Monthly Archives: May 2022

The S1 Button

You see “PL” on your Rexroth drive and you remember that there’s a solution for that: the S1 button. It will get rid of the error message, clear the fault, reset, and give you a fresh start — right? What the S1 button does The S1 button on the drive controller will erase all the… Read more »

Rare Earth Bubble: How Consumer Pressures Lead to Sloppy Engineering

Rare earth elements were the darlings of industrial motion control in the 1990s and early 2000s, providing the power for permanent-magnet synchronous motors. Then a variety of political and economic factors drove the price of rare earth elements up, leading to the boom and bust in rare earth a couple of years ago. One of… Read more »

Bosch Rexroth and The Car Industry

Next time you’re driving in your car, remind yourself that without consumer demand for better and safer cars, companies like Bosch Rexroth wouldn’t exist and manufacturing would be years behind where it is now. Car manufacturing has been a huge proponent for manufacturing innovation because of the heavy demands of the industry on manufacturing technology…. Read more »