Some Rexroth controllers use a multimedia card (MMC). There’s a whole range of errors you can encounter with your MMC, some hard to fix and some easy. Here are some MMC errors you might encounter. Query: Load safety technology parameters from MMC? If you get this message, then your MMC has changed since the last… Read more »
OT and IT are often at odds and that probably comes from a lot of bad history together. IT is often all about the latest and greatest, wanting to keep things updated and the most recent firmware on machines. OT, however, knows that this isn’t always possible with legacy equipment. As legacy equipment is brought… Read more »
U.S. manufacturers are in a race: can they replace skilled factory workers with robots before they all retire? Part of the problem is that automation tends to replace unskilled labor. Highly skilled jobs continue to need human workers, and no one seems to be trying to replace highly skilled human workers. Unskilled workers are being… Read more »
Have you ever had one of those special cars? The door doesn’t open when it’s cold, and when it’s hot the trunk won’t stay up when you open it. You have to turn the key just the right way to make it start, and the window needs to be pulled up manually from the top… Read more »
Brushed motors came first — by a long chalk. Ernst Werner von Siemens invented the brushed DC motor in 1856. The brushed DC motor was the only game in town for over a century, till the brushless motor was developed in the 1970s. Indramat’s brushless AC Servo was released in 1979, and quickly became the… Read more »
The Winter Olympics are over. They had their share of heartbreaks and triumphs, surprises and excitement, and winter sports fans are still savoring their favorite moments. It’s also now time to determine whether South Korea’s side focus on robots paid off. 85 robots were among the workers at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South… Read more »
The traditional way to set up a factory line is to buy or build a machine that does a specific task, find a safe place for it, and install a conveyor from that machine to the next one. An uncoiler feeds aluminum through a lubricator, for example, and then on to a cupping press. The… Read more »
We admit it: most of our clients do things like build cars, print packages, or whip paper cups together at dizzying speeds. As specialists in Rexroth electric drive and motion control, we do serious work. But Rexroth is bringing a spirit of fun to the Industry 4.0 Summit. Right there in Manchester, UK, Rexroth is… Read more »
Do you want to speed things up in your plant? Are you sure? Faster is usually possible, but will the equipment take the load? What will the next bottleneck be? We had a client who spent a ton of money to speed up the packing section of his plant to 2x the capacity. He could… Read more »
Enter the Rexroth factory in China and you might see banners announcing Saturday study sessions for the Communist Party. A law in China says that any business employing three or more members of the Communist Party must set up a party cell. Like Young Democrats or Young Republicans on campuses in the U.S., these groups… Read more »
