Visitors to our website are most likely to be visiting our Support and Manual Request pages. But the top stories of 2018 include a lot of interesting information. The most popular articles for 2018: Indramat Error Codes: What Do E and F Mean? You may have noticed that legacy Rexroth error codes are divided into… Read more »
The smart factory of the future collects data and provides that data for use by multiple systems. If sensors use one language and the various systems all use their own proprietary languages, you have a problem. With Open Core Interface, the different systems and elements can talk to one another. The library of… Read more »
Levitation is a magic trick — but it’s also a real thing, when it involves magnets pushing each other apart. Rexroth has brought this impressive force to bear in a new approach to conveyor belts. Workpieces don’t have to rest on the conveyor belt surface. Instead they can waft silently across space from one work… Read more »
Amazon is hiring 20,000 fewer seasonal workers this year than they did last year. How did they accomplish that? “Automation has allowed us to offer increasing selection with faster delivery at lower cost. This is a virtuous cycle allowing our business to continue to grow and create more jobs,” a spokesman told Fast Company. Walmart… Read more »
According to The Economist, the number of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. fell at a fairly steady .4% each year from 1948 to 2008. Between 2010 and 2018, it has only fallen .3%. Some of those years the number of manufacturing jobs actually increased. In fact, a government report in summer of 2018 told us… Read more »
If you’re using air conditioned cabinets for your drive and motion components, you probably value them highly in the summer. It’s over 100 degrees on the factory floor and you know your drives and motors can’t handle that. Without cooling, they’re likely to start to smell and smoke and even damage your system. They need… Read more »
A study by Frost and Sullivan found that both servo motors and stepper motors will be in increasingly high demand in the near future, with the global rise of industrial automation and increasing demand in the areas of packaging and automobiles. Servo motors and stepper motors are often thought of and spoken of together in… Read more »
Rexroth was marketing “intelligent” drives back in the 20th century. Now, talk about smart factories centers on AI, or Artificial Intelligence. AI allows a factory to run the way a factory would run under the expert guidance of a human being who knew everything that was going on… and took no breaks or vacations or… Read more »
More than 20% of American vacuums are now robots. Juniper Research claims that 10% of U.S. households will have a robot by 2020. Most of those robots will be vacuums. But robot floor cleaners are not just for home use. Walmart is pushing out a fleet of 360 floor-scrubbing robots by January 2019. The floor… Read more »
