A unique virtual reality tool from Bosch Rexroth provides hydraulics maintenance and service professionals with immediate advice from product and application experts. The company’s Hägglunds Insight Live service uses augmented reality to give customers access to a Bosch Rexroth service expert easily, without waiting, travel or high costs. Using either a smart phone or a […]
New radial-piston motor is shorter, more powerful
To address the need among mobile-equipment builders for fluid-power drives that have higher power density, Bosch Rexroth is expanding its range of direct drives with the new MCR-T radial-piston motor in frame size 10. The motors are for use in compact tracked loaders and other tracked vehicles. The newly designed unit is approximately 20% shorter […]
Bosch Rexroth Corporation reaches 5,000 distribution
Rexroth Resource Kits include handbook excerpts, case studies, technical papers, videos and online tools, providing engineersa must-have resource on each kit’s respective topic. Bosch Rexroth has reached a…
Fluid power fights back: a review of green technology
In many ways, green fluid power technology is just starting to hit its stride. Twenty years ago, a green, efficiency-minded design was little more than a feather in the cap of a fluid power system. If the fluid power industry wasn’t actively fueling its dirty technology reputation, it wasn’t working too hard to fix it…
New hydraulic power unit for machine tools
The new small power unit CytroPac from Rexroth shows how small installation space requirements are for modern hydraulic solutions. Rexroth integrates hydraulic components with a frequency converter, motor, pump and sensorics in one housing to form a cabinet-free power unit. Being a plug-and-run solution, the new series simplifies commissioning and reduces energy consumption by up…
Large-part straightening machine with simplified hydraulics
Edited by: Mike Santora • Associate Editor Whether it’s profiles or rods and rolls, in many applications steelworks are requiring higher accuracies for the linearity of their products. For workpieces up to 30 m long and diameters up to 800 mm, MAE Maschinen-und Apparatebau Götzen designed a large-part straightening machine with more flexibility and better…
Configuration tool offers millions of combinations with quick lead times
Rexroth GoPak hydraulic power units, formerly offered as RexPak units, combine high-quality engineering, rapid delivery and short lead times using the company’s GoDesigner product configurator. Available online, on iOS and Android tablet devices and with limited functionality on smartphones, the GoDesigner tool streamlines customization for fixed and variable displacement pumps, motors and thousands of additional…
How can hydraulics work within Industry 4.0?
Last month, I wrote about a visit to Morrell Group in Auburn Hills, Mich., as it hosted Bosch Rexroth’s “Smart Factory” tour. I am sure there are many naysayers out there that believe that hydraulics can’t be smart or that it cannot offer the many options that are available with electronic components. But those naysayers…
The hidden keys to smart automation: efficiency and humans
Smart factories are about more than sensors communicating with each other and with networks. They are about employee safety and comfort, energy efficiency, streamlining operations, automation and so much more. That’s the message that came through during a recent visit to Morrell Group in Auburn Hills, Mich., as it played host to Bosch Rexroth for…
Torque Arm Drive System (TADS) shrinks installation costs, saves floor space
The Hägglunds TADS is a completely self-contained system and comes with either internal splines or a hollow output shaft with a compression coupling that easily mounts directly to a machine’s drive shaft. Flexible shaft couplings and associated alignment problems, extra long hoses or lines, and control lines between conventional power unit and motor are eliminated.…
Smart Technology: It’s closer than you think
We are in the midst of another industrial revolution, but this one has us with our heads in the clouds and our hands ready to cut the wires. We all know fluid power is a multifaceted technology, but it is also a mature one. Changes are coming, however, as companies look to tie fluid power…
Instilling Passion About Education — and Fluid Power
In the greater engineering world, there is one topic of conversation that is on many minds—that of education and the perceived—or real—shortage of engineers and skilled workers. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and STEAM, which adds Arts, are constantly being pushed to elementary, middle and high school students, with the aim of encouraging them…
Fit4Filter 3.1 makes ordering hydraulic filters faster and easier
Fit4Filter smartphone app v3.1 includes QR code scanner, new search functions Bosch Rexroth has just released the latest version of its Fit4Filter smartphone app, which allows customers to cross reference and replace their existing hydraulic filter elements with the corresponding Rexroth filters. The app, now at version 3.1, is available for both Apple® and Android…
Turn down the heat (and noise) with variable speed technology
Over the last 30 years, many predicted the demise of hydraulics, as they expected to see electric drives gain in popularity in industrial settings. There was a misconceived notion that hydraulics were dirty and dumb. But the power density advantage and growth of intelligent hydraulics—the combination of electrical controls and hydraulics—helped to ensure this demise…
Bosch launches axial piston pump for smaller power classes
Rexroth’s AV1O offers the benefit of load sensing principles used on larger machines’ axial piston variable pumps in which hydraulic systems provide power only when needed. As fuel prices continue to fluctuate dramatically, the mobile machine builder needs to find ways to make their machines more energy efficient, without sacrificing the package size or…
New Rexroth CDL2 cylinder is designed for 2 million load cycles
Machine manufacturers are increasingly demanding cost-optimized hydraulic cylinders with a high degree of reliability. Bosch Rexroth meets these demands with the new CDL2 mill type cylinder for both pressure ranges of 160 and 250 bars. They are designed for two million load cycles. Design engineers can thus accurately calculate the cylinderâs lifecycle for each application…
Pneumatic Push-in Fitting Sample from Rexroth Pneumatics
Try before you buy – what’s better than free? Take advantage of a new online offer from Rexroth Pneumatics for a free sample of the Series QR1 pneumatic push-in fittings. Series QR1 fittings from Rexroth Pneumatics are a light-weight, polymer design suitable for all Rexroth pneumatic products such as valves and cylinders. The push-to-connect style…
New Rexroth Hydraulic Tie Rod Cylinder Catalog available for download
Bosch Rexroth’s new Hydraulic Tie Rod Cylinder Catalog, RA17000/02.2013, provides comprehensive technical information on the company’s CDT, CST and CGT series of National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) style hydraulic tie rod cylinders, with data on selection criteria and features, product specifications, mounting options, spare parts, service and repair, ordering information, and more. The 256-page catalog…
Hydraulics aids in keeping offshore platforms stable
Barge Master BV, a Dutch company, has installed Rexroth motion compensation to neutralize waves and enhance the usefulness and safety of offshore cranes. Barge Master launched the BM-001, its first operational motion compensation platform in December to provide stability and safety to offshore crane operations. The moving platform uses a drive and control system neutralize…