Have you ever had one of those special cars? The door doesn’t open when it’s cold, and when it’s hot the trunk won’t stay up when you open it. You have to turn the key just the right way to make it start, and the window needs to be pulled up manually from the top… Read more »
Brushed motors came first — by a long chalk. Ernst Werner von Siemens invented the brushed DC motor in 1856. The brushed DC motor was the only game in town for over a century, till the brushless motor was developed in the 1970s. Indramat’s brushless AC Servo was released in 1979, and quickly became the… Read more »
The Winter Olympics are over. They had their share of heartbreaks and triumphs, surprises and excitement, and winter sports fans are still savoring their favorite moments. It’s also now time to determine whether South Korea’s side focus on robots paid off. 85 robots were among the workers at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South… Read more »
The traditional way to set up a factory line is to buy or build a machine that does a specific task, find a safe place for it, and install a conveyor from that machine to the next one. An uncoiler feeds aluminum through a lubricator, for example, and then on to a cupping press. The… Read more »
We admit it: most of our clients do things like build cars, print packages, or whip paper cups together at dizzying speeds. As specialists in Rexroth electric drive and motion control, we do serious work. But Rexroth is bringing a spirit of fun to the Industry 4.0 Summit. Right there in Manchester, UK, Rexroth is… Read more »
Do you want to speed things up in your plant? Are you sure? Faster is usually possible, but will the equipment take the load? What will the next bottleneck be? We had a client who spent a ton of money to speed up the packing section of his plant to 2x the capacity. He could… Read more »
Enter the Rexroth factory in China and you might see banners announcing Saturday study sessions for the Communist Party. A law in China says that any business employing three or more members of the Communist Party must set up a party cell. Like Young Democrats or Young Republicans on campuses in the U.S., these groups… Read more »
IndraDrive C Error Codes fall into eight classes: F2xxx: non-fatal error F3xxx: non-fatal safety technology error F4xxx: interface error F6xxx: travel range error F7xxx: safety technology error F8xxx: fatal error F9xxx: fatal system error E-xxxx: fatal system error “processor exception” You can tell which kind of error you’re looking at by the first two characters… Read more »
Robots take on jobs that humans aren’t suited to, working in environments where human beings can’t thrive. Hot heavy, and hazardous, in other words. 90% of the time that’s something like a washdown environment in a factory, but there’s a context that’s coming up more often in discussions about robots: the battlefield. Robots at war… Read more »
Rexroth does a good job of showing automation at its best in video form. Rexroth is, as the video points out, the market leader for industrial automation and a leader for Industry 4.0. When you need service or support for your electric Rexroth motion control systems, call 479-422-0390 for immediate help. You’ll talk with an… Read more »
