The Rexroth company began in Germany in 1795 with a hammer mill, so you might say that they’re just going back to their roots with ODiN, the Online Diagnostics Network. Odin, in Germanic mythology, was the father of Thor, whose hammer is well known from movies, even to those of us who didn’t put in… Read more »
Rexroth has a history of collaboration with schools in support of STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education. Rexroth has also been affected by the challenges most U.S. manufacturing companies have faced in hiring qualified workers. Now, in a major collaboration with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system and other industry leaders, Rexroth has built a new center… Read more »
Manufacturers have been talking about automation and jobs for some time. Can robots replace human workers? Will we be able to find any qualified human workers, or will we be stuck with robots? Can robots and humans work together? How will robotic and human coworkers communicate in the new world of Industry 4.0? Economists have… Read more »
We’re in the middle of Industrial Revolution #4, or in less colorful terms, Industry 4.0. Rexroth has won the Industry 4.0 Award from trade journal Produktion and ROI Management Consulting AG. The reason for the award? The hydraulic valve assembly line in Homburg/Saar, Germany, which was determined to be the best example of Industry 4.0… Read more »
There’s a classic pattern: A guy has a rough day at work and his boss yells at him. Upset, the guy goes and yells at an underling. He goes home and yells at his wife. The wife, stressed by the quarrel, yells at the kid. The kid, angry about being yelled at, kicks the cat…. Read more »
A new initiative from the White House aims to increase Americans’ job skills in tech areas, and to speed up both training and hiring to get more Americans into well-paying jobs more quickly. Today, only 16% of high school grads have both the interest and the math background to enter jobs — such as manufacturing… Read more »
What makes a factory smart? Integration When all the machines can communicate and all provide a consistent user interface, the factory will certainly be smarter. We’re getting ever closer to this possibility. Rexroth’s open source Open Core Interface is one of the initiatives that’s moving us closer. Open Core allows PLC-based engineering and IT automation… Read more »
What will the factory be like in the future? Here are some major trends to watch. Manufacturing and services Manufacturing is all about transforming raw materials into finished goods, right? Increasingly, factories are also providing services. Remanufacturing of parts, consultation on best practices in packaging, and logistics are all providing revenue streams for manufacturers now…. Read more »
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is growing as a field of research in robotics. Topics range from safety for humans when robots and humans work in the same space, to consumer response to robots, to the best kind of interface for shared control over automation. Shared control? Absolutely. As a favorite sentence from the Journal of Human-Robot… Read more »
Are you thinking about having your servo motor, drive, and control repairs done at a Certified Rexroth Repair Shop? Think again. Rexroth doesn’t certify third party repair shops. They don’t sell parts to third party repair shops. They don’t provide specs or training for third party repair shops. Rexroth factory repairs and remans get you… Read more »
