Monthly Archives: June 2021

Reshoring in the Pandemic

We’ve been seeing reports that reshoring was on the rise for years, but the progress was actually sluggish. The gap between companies that said they would bring production back to the U.S. soon and the companies that actually did it ended up being disappointing. We seemed to start every year with a bold announcement that… Read more »

Rexroth Retrofit Case Study

When a machine lets you down, you have to consider replacing the machine entirely. When you call around to get information on this, you will probably talk with sales people. Their solution is almost always to buy new — sometimes to buy a whole room full of new stuff in fact. They make that fresh… Read more »

Indramat Authorized Repair Shops

In a forum post we read about a brake fault with an Indramat motor which turned out to be caused by the use of the wrong part in repairs. The poster said that he had then gone to an Indramat authorized repair shop and gotten the problem fixed. Happy ending. Except that there is no… Read more »