April 2010 Rexroth was one of the first companies in Europe to adopt JIC connector dimensions and thus helped move standardization forward. Often it’s the little things that make a big difference. At G. L. Rexroth GmbH in the town of Lohr, at the beginning of the 1960s, the little things were connectors in standard [...]
October 2009 The mood in Europe’s board rooms is by no means as gloomy as the current world economic situation might have us suppose. This was the somewhat surprising result of a poll of 2,600 companies, conducted by Simon Kucher & Partners corporate consultants. In spite of declines in orders received and the credit crunch, [...]
The new EU Machinery Directive went into force at the end of 2009 and imposed new safety requirements. How should these regulations actually be implemented when designing machine controls? A guideline. On December 29, 2009, the new 2006/42/EC Machinery Directive went into effect. In addition, a new standard on functional safety, ISO 13849-1, became binding [...]
October 2009 Less and less energy in, more and more production out. Can that work? It can. And it must. The good old-fashioned incandescent light bulb will soon go out forever. Thrifty consumers and demanding legislators have banned it from Europe’s shelves as of 2012. And many more products and technologies are likely to suffer [...]