October, according to The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s (ELFA) Monthly Leasing and Finance Index, showed an overall increase in business activity of 6%. So what happened to the recession? There may still be a recession. but it isn’t the doom and gloom news many are making it out to be. An intentional cooling off… Read more »
Rexroth does not sell parts to third party repairers, meaning that unless you’re getting your part factory repaired, you’ll be getting Indramat parts of dubious origin. We’ll let you imagine how third party repair shops get their parts for repairs. That’s why we provide factory repair services—we believe the best people to repair and replace… Read more »
Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, a traditional shopping day marked by deep discounts and extreme behavior on the part of consumers. The myth is that this special day when the holiday shopping season begins is the day that retailers go into the black after having operated at a loss (that is, in the… Read more »
We wish you a happy Thanksgiving! If you have an emergency service need with your Rexroth electric industrial motion control, you can call us throughout the holiday weekend. We’re standing by ready to help.
We’ve been hearing a lot about humanoid robots, social robots, robots that can be our “buddies” and companions, robots that can learn new skills on their own. A South Korean company is taking another route. They’ve discovered that people feel more comfortable with brainless robots that do menial tasks and look like trash cans. Naver… Read more »
We specialize in legacy Indramat motion control components. Chances are, if you use Indramat motion control, you’ve thought about testing them at some point. It might have been when you stumbled into a cabinet and opened it to find a servo older than yourself. Is this thing still performing as it should? you might… Read more »
Self check out is ubiquitous in grocery stores and Big Box shops now. Yet a recent survey shows that two thirds of shoppers have had a failure with self checkout. Two thirds. Imagine a vending machine that failed for two thirds of users. Imaging an industrial automation solution that failed 67% of the time. Imagine… Read more »
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), the nonprofit research arm of American Trucking Associations (ATA), has reported that certain truck driver behaviors turn out to be good predictors of future truck crashes. For example, having had one truck crash more than doubled the chances of a driver’s having another — that’s a 113% increase in… Read more »
The Delivering the Future event at the Amazon Robotics Innovation Hub just took place, and Amazon introduced some new robots. The Sparrow The Sparrow is designed to perform repetitive tasks in a warehouse environment. Using AI and computer vision, it can pick up a wide range of objects, including sheets, bottles of vitamins, and flat… Read more »
Offshoring, onshoring, restoring, nearshoring — now friend-shoring? US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has proposed friend-shoring as a way to support other nations with shared values. The idea is that U.S. manufacturers will build facilities in nations that have shared values with the United States, and those nations will be less likely to cause supply chain… Read more »
