Has your Rexroth/ Indramat legacy servo drive or servo motor been updated or upgraded since it was installed? Although these components are official maintenance free, there might be upgrades or updates to the programming or to the parts inside that would be beneficial. Of course, Indramat machinery doesn’t need to be updated to keep working correctly…. Read more »
Pittsburgh. It’s the Steel City, the City of Bridges, the ‘Burgh, the City of Champions — and now it’s also the Robot City. Pittsburgh counts itself in the Top 3 American Robotics cities, along with Boston and the Bay Area, according to Joel Reed, executive director at the Pittsburgh Robotics Network. “As we move more autonomy… Read more »
In general, we’re positive about automation. Automation takes on jobs that are dull, dangerous, and dirty so that human beings can do more valuable work, we figure. Innovation can mean the end of some jobs, but it brings on new jobs, too. The future’s so bright, we gotta wear shades. However, there are some other… Read more »
Many people worry that automation will take over too many human jobs and leave human beings unemployed. During the pandemic, when automation jumped ahead much more than expected, this fear became even more common. But a new group of observers is worrying less that machines will become more like humans and more able to do… Read more »
A fatal error is what it sounds like. In the drive system, the drive simply can’t work. The error cannot be cleared. There is such a severe problem with the hardware or firmware that the drive has to shut down. The 24 volt power supply must be completely shut down. The drive has to be… Read more »
In 1966, a complicated story with the CIA, implausible science, and Raquel Welch miniaturized a submarine manned by a group of scientists and sent them into the bloodstream of another scientist. Their goal was to remove a blood clot from his brain before the miniaturization spell wore off and they suddenly found themselves full… Read more »
The Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, is known for its crushing pressure: 1,000 times the pressure we experience on land. That’s enough to completely dissolve bones. The Mariana Trench is seven miles deep, 180 million years old, and absolutely dark. Only a handful of human beings have ever been there, and it’s… Read more »
COVID-19 has done some big things for technology. Time warp According to McKinsey, automaton has moved ahead by three or four years in the past 365 days. Other tech changes have moved even faster. For example, before the pandemic companies thought a shift to remote work would take a year. In fact, it took most… Read more »
We know that automation can rescue human workers from dangerous, dirty, and dull work, lifting human beings into jobs that are safer and more interesting. We tend to think that this will make up for job losses through caused by automation. But a new article at VentureBeat takes the benefits of automation further. Automation, author… Read more »
We get a call at least once a week asking about “UL error” and why it isn’t in the manual. There are only 2 problems with those questions: 1) It isn’t an error, and 2) It’s in the manual (under Operational Status). What does UL mean? UL is about the same as Microsoft’s last warning… Read more »
