After having been in this business for longer than I care to think about, I find that upgrading is probably the most misunderstood and poorly approached action that people take with their machinery. People who will spend months analyzing the purchase of new equipment will launch into the upgrade of an existing piece of equipment… Read more »
People are pretty stupid sometimes. No matter how many times you warn them, tell them the disastrous repercussions, or post signs like this one to catch attention, they still do things that end up harming themselves or others. According to the National Safety Council, some 89% of workers ignore safety rules. We’ve made the point… Read more »
We recently saw an offer online for replacement parts for Indramat and Rexroth servo motors and servo drives. The online retailer claims to have a big stock of replacement servomotors and servo drives that you can buy online and have delivered to your location. Sounds convenient, right? It might not be that good a deal…. Read more »
Error codes or fault codes in an Indramat or Rexroth drive start with different sets of letters. For instance, there’s F218, F219, and F220. But there’s also E250, E251, and E252. What’s the difference between the E and F groups? Think of the error codes that start with the letter F as standing for failure…. Read more »
We love machines. You probably do, too. Many people love their cars, their home appliances, or their phones. But some researchers have taken the trouble to measure the results of human-machine relationships and the feelings involved in them. Experimental subjects (42 of them) were asked to team up with a robot to play a game…. Read more »
Rexroth Indramat motion control equipment is, in our humble opinion, the best in the world. Even so, you might need a manual. Error codes are great — but only if you know what they mean. When things go south, your Indramat manual can help you solve problems and interpret the error codes into human… Read more »
In school we learned how to write papers according to a certain formula. “There are three kinds of dogs,” we’d scribble, “First, there are big dogs. Then there are medium dogs. Finally, there are little dogs.” We’d run through a few examples of each, pointing out the bigness of Great Danes and St. Bernards, the… Read more »
Bosch Rexroth, the current owners of the company that used to be Indramat, began with a hammer foundry in 1795 in Elsavatal, Germany. The history of Rexroth Indramat in America didn’t begin until much later — almost two centuries later in 1967, when Rexroth Corporation set up as the importer of the German Rexroth products…. Read more »
We work with a lot of clients in the printing industry, so we were fascinated when we found out about the exciting history of the printing press. Seriously. Movable type It all started with Johannes Gutenberg in 1440, of course. Up till that time, printing a page meant engraving the whole page in mirror image… Read more »
Something’s gone wrong with your Indramat or Rexroth equipment and you’re not sure what to do. Should you open the cabinet? It’s not just like opening up a file cabinet or supply cupboard. You can cause damage just by opening the cabinet if you don’t know what you’re doing. Cabinets can usually be opened… Read more »
