The new reality of manufacturing is that there will no longer be hundreds of low-skilled humans toiling away at the assembly line. The jobs for people will be jobs that require more specific training. Manufacturers are already seeing problems with a lack of training in workers, and labor groups claim that those manufacturers are not… Read more »
Concerns about the security of the Internet of Things are one of the stumbling blocks slowing down Industry 4.0. But this may just be a confusion between the Internet of Things in general and the Industrial Internet of Things. The recent 2017 Consumer Electronics show had plenty of IoT goodies to show off. How about… Read more »
The Rexroth Road Show has presented the new face of industrial automation to more than 1,200 people at 125 companies in the northern half of the U.S. since it reached our shores in June. Rexroth’s traveling show is for engineers, and it’s a big hit wherever it goes. So what’s the Rexroth Road Show? It’s… Read more »
Rexroth strutted plenty of drive and control stuff at FABTECH 2016 and at PACK EXPO 2016. Among the most popular demonstrations at FABTECH were the newest scalable, computer numerically controlled (CNC) solutions for fabricating and welding. The new IndraMotion equipment can use literally up to hundreds of axes, allowing a level of precision that cannot… Read more »
When you’re planning and monitoring production of real goods, you have two options. You can push production out, making as many of your products as possible with the resources available, and rely on sales and marketing people to move the stock you’ve created. Alternatively, you can use the pull strategy, where you respond to demand… Read more »
Most of our clients use Rexroth electric motion control in industrial applications: printing, packaging, sheet metal, textiles, and the like. If you use Rexroth drive and control technology in that setting, you might not be aware that Rexroth also moves the movies. Some of Rexroth’s credits: Spider-Man, Master & Commander, Titanic, Jurassic Park, The Perfect… Read more »
Rexroth’s Bethlehem, Pennsylvania plant has received platinum certification in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Superior Energy Performance program. Rexroth has been working hard on energy efficiency for as long as we’ve known them, so we know the Bethlehem facility’s new award from the Department of Energy is well deserved. The facility began by establishing baselines,… Read more »
Unlike the U.S., Japan has an official Robot Strategy. It consists of three major initiatives: 1. Make Japan the world’s center of robot innovation by improving robot creation skills across the nation. 2. Make Japan the world leader in actually using robots in more settings, not just. 3. Make Japan a leader in robotics IoT…. Read more »
“Safety first” is a great motto when it comes to any machinery, but we’re especially conscious of it with autonomous vehicles. In fact, even though driverless cars have better safety stats than cars with human drivers, polls of drivers routinely find that most of us aren’t ready to trust them. Outgoing Secretary of Transportation Anthony… Read more »
What’s driving demand for servo motors as we move into 2017? A recent report on the industrial motion control market identifies four factors that are expected to cause continued increase in demand for servo motors within this market. First, there’s the increasing urbanization and industrialization in developing countries. China, India and other global players have… Read more »
