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 »
Automation for lights, according to Rexroth-Bosch’s research, can save up to 60% in energy consumption. Sounds green? It is. We’re all aware that automation increases throughput and decreases staffing costs, thereby creating greater productivity with lower costs. But did you realize that automation is also good for the environment? The main reason that automation is… Read more »
Indramat means excellent drive and control technologies, right? However, it also means “Gesellschaft zur INDustrialisierung-RAtionalisierung und AutoMATisierung” or, in English, “Association for Industrialization, Rationalization, and Automation.” Indramat was born in 1958, when nobody had a computer at home, going to space was the biggest technology goal, and robots were found in science fiction, not in… Read more »
As the American manufacturing sector begins to recover and manufacturing jobs return to the United States, China has been in the news. Certainly, China comes up as a threat to U.S. manufacturing jobs. American workers can’t compete with Chinese workers on price or on tolerance for difficult working conditions, and China continues to be a… Read more »
