November 2011 Throughput boosted by twenty-five percent and maintenance effort reduced. These are the achievements of a Rexroth linear motion system used to produce hard disk drives for entertainment electronics. The first generation of the 200 Lean manufacturing system produced eight hundred hard disks per hour; the next generation turns out one thousand units. “Higher [...]
November 2011 The Cama Group adds value to its packaging line with multi-robot operation in a single machine. Rexroth drive and control technology guarantees an efficient, reliable and easily expandable production process. If you buy chocolate bars, you want to have chocolate bars – tasty, glossy and in one piece. That means the packaging process [...]
November 2011 Thousands of lipsticks are produced every hour, all around the world. In the manufacturing lines built by Weckerle GmbH, the Rexroth VarioFlow chain conveyor system supplies input materials without interruption. The first lipstick was presented by French perfumers at the 1883 World’s Fair in Amsterdam. The mixture of castor oil, beeswax and deer [...]
November 2011 Ortic is the only company in the world to use a 3-D principle in its roll former design. In this interview, company founder Lars Ingvarsson talks about Ortic’s development history and the partnership with Rexroth. What is so special about your roll formers? This type of machine has been around for quite a [...]
July 2011 A high-accuracy drive and control system cuts costs and boosts efficiency in solar cell production – thanks to Rexroth’s shaftless motion control system. Converting the power of the sun directly into energy seems to be a fairly simple idea. But achieving that goal is quite a challenge. Compared with coal-fired generation, for example, [...]
March 2011 A new screen printing line built by Kammann minimizes the time needed to change out the inking unit and thus saves money. One hour – that’s the maximum time needed to ready the K15 CNC screen printing press for the next job. Refitting conventional presses can take as much as four hours and [...]
March 2011 High-tech entertainment electronics – from diminutive MP3 players to large LED screens – are what Blusens Global Corporation manufactures on its new, automated line. And it has to be one thing above all: flexible. At Blusens, located in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the spirits are high. This manufacturer of modern entertainment electronics [...]
October 2010 New packing lines built in Norway stack milk cartons twenty percent faster. Milk straight from the cow and into the glass? That might be possible, but only on the farm. Consumers in towns nonetheless want their milk just that fresh. This requires quick filling and packing. The Norwegian automation specialists at Advanced Machine [...]
October 2010 Wolfgang Schmahl GmbH & Co. KG has developed a flexible test bed for drive axles. Matthias Schmahl monitored and documented this process in the thesis he wrote as a prerequisite for his degree as a mechanical engineer. by Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Schmahl, Wolfgang Schmahl GmbH & Co. KG In recent years the firm Wolfgang [...]
October 2010 A Finnish developer of robotic gantry technology is setting new energy efficiency standards with a new XYZ gantry for vehicle tires. Whenever objects are set in motion, they will ultimately have to be brought to a stop again. That is a simple fact that often means headaches for environment-conscious mechanical engineers. Brake action [...]