Voltage can fluctuate in industrial settings and if you don’t ensure you’re getting what your equipment needs, it can take a toll on your productivity. Ensuring that your Indramat and Rexroth machinery is receiving the right amount of power and doing routine checks on the input voltage is important for maintaining your equipment. This is… Read more »
The Indramat DKR drive is specifically designed for high power, high stiffness applications such as printing, packaging, and textile operations. Essentially, the DKR drives were an outgrowth and an upgrade of the classic Indramat RAC drive. Bosch-Rexroth updated this family of drives and controllers, using HMV-R as the new name. Now these are in the… Read more »
Last time we looked at some of the great conveyor belt moments in film (including TV, since we all watch it on computers now anyway so who cares). Today, we’ll move on to the factory floor. Herewith, some of the greatest factories in filmdom: Matropolis, one the earliest movies, achieves some impressive choreography among the… Read more »
Automation is great in real life, but it’s even better in movies, where no one has to worry about plausibility and there are props managers to clean up the mess. These favorite movie automation scenes focus on conveyor belts. Perhaps the most memorable of all, the great I Love Lucy conveyor belt scene. This of… Read more »
When your factory is shut down because you need an Indramat repair, how long can you really wait for an Indramat repair shop to get a part to you? Before you decide to go with a third party repair shop, consider what turn around time you need. Some repair shops take weeks to get your… Read more »
Selecting an Indramat repair company or a company that repairs Rexroth equipment can be challenging. Here’s a quick guide to the things you need to look for in your Indramat and Rexroth repair company. Reliable You’ve got orders coming in and need to get your shipments out. You don’t have time to mess with someone… Read more »
Liquid or water-cooled Indramat and Rexroth drives and servomotors are great for huge amounts of torque in small spaces, but all that condensation can wreak havoc on your Indramat and Rexroth equipment if you don’t take the proper steps to ensure against it. Your equipment is probably contained inside of a big climate-controlled case, but… Read more »
Indramat Ecodrive03 models are perfect for using machine tools, printing, paper processing, packaging, and handling applications. But did you know there are eight different units of Ecodrive03 DKC drives, with three firmware variants, different interface options, and three different versions? That gives you a wide range of capabilities with one family of drives but each… Read more »
Yes, this is a programmer surfing on, or at least with the aid of, a robot. Consider the programmer’s salary. Now think of the cost to build and run the robot. You should now be wondering whether there is any justification of any kind for this use of human and machine resources. There is a… Read more »
You wouldn’t buy parts for your car from a guy on the street corner selling random parts, so why should you try that for your servo replacement parts? Although there’s always the possibility it’ll turn out well, it very rarely does. Servo motors and servo drives bought from places like online auction sites are like buying… Read more »
