You use them to keep in touch with friends and family, to shop, to take pictures and listen to music, to take notes and store documents, to read books and to make phone calls. Your smartphone or tablet has become such a central part of your life that it’s probably hard to imagine what your… Read more »
We hope you’re visiting your family, enjoying the fireworks, or maybe on the lake with a fishing pole and a great sandwich. However, if you have a Rexroth Indramat emergency, it’s good to know that you can call on us.
Even as American manufacturing jobs increase for the 12th consecutive month, economists are worrying about youth unemployment. 5.8 million Americans between the ages of 16 and 25 are neither at work nor in school. That’s about 16% — more than twice the national unemployment rate. A recent study calculated that this unemployment costs the United… Read more »
Increasingly, factories rely on remote monitoring of machinery performance to make sure that everything is working well. Increasing automation makes sense; the more processes can be automated, the more cost-effective they’ll be. In many plants, the increase in automation has led to reduced manpower, and there just aren’t enough man hours to cover direct monitoring… Read more »
Official word has come in from Arturo Baroncelli, President of the IFR: 2013 saw a record breaking number of robots go into service. 2014 is expected to break that record. There are several good reasons for this. For one thing, consumer product lifecycles are shorter and there’s more customization and personalization. That means that automation requires… Read more »
Georg Ludwig Rexroth built a water-powered hammer mill in Elsavatal in the Spessart valley in 1795. There is a pond there which is still called the “Höllhammer” pond after the ironworks. Archaeologists from the area say that there was a hammerworks there already when Rexroth arrived — probably before 1702. There was water to power… Read more »
We’ve written before about the challenges in packaging, but the challenges aren’t all on the production side. Where do consumer package designs come from? First, from marketing. Manufacturers put extensive thought, research, and effort into determining what shapes, colors, and materials will do the job of getting packages off the shelf and into the shopper’s… Read more »
Machine operators may need to reach out, to lift things, or to move things from one space to another. Do you think it matters how tall they are? If you’re not sure, try setting a heavy object on a shelf or counter that’s at a comfortable working height for you. Life the object up to… Read more »
We specialize in legacy Indramat components, but we keep up with the new Bosch Rexroth IndraDrive innovations as well. This particular machine, the first of its kind back in 2010, is a testament to the beauty of servos: precision and power. We can’t see where the cups end up after they’re shot out of the… Read more »
We had just written about the skills gap when a new book on the subject turned up in the mailbox. Obviously, this subject is on people’s minds. In this case, the Summit Media Group brought in experts to come up with a solution for the problem. Keith S. Campbell is the editor for the Manufacturing… Read more »
