A new survey of workers found that happier workers are less worried about having their jobs taken by robot overlords…or any variation on that theme. First, happy workers are in the majority. About one quarter of the people surveyed are thinking about leaving their jobs. Who’s got one foot out the door? It’s “those who… Read more »
Bosch Rexroth has announced that Gregory Gumbs will step down from his current position as president and CEO of the North America region on July 1. No replacement has yet been chosen. Reinhard Schaefer, a current Executive Board Member, will take the helm as interim and lead the search for a new CEO. “I have… Read more »
It is said that the sole purpose of a propeller on an aircraft is to cool the pilot. If you don’t believe that, let it stop turning and watch the pilot start sweating. The same could be said for the fans and A/C units on your cabinets and Rexroth Indramat drives and motors. You might… Read more »
A submersible craft, the Titan, with five crew members aboard, traveled under the ocean to explore the wreak of the Titanic, the famed ocean liner that hit an iceberg and sank. The Titan became lost after it went down 12,500 feet under the ocean, and an international rescue operation was mounted. One of the efforts… Read more »
Manufacturing accounts for one quarter of all workplace injuries in the United States. That’s about 2.9 million injuries a year. Fortunately, automation can increase safety while lowering costs. Give the robots the dangerous jobs One of the reasons for industrial automation is to take human beings out of dangerous work environments. There’s no reason to… Read more »
On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Galveston, Texas. In fact, slavery in Texas had been officially ended two years earlier by President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in the Confederate States. Those, like Texas, which were still under Confederate control, did not see… Read more »
Robot umpires have been part of baseball for several years now, but the big leagues don’t plan to use them in 2024. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that Major League Baseball would not be using the robot-umps that have become commonplace in Triple-A games. The Automatic Balls and Strikes system, or ABS, has been in… Read more »
You’ve got a problem with your Rexroth Indramat CLC-D and it’s blinking at you with some incomprehensible letters and numbers. It’s almost insulting, like a tourist shouting loudly in English as though more volume would cause the person he’s talking with to understand English better. And you aren’t understanding Rexroth machine-speak any better just… Read more »
Some of the health hazards associated with electric drives are obvious: we all know that electricity can shock us and hot surfaces can burn us. But there are other, hidden dangers for people with certain kinds of implants. Potential Risks People with heart pacemakers, metal implants, and hearing aids may be in danger when they… Read more »
Handling heat may not be one of the first things you think of when you’re mentally enumerating the strengths of robots. After all, overheating is one of the most common causes of Rexroth error messages. Researchers at Arizona State University have, however, developed a robot that could help humans cope with climate change. The threat… Read more »
