On the one hand, we hear that reshoring is huge, that we’re bringing jobs back home, and that the global economy is being affected by the loss of U.S. business interests abroad. On the other hand, we hear that companies trying to source manufacturing in the U.S. are discouraged: we’ve lost our capacity for sourcing… Read more »
I told you about our experience with the Navy. We’ve worked with the Air Force, too. It started with a troubleshooting call. The customer had a DKR drive that had blown several internal boards (loss of magic smoke), and there was nothing to do but bring it in for repair. We gave the customer the… Read more »
I will be the first to tell you that I don’t particularly like working with the government. Our company got stiffed by the US Navy a few years back and it has left a bad taste in our collective mouth ever since. For a while, we just refused to service the accounts, but patriotism and… Read more »
“Every work of music contains a set of instructions for creating different but highly related replications of itself,” says David Cope, who happens to be both a programmer and a musician. French researchers have been working for years to teach robots to analyze musical works and use the patterns they discern to create new tunes…. Read more »
China’s manufacturing sector reported 6.1% growth over the weekend, not the expected 6.4% growth. Stocks slumped and investors are worried. In 1990, China was responsible for about 3% of global manufacturing; now it’s doing about a quarter of all the manufacturing in the world, making it the biggest manufacturing player of all. But China’s economy… Read more »
Among the major trends in manufacturing: speed. Not the speed of throughput or the speed of an assembly line in particular, but the speed of the production cycle overall. As consumers and retailers expect more customization, being able to produce large quantities of one object is less desirable in a manufacturer than being able to… Read more »
There’s nothing quite like the screech of machinery seizing up, the chatter of machine operators standing around the machinery describing to one another what they think is wrong, and the shouting of the floor manager echoing down the halls as he heads your way. Somewhere in all that metal there is something that has gone… Read more »
Since 1894, the first Monday of September has been set aside to honor the working people of America. If you have the day off, enjoy it! But don’t hesitate to call if you need Rexroth electric drive, control, or servo support.
A group of researchers led by Bob Mankoff tried to teach robots to distinguish between things that are funny and things that are not. This wasn’t a casual question. Mankoff is a cartoon editor for a publication that has a caption contest. Having to sift through mountains of submissions made him wonder whether the first screening… Read more »
We were supposed to have flying cars by now, but the market isn’t there. We were supposed to have personal hovercrafts, but they don’t look as cool as anticipated. And driverless cars work for Google… except when people run into them. Rexroth has driverless automatic trucks carrying freight right now, though. Terex Port Solutions is… Read more »
