Monthly Archives: April 2023

Rexroth’s Engineering Power Woman

Rexroth’s Dr. Christina Franke has received the Engineer Powerwoman award at WomenPower 2023. This event is part of the annual Hannover Messe trade show. Dr. Christina Franke is a highly respected and accomplished engineer who serves as the head of development in the Assembly Technology business unit of Bosch Rexroth. With over 20 years of… Read more »

The Smart Flex Effector

  Bosch Rexroth has won the coveted Hermès Award at Hannover Messe 2023 for its Smart Flex Effector. The Hermès Award The Hermès Award is an international technology prize awarded annually at the Hannover Messe, the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technology. The award is named after the Greek god Hermes, who was known… Read more »

What’s Rexroth Factory Repair?

Rexroth stands for awesome electric industrial motion control.  That doesn’t mean that your Rexroth components will never need maintenance or repair. After a few decades, you may need repair or replacement. At that point, you have a very important decision to make: who you gonna call? You can call a third party repair shop and… Read more »

Bosch Rexroth Hits €1 Billion

Bosch Rexroth hit a milestone last year by selling €1 billion in green technology. Coincidentally, they also announced that they’re saving their customer €1 billion by providing green technology for industrial automation. How does sustainability translate to savings? They’re showing off new ways to “conserve resources, reduce energy consumption, protect the environment, and mitigate global warming”… Read more »

Robot Lawyers

Lawyers have been on the threatened list for robot job takeovers for some time. While WillRobotsTakeMyJob.com considers courtroom trial lawyers low risk, paralegals and legal researchers are doomed. Wired sees a different possibility. They point to debt-related lawsuits. Nearly one tenth of legal cases now have to do with debts or evictions, and the people… Read more »

Error Code F2187

F2187

Rexroth error code F2187 is a common error that occurs when there is a loss of encoder 1 reference in a motor. This error message indicates that the motor encoder needs to be referenced using the internal drive command Set Absolute Reference. This process can be done either through the commissioning software or an external… Read more »

Laser Weeding

Laser Weeding is a relatively new entry in agricultural automation. Carbon Robotics, the makers, expect to get their devices into 17 states this year, plus Canada. Their weeders use AI to guide lasers to kill weeds “with thermal energy” as the website puts it. Burning up the weeds is more environmentally friendly than using chemicals… Read more »

ChatGPT in the Factory

SmartIndustry recently published an interview with Rootstrap’s Mikaela Pisani, who described ways that ChatGPT could revolutionize manufacturing. Pisani suggested that ChtGPT could help out on the factory floor by “creating optimizations plans,  predictive-maintenance schedules, mitigating risks, improving communications (making them faster and more efficient), as well provide quality control-detecting anomalies in the available information.” What… Read more »

A Different Approach to Robot Mobility

Disney

One of the biggest challenges for robots is mobility. Industrial robots can do a lot of things fast, efficiently, and economically, but when it comes to moving around a warehouse or factory — let alone more challenging environments — robots are likely to fall down, be unable to open the doors, and fail to handle… Read more »

Happy Factories

An Epicor survey took a deep dive into what makes a happy manufacturing workplace. More than half of respondents said morale was high in the factories where they worked. What made them happy? Flexible work schedules, including more paid time off. Next most common response: better pay. Apart from time and money, respondents also cared… Read more »