When clients worry that their legacy Rexroth electric industrial motion control systems are using an outdated operating system, we reassure them. You’re not planning to play Assassin’s Creed with your servomotor, right? It really doesn’t matter. We keep devices with the appropriate operating system around for communication, and otherwise it’s just not an issue. But… Read more »
Third party repairs are bad news for your Rexroth motion control systems. Check out some cautionary tales: The True Cost of Third Party Repairs Third Party Repair Report Why’d You Choose Third Party Repairs, Again? Third party cables are also bad news. In fact, they will completely void your warranty. If you use a Brand… Read more »
Rexroth has been controlling CNC machines — machines designed to cut materials according to precise programming — for many years. Now Rexroth has stepped it up to laser cutting machines. The key to perfect laser control is in the IndraDrive systems and IndraDyn servo motors. These are the latest generation of Rexroth’s powerful motion control… Read more »
Machine learning is one of the most exciting areas for innovation in industrial automation. Predictive maintenance and process optimization are the two areas with the strongest traction and the highest degree of usefulness, but a fully autonomous factory isn’t impossible. Machine learning means that machines use the data they receive to improve their results and… Read more »
While some worry about robots snatching away their jobs, the robotics industry is celebrating growth in the U.S. So where are the robot makers? At least half are in the Midwest, where the Steel Belt became the Rust Belt. Top robot cities Detroit is the leader in robot-related industry, with 66 companies employing 3,012 human… Read more »
A lack of qualified human workers continues to be an issue for manufacturing. Maybe we’re overlooking an opportunity. Industrial robots could learn to praise human operators. Can robots praise humans? Sure. Robots can be programmed to say anything. Sophia, a humanoid robot who was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship, made headlines with her admiration of Kazakh… Read more »
This is just an ad. We enjoyed it, so you might like to watch it during your coffee break, too. But we’re not going to pretend that there’s a lot of information here. The thing that struck us was the promise to keep up with “the technological storm we’re in.” That’s a metaphorical storm, created… Read more »
Rexroth’s electric industrial motion control systems of the 20th century were revolutionary in their day for their modular design and “personality modules.” These early innovations allow you even now to pull a damaged module off the machine and quickly replace it with another. Downtime is minimized and flexibility is maximized. Rexroth is taking the concept… Read more »
