Adidas opened a factory in Germany and one in the U.S. over the past two years, both of them very modern and automated. They’ve just confirmed that they will be ending production at those facilities and moving the machinery to Asia. The New York Post announced, “American robots lose jobs to Asian robots as Adidas… Read more »
Rexroth’s electric industrial automation division began when the company acquired Indramat in the 20th century. Rexroth brand names like “IndraDrive” and “IndraDyne” still honor Indramat, a revolutionary motion control company in its own right. If you see the word “Indramat” on an ailing servo, drive, or controller, you’re in luck. Rexroth continues to support most… Read more »
Reman, or remanufacturing, is one of your options when you’ve got a faulty servo motor, drive, or controller. Is it your best option? Certainly, reman can save you money. But you might be surprised to hear that reman can be better than new. Legacy parts With legacy parts, you don’t have the option of buying… Read more »
The Wall Street Journal reports that plenty of retailers, warehouses, and logistics companies are gearing up for the holiday season by hiring tens of thousands of human workers. This happens every year, and it really isn’t news. “Surge” workers help out in the holiday season when retail and related industries may see demand increase tenfold…. Read more »
Integrated safety technology in Rexroth drive and motion control systems focuses on motion control. Devices may be locked, motions may be limited, brakes may be managed… the object is always to keep your machinery from being in the same place at the same time as a human operator or bystander. The newest version of the… Read more »
“We don’t automate jobs,” Alex Garden, CEO of food-tech startup Zume, said in a recent interview. “We automate boring, dangerous, repetitive tasks.” This is the general story of automation: using technology to improve the lives of human beings. The human beings don’t always appreciate it. One group of anti-machine protestors were the Luddites, a group… Read more »
What responsibility does a manufacturer have for their products, and what should they do about items that are coming to the end of their life (EOL)? In motion control, and especially when you’re talking about the Indramat motion control from Rexroth Bosch which is our specialty, you often have drives or controllers or motors that… Read more »
Short of an explosion, unscheduled downtime is the biggest issue for most manufacturing facilities. Whether you’ve got a big problem or a small one, if you have to shut down the line for any period of time, you’re looking at cost overruns, scheduling issues, and unhappy customers. Fortunately, Rexroth has always been concerned with downtime…. Read more »
Manufacturers have been worrying about the Skills Gap for years. Automation requires skills in math, technology, even engineering. Yet U.S. grads continue to major in business, history, sociology, and psychology — that’s more than a third of American college grads right there. High school grads typically don’t have the science and math chops to major… Read more »
We work with lots of printing presses, so I guess it’s natural that we would be interested in the history of printing. It’s even more natural that we would be interested in the future of printing. The future of printing is a lot harder to lay out, though. Imagine a tree with multiple branches. Each… Read more »
