We’re in the middle of Industrial Revolution #4, or in less colorful terms, Industry 4.0. Rexroth has won the Industry 4.0 Award from trade journal Produktion and ROI Management Consulting AG. The reason for the award? The hydraulic valve assembly line in Homburg/Saar, Germany, which was determined to be the best example of Industry 4.0… Read more »
There’s a classic pattern: A guy has a rough day at work and his boss yells at him. Upset, the guy goes and yells at an underling. He goes home and yells at his wife. The wife, stressed by the quarrel, yells at the kid. The kid, angry about being yelled at, kicks the cat…. Read more »
A new initiative from the White House aims to increase Americans’ job skills in tech areas, and to speed up both training and hiring to get more Americans into well-paying jobs more quickly. Today, only 16% of high school grads have both the interest and the math background to enter jobs — such as manufacturing… Read more »
What makes a factory smart? Integration When all the machines can communicate and all provide a consistent user interface, the factory will certainly be smarter. We’re getting ever closer to this possibility. Rexroth’s open source Open Core Interface is one of the initiatives that’s moving us closer. Open Core allows PLC-based engineering and IT automation… Read more »
What will the factory be like in the future? Here are some major trends to watch. Manufacturing and services Manufacturing is all about transforming raw materials into finished goods, right? Increasingly, factories are also providing services. Remanufacturing of parts, consultation on best practices in packaging, and logistics are all providing revenue streams for manufacturers now…. Read more »
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is growing as a field of research in robotics. Topics range from safety for humans when robots and humans work in the same space, to consumer response to robots, to the best kind of interface for shared control over automation. Shared control? Absolutely. As a favorite sentence from the Journal of Human-Robot… Read more »
Are you thinking about having your servo motor, drive, and control repairs done at a Certified Rexroth Repair Shop? Think again. Rexroth doesn’t certify third party repair shops. They don’t sell parts to third party repair shops. They don’t provide specs or training for third party repair shops. Rexroth factory repairs and remans get you… Read more »
The Rexroth Foundry has been around for centuries, using special tools to create a mold from sand before casting components. The tools must be designed and made individually for each new product, and this is the most expensive part of the casting process. So, while casting might be the most cost-effective and the best option… Read more »
Rexroth has a list of five things that will probably be gone in 2025. Topping the list is the idea of replacing machinery on a certain schedule, whether it’s working or not. New sensors and the Internet of Things will let machinery tell engineers when it’s time for update or repair. That means that surprise… Read more »
It may happen someday that you have to turn off your Ecodrive or other legacy Rexroth Indramat parts. Maybe you want to move them to another room, or maybe the room they’re in has to power down for some reason. Whatever the reason, there are safety measures that must be taken when you do this…. Read more »
