Monthly Archives: July 2021

Shrinkflatiion

Economists are worrying about inflation as the economy opens up after the pandemic. In manufacturing, shrinkflation may be the thing we meet most often. What is shrinkflation? Nutella has an alternative to raising prices on their products. Instead, they’re making their packages hold a bit less. The 400 gram jar will now hold 350. The… Read more »

Rexroth Travel Range Errors

A lot of servo drive and control tasks boil down to this: go from place X to place Y and stop. This is true whether you are using 13 servos to create highly realistic movement in a movie spider or getting an arm to pick and place correctly on an assembly line. Errors in this… Read more »

Indradrive Error Messages

The Indradrive is a generational jump for Rexroth Electric Drives and Controls, and there are distinct differences between Indradrive and Indramat. One of the differences is the much greater number of error messages available to Indradrive, and the corresponding higher granularity of initial troubleshooting available. While the older series drives had a 4 digit (or… Read more »