Alex Chausovsky, of IHS Industrial Automation was recently reported as identifying two ways to look at industrial motion control. Americans, he says, look at the efficiency of a motor and the efficiency of the motor control. Europeans look at the efficiency of the two together. At first, it seems as though there might not be… Read more »
There’s something hypnotic about this, isn’t there? It’s hard to stop watching, and at the same time there’s something about the mix of music and movement that just makes you want to dance. Having your servos fail doesn’t make you want to dance. It might make you want to pull out your hair. If those… Read more »
Manufacturing in the United States has been on the upswing for a while now, and has rebounded from the difficult winter, now that spring has come. The winter was difficult for a lot of manufacturers, though the Federal Reserve Board reports steady growth for manufacturers across the nation. Consumer confidence continued to be shaky in… Read more »
Indramat made three basic types of control: CLM CLC PPC Each of these controls comes in a variety of flavors. When you need a replacement or repair, you’ll need to know the details of your control. How can you tell which one you’ve got? Here are some questions that will help you identify the control… Read more »
One of the industries in which Indramat motion control is most commonly used is in preparing packaging. There may be some question about the future of print books, magazines, and newspapers, but it’s clear that packaging for products is around for the long haul. In fact, some industry insiders will tell you that all the… Read more »
Making things is one of the things people do best. That doesn’t mean there are no challenges involved. There can even be dangers. For centuries, “mad as a hatter” has been used to refer to people who were mentally disturbed. The usage came from the fact that hatters — people working in hat factories —… Read more »
The bionic kangaroo that copies kangaroos to figure out how to use less energy to move machinery is only one of the many example of biomimicry showing up in modern design. Biomimicry refers to the practice of looking at how nature solves problems and using the insights thus gained to improve design. An article in… Read more »
Upgrading machinery is no small matter, even though salespeople can make it sound that way. A perfect example is the case of Cummins, Inc., an outfit that works with deisel engines. They relied on Indramat RAC drives, legacy drives from Indramat, which is now part of Bosch Rexroth, to run four key machines. They had… Read more »
Bosch Rexroth is introducing new integrated industrial motion control technology with the less than cool slogan, “One cable instead of three!” We might have gone with, “One cable to rule them all!” or “All for one and one for all!” Lots of companies have offered one cable, not three, for lots of things in the… Read more »
In his new book, Big Data @Work, Thomas Davenport envisions ways in which big data could change the face of manufacturing — just as it has already changed marketing and healthcare. “Big data,” he explains, “refers to data that is too big to fit on a single server, too unstructured to fit into a row-and-column… Read more »
