In 1795, Georg Ludwig Rexroth built a water-driven forge in Germany and began producing iron hammers. The French Revolution had developed into wars between France and her neighbors, Beethoven was becoming popular, Napoleon was on the rise, and Rexroth dealt with plenty of upheaval. The Rexroth factory moved into an iron foundry in Lohr am… Read more »
It’s a 2020 Thanksgiving! The Centers for Disease Control say we should stay home this year and celebrate with our own households. For some of us that can mean celebrating alone or with a whole bunch of children. Do you want to spend the typical five to ten hours or prep time to make turkey… Read more »
Rexroth heatsink error codes include several different codes associated with different modules. E250 Drive Overtemperature Prewarning When the temperature of the drive’s heatsink reaches the maximum temperature, the drive will hold steady for 30 seconds, allowing the completion of the process. Then the drive controller will perform the best possible deceleration. The most common cause… Read more »
We hear from our clients that Rexroth industrial electric motion control systems have their own special challenge when it comes to service. They hardly ever need service. If you suddenly have a support need for your Rexroth drive and control components, chances are good that nobody in your plant knows what to do. Your Rexroth… Read more »
Robots may not be great at folding laundry or sorting fruit, but they’re aces at dealing with data. So when the FBI realized that the 2,000,000,000 documents they were storing in Virginia were more than human workers could handle, they went right to an automated solution. They were consolidating physical records stored at 256… Read more »
Biomimicry is common in robot design. Researchers try to build robots that can jump like fleas, swim like octopi, or poop like wombats. But the robots inspired by awesome mechanisms found in nature don’t usually look like fleas, octopi, or wombats. The object is not to create a mechanical kangaroo, but to build a machine… Read more »
5G: the fifth generation of wireless networks 5G is expected to be faster, more reliable, and higher capacity than previous wireless networks. It’s not a completely new technology, but it is much more powerful and more integrated. At the moment, in the United States at least, 5G has quite a bit of overlap with 4G,… Read more »
“Man Bites Dog” is a classic example of news that wouldn’t be news if it were the other way ’round, but “Humans Take Jobs from Robots” should count, too. So many of us are worried that robots might take our human jobs that we have to pay attention if things go in the opposite direction…. Read more »
When they’re lying around lethargically in a messy house, a robot not unlike a Roomba can clean up their mess and nudge them to get some exercise…Chickens, that is. Not those of us working remotely in the pandemic. Chickens need exercise, and they stay healthier in clean houses. Colin Usher of Georgia Tech has a… Read more »
Manufacturers may be allowing office workers to do their jobs remotely, but the workers on the line have to be physically present to do their work — right? An article in Industry Week says otherwise. Pointing to robot-assisted surgery, they suggest that the technology needed to operate robots remotely is now available. Remote factory work,… Read more »
