by Dr. Hans-Georg Bittner, WTH-Wärmetechnik Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
Hans-Georg Bittner developed the first fully automatic hardening unit for saw blades. This machine, built by WTH, turns out premium quality, blade for blade. At the same time it’s easy on the environment.
For years now it has been possible to harden large, flat products such as saw blades with [...]
Specialists and service: Rexroth system integrators are the perfect partners for complete, customized solutions.
System integrators act as the liaison between supplier and customer. The advantages: Clients need not have their own specialists in a specific field. They also have direct access to a technology manager. The integrator’s know-how augments the supplier’s direct sales channels by [...]
P.H.L., a Canadian maker of machinery for forest products, uses the complete Rexroth range of technologies. This has paved the way to worldwide success.
This French Canadian firm, a specialist in sawmill and planing machinery, was only looking for new hydraulic components to install in its equipment. What it discovered, however, was that with the performance [...]
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 vast majority [...]
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 earlier. [...]
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 the light bulb’s [...]