Posts Categorized: Blog

Moving Rexroth Units

Since Rexroth drive and control units are modular, it’s easy to replace a faulty unit. Just localize the problem, so that you can be sure which unit is faulty. Shut down the machine correctly if it has not already been shut down. Remove the faulty unit and replace it with an identical Rexroth unit. Power… Read more »

The Stars Tonight

We completely agree that Rexroth is the star in the firmament of industrial motion control, and this should be an inspiring video for your Friday coffee break. Take a moment to think, too, about the fact that Rexroth, after centuries of experience and with its gargantuan global presence, still supports many of their legacy components…. Read more »

The Effect of Ecommerce on Manufacturing

As a manufacturer, you may not care much about ecommerce. You get the goods produced and it doesn’t really matter to you whether they end up in an ecommerce merchant’s warehouse or on a store shelf. Consumers don’t get much attention from engineers or machine operators — they’re way down at the other end of… Read more »

Rexroth Girls Day

One of the answers to the skills gap and the lack of qualified engineers in U.S. industry could be getting the other half of the nation’s potential workers in play. Just about 11% of the working engineers in the U.S. are women. If there were as many female engineers as there are male engineers, we… Read more »

Bosch Rexroth Wins More Awards for Electric Motion Control

Bosch Rexroth has picked up some more awards for game-changing electric industrial motion control. IndraMotion MTX Micro, an outgrowth of the legacy Indramat technology that is still reflected in the name “Indradrive,” won the Engineers’ Choice Award. Control Engineering magazine gives these awards, and the MTX Micro was their top choice in the Machine &… Read more »

2AD Motor Makeover

This 2ad servo motor has seen better days — in fact, we might be tempted to call this a sad motor instead of a 2ad motor. This is definitely the “before” picture. But Rexroth servo motors work hard, and this one has been in service for many years. It’s understandable that there should be some… Read more »

Rexroth Thinks UX

UX — user experience — is a big issue for software designers, but not so much in the average factory. Machine operators are following very specific directives, not crafting products, and thinking about the manufacturer’s ideal customer persona is probably not high on the list for most people in the facility. Getting precisely correct, identical… Read more »

IndraDrive ML Electric Drive

Rexroth motion control can handle everything from the smallest, most delicately precise movements to the largest, most powerful. Check out the new IndraDrive solution for large applications in this new video from Rexroth.

Waste Management in Action Expo

Jernigan’s Law tells us that the shorter the skirts at the trade show, the less new technology will actually be featured. This year, we’re not expecting to see much leg, and trade shows should be interesting. We’re not planning to attend next week’s Australian Waste Management in Action Expo, but that’s not because they’re not… Read more »

Rapid Plasma Deposition

The world’s first industrial-level 3D printing facility will be built in the U.S. in partnership between Rexroth and Norsk Titanium, a major aerospace tech company that uses additive manufacturing in titanium to make specialized parts — check out their ad above. 10 servo axes will control the feeding of the titanium wire into the build… Read more »