs and worry instead about robots taking our lives. This isn’t a robot overlords scenario. The fear is that robots are not very secure. This allows them to be used by hackers to do things with their arms or wheels. Yes, the limbs are… Read more »

How to Choose a Robot

Robots — not exactly the kind of robots we’re showing in the picture, but industrial automation robots — hold out promise for the future. A well-chosen robot can increase safety and environmental responsibility while keeping costs in check. Robots can work with the level of precision needed to create the tools and products we rely… Read more »

It’s All Servos

Have you heard about the new origami-inspired robots that can lift 1,000 times their own weight? Maybe Toyota’s newest humanoid robot has caught your eye… or maybe you’re into the biohybrids. The look of the new robot may be the jazzy part that shows up in videos, but let’s not forget that it’s really all… Read more »