If you’re thinking of buying a rebuilt Rexroth servo motor, you’re probably wondering how it should look. Some of our competitors show a whole shelf full of Rexroth servos, supposedly rebuilt and ready for installation. They might have the smooth black exterior we associate with Rexroth servos. They might be neatly arranged. But they don’t… Read more »
You know what your car engine is supposed to sound like. That guttural roar of pistons moving and belts humming is part of the whole driving experience. When you hear something else — maybe a woop! woop! or a rhythmic sussing sound — you know something’s going on. Rexroth servo noises are much like engine… Read more »
Servo motors work by moving things to a precisely defined position and stopping. Usually they do this over and over. Stopping is one of their important tasks. But just stopping and staying stopped is not what you want from a servo motor. What can cause a servo motor to stop? Maybe it’s broken. A broken… Read more »
People worry a lot about losing jobs to industrial automation, and they are not being completely unrealistic. However, a new report from the United Nations points out the gaps between fears and reality. First, about half of all robots in service are in Germany, the U.S., and Japan. China and the Republic of Korea have… Read more »
Rexroth’s Ecodrive drive controller was a landmark product when it first came out. It was an unusually intelligent controller, part of a beautifully designed industrial motion control system, at a great price. In fact, the “eco” in Ecodrive stands for “economy,” not “ecology” as you might have thought. The object of the Ecodrive initiative was… Read more »
Industrial motion control systems start with a servo motor, a motor which can be directed to take very specific actions which in turn make the machines they control perform very specific actions. Servo motors are in communication with amplifiers, or drives, which send a specific amount of power to the motor to cause the machine… Read more »
This year’s hurricane season has been one of the worst in history. Hurricane Harvey drenched the gulf coast, causing billions of dollars worth of damage in Texas. Hurricane Irma hit Florida, destroying property and causing widespread evacuations. Then Hurricane Maria moved in, creating catastrophic damage in Puerto Rico, where Hurricane Irma had already knocked… Read more »
China has an extremely long history of using terra cotta in art and in building. So it makes sense that the University of Hong Kong architecture program should try an experiment in using terra cotta in combination with new trends in manufacturing. A robotic arm was in charge of printing out bricks for the structure…. Read more »
We’ve seen plenty of predictions of the kinds of jobs robots will probably take over — or, in some cases, the tasks they’ll relieve humans of doing. But a new report gives us the list of jobs being taken over by robots right now. There are some surprises on the list. We’ve seen models, tax… Read more »
There’s been a call for more plug-and-play robotics, machines packaged with pre-programmed IoT connections and skills. The idea is that this will make it easier for SMEs to take the plunge into industrial automation. Right now, the cost of bringing in new machinery, programming it, and maintaining it can be a major hurdle for smaller… Read more »
