If you found a floppy disc in your office that had vital information on it, or so you thought, would you be able to access it? Probably not. Very few people have computers that can access floppy disc information anymore and even CD-ROMS are being phased out with flash drives and cloud downloads of programs…. Read more »
Automation is a good thing, as far as we’re concerned. It allows us to be more productive, more profitable, and at the same time to be more respectful of both our environment and each other. We can give machinery highly repetitive tasks, dangerous jobs, and chores that need to be done in environments which are… Read more »
OT and IT are often at odds and that probably comes from a lot of bad history together. IT is often all about the latest and greatest, wanting to keep things updated and the most recent firmware on machines. OT, however, knows that this isn’t always possible with legacy equipment. As legacy equipment is brought… Read more »
Have you ever had one of those special cars? The door doesn’t open when it’s cold, and when it’s hot the trunk won’t stay up when you open it. You have to turn the key just the right way to make it start, and the window needs to be pulled up manually from the top… Read more »
Brushed motors came first — by a long chalk. Ernst Werner von Siemens invented the brushed DC motor in 1856. The brushed DC motor was the only game in town for over a century, till the brushless motor was developed in the 1970s. Indramat’s brushless AC Servo was released in 1979, and quickly became the… Read more »
Do you want to speed things up in your plant? Are you sure? Faster is usually possible, but will the equipment take the load? What will the next bottleneck be? We had a client who spent a ton of money to speed up the packing section of his plant to 2x the capacity. He could… Read more »
Automation for lights, according to Rexroth-Bosch’s research, can save up to 60% in energy consumption. Sounds green? It is. We’re all aware that automation increases throughput and decreases staffing costs, thereby creating greater productivity with lower costs. But did you realize that automation is also good for the environment? The main reason that automation is… Read more »
Indramat DKS Servo Drives are integrated drives, combining power and control in one unit. The official name is “Intelligent Digital Servo Drive.” The drive is connected to the servo motor with a power cable and a feedback cable. Software modules and auxiliary plug-in cards ensure that, if your Indramat DKS drive has to be replaced,… Read more »
You know what your car engine is supposed to sound like. That guttural roar of pistons moving and belts humming is part of the whole driving experience. When you hear something else — maybe a woop! woop! or a rhythmic sussing sound — you know something’s going on. Rexroth servo noises are much like engine… Read more »
Indramat means excellent drive and control technologies, right? However, it also means “Gesellschaft zur INDustrialisierung-RAtionalisierung und AutoMATisierung” or, in English, “Association for Industrialization, Rationalization, and Automation.” Indramat was born in 1958, when nobody had a computer at home, going to space was the biggest technology goal, and robots were found in science fiction, not in… Read more »
