Collaborative robots — some call them cobots — are a growing segment of the industrial robotics market. They’re a game changer in manufacturing, especially for small to medium businesses that aren’t ready for full-scale industrial automation. Rexroth doesn’t use the term “cobots.” Contact-free human-robot collaboration (HRC) is the Rexroth term. Also Automatic Production Assistants (APAS). Special names… Read more »
The global average for industrial robots is 74 per 10,000 manufacturing workers. Clearly, we’ve got the robots comfortably outnumbered. Except that the global average doesn’t work that well in this case. The country with the largest concentration of industrial robots, South Korea, has 631 robots for every 10,000 workers. The lowest number reported, in India,… Read more »
Made in China 2025 is a ten-year initiative to make China the dominant power in Industry 4.0 and associated fields like robotics and AI. The plan is to become a manufacturing superpower and to be largely self-sufficient when it comes to technology. Rexroth has been part of the plan since the beginning. Rexroth’s support has… Read more »
The question keeps coming up in the news: will automation spell the end of human jobs? One reason is that it’s just flat out scary to a lot of people. They look around a factory that used to have 150 human workers and now has 12, and they think they’d better come up with a… Read more »
When you need service for your Rexroth electric motion control system, you really only have two choices: factory repair and every other option. Other options include third party repair shops. Check out some examples of third party repair shop work: Third party repair Why’d you choose that third party repair shop? Third party repair shop… Read more »
Our typical caller — and that number is (479) 422-0390, in case you need us right now — our typical caller is a manager who is looking at a metal box, maybe with some smoke coming out of it. It says “Indramat” on it, and that’s usually just about all that typical caller can… Read more »
If you found a floppy disc in your office that had vital information on it, or so you thought, would you be able to access it? Probably not. Very few people have computers that can access floppy disc information anymore and even CD-ROMS are being phased out with flash drives and cloud downloads of programs…. Read more »
Your Rexroth electric motion control is hanging out in a corner, possibly in a locked cabinet, and we know from talking with our clients that plenty of you haven’t even looked at that servo or drive in decades. You’d think collaboration would be the last thing on the minds of the people who make them…. Read more »
If an engineering marvel needs motion control, Rexroth is probably involved. A recent example is ROADS, the Renault Optimization Autonomous Driving Simulator, the world’s most advanced driving simulator. Built to accept a 6000 kg payload and to accelerate at 1 g, the motion control system is designed for awesome power and impeccable safety. It will… Read more »
Batteries are so ordinary now, so basic to our experience of the world that we hardly even think about them. Your main thought about batteries and your industrial control system may be astonishment when you find out that you need to change your batteries every now and then. But batteries are, when you think about… Read more »
