Reshoring is happening, but not as quickly as we might like. One of the major reasons is the weakness of the supply chain in the U.S. It’s basic economics. One quarter of U.S. factories headed overseas during the Great Offshoring. Demaqnd for parts and raw materials fell sharply in the U.S., and suppliers for those… Read more »
PancakeBot will not solve the problem of world hunger, bring about world peace, or even get your breakfast on the table faster and more accurately than your painstaking manual methods. So what’s it good for? PancakeBot allow you to program a specialized 3-D printer to make any image you like from pancake batter. Different amounts… Read more »
Rexroth’s ActiveCockpit software has won Special Mention in the Human Interface Category of the prestigious German Design Award. The German Design Council, the organization that presents the German Design Award, was impressed by the focus on employee experience that is central to Rexroth software. ActiveCockpit collects production data and shares a visualization on a user-friendly… Read more »
Indramat, Indradrive, Indraworks, Indralogic, Indradyne, Indramotion, Indracontrol… the list goes on and on. What’s this Indra, and what’s the difference among all the various forms of Indra- motion control? To get the answer, we have to go back to the mid 20th century. In 1958, a company called “Gesellschaft zur INDustrialisierung-RAtionalisierung und AutoMATisierung” came… Read more »
Rexroth has amazing demonstrations of Industry 4.0 smart factories in operation in locations from Germany to India. Rexroth is also a strong presence at manufacturing trade shows, from the UK to Vietnam. If international travel is not on your current schedule, you may be able to catch the roadshow. Four to five stops are scheduled… Read more »
Remember the battle between Beta and VHS? Maybe you don’t. Netflix won. Rexroth wasn’t involved in that fight, but they’re ready for the equivalent tech battle shaping up in the Internet of Things. Maciej Kranz, author of Building the Internet of Things: Implement New Business Models, Disrupt Competitors, Transform Your Industry, used the Beta/VHS comparison… Read more »
The United States has been reshoring for some years now, bringing manufacturing back from China to the United States. Or has it? A report from A. T. Kearney says that there has been less reshoring activity than offshoring activity for the past four years. “The manufacturing import ratio is calculated by dividing manufactured goods imports… Read more »
Heat failure is one of the biggest problems for motion control technology, especially as we move into warmer temperatures. What causes heat failure? Well, obviously, heat. Ambient temperatures get higher in spring and summer, of course, but we don’t always notice it. If it’s a gradual increase, we humans can gradually adjust. Servomotors and drives… Read more »
If you’re burning out your Rexroth electric motion control repeatedly, there’s a bigger problem. “Repeatedly ” here means that when a component burns out, everyone remembers the last time it happened. Rexroth drives often go for decades without any problems at all. Burnouts could reflect a number of problems, from poor atmospheric conditions to dirty… Read more »
The National Inventors Hall of Fame has announced their 2017 inductees. The class of 2017, who will be celebrated in May of this year, includes these inventors: Iver Anderson, 1953- , Lead-free solder Don Arney, 1947- , Bambi bucket for aerial firefighting Carolyn Bertozzi, 1966- , Bioorthogonal Chemistry Earle Dickson, 1892-1961, Band-Aid Harold E. Froehlich,… Read more »
