The rising costs of materials and energy are significant concerns in manufacturing today. At the same time, the pressure to use greener technologies, from government regulations, retailers, and end-users alike, is affecting manufacturing more deeply than ever before. Kill two birds with one stone by tapping into the circular economy. The circular economy is, at… Read more »
One of the main benefits of automation is the opportunity to keep human workers out of dangerous situations. A Rexroth servo motor can work in a wash-down environment with caustic chemicals — or in a sterile environment. New regulations on medical device packaging went into effect this fall. Sterility of the medical device within the… Read more »
We’re specialists in legacy Rexroth electric motion control systems. We have to admit that some modules are more special than others. One of the most special is the Indramat HDD drive, a servo drive that handles two motors from a single space-saving chassis. Otherwise, it’s essentially the same as the more common HDS drive. Space… Read more »
A new research report has identified five challenges for factories heading out of this decade: Market volatility Material costs Price reduction pressures Labor costs Transportation/logistics costs Examining the industry challenges Market volatility is part of the post-election landscape, but industrial markets are affected by global factors, as well. Manufacturing has been volatile for a while… Read more »
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a reality. It is possible now, as Rexroth has shown in Industry 4.0 factories, to create a smart factory where machines, products, and people communicate directly, gather information, and make decisions based on collected and analyzed data. Now it’s time for standards. The focus in work on IIoT… Read more »
Madeline Gannon is known as “the robot whisperer.” While many of us are getting excited about the possibility of communicating with industrial robots by way of a kiosk or tablet, Gannon has been communicating with them using gestures. Gannon, who has no engineering backgroud, was frustrated by the experience of programming the industrial robots… Read more »
Rexroth is part of a German Industry 4.0 initiative called SmartFactoryKL. Banding together with more than 40 partner companies like IBM and Cisco, Rexroth is working in research and consulting to create the manufacturer-independent smart factory of the future. Here are the elements identified by SmartFactoryKL as essentials for Industry 4.0: Smart objects: Instead of… Read more »
One of president-elect Trump’s most popular campaign promises was his promise to bring back manufacturing jobs to the U.S. Can it be done? We’ve seen reshoring going on, and U.S. manufacturing is reaching new heights of productivity, but bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. doesn’t always mean bringing back manufacturing jobs. How is U.S. manufacturing… Read more »
Chad DeJong wrote in Industry Week, “We need to apply our knowledge and perceptions of social media to the shop floor, in which trends and environmental conditions can be continuously monitored and dynamically presented to any user in any location with a mobile device. Data collected from factory equipment can help determine the health of… Read more »
