Bosch Rexroth has opened a caller lawsuit innovation halfway adjacent Austin, Texas. The installation volition supply a unsocial technology-development acquisition for Bosch Rexroth mill automation customers from aggregate manufacture segments, including electrical conveyance manufacturing, artillery production, user packaged goods and semiconductor manufacturing, they note.
Located successful Round Rock extracurricular of Austin, the Rexroth Customer Innovation Center (CIC) is housed successful a custom-outfitted, astir 9,200-square-foot gathering with aggregate exhibits and presumption areas wherever visitors tin larn astir Bosch Rexroth factory automation and industrial-hydraulics products and technology. The CIC features interactive exertion demos that integrate aggregate Rexroth factory-automation systems, including the company’s ctrlX AUTOMATION platform, Smart MechatroniX systems, TS assembly conveyors, autonomous mobile robot, linear motor-based Flexible Transport System (FTS), astute hydraulics and different technologies.
The demos alteration visitors to spot a scaled mentation of a implicit factory-automation accumulation line.
Through the CIC, visitors volition person the accidental to link with different Rexroth innovation centers, including the company’s flagship CU.BE center successful Germany, successful a increasing web of akin facilities being established passim the US and globally. This web allows for much immersive integer experiences done virtual connections and integer duplicate capabilities. With this connection, customers and Rexroth partners tin entree different exertion experts, on with an expanded scope of mill automation technologies astir the world, they claim.
The Austin CIC besides has an engineering lab, wherever manufacturing customers and different partners tin articulation engineering teams from Bosch Rexroth globally to code circumstantial mill automation challenges and applications.
The laboratory provides a collaborative mounting to lick manufacturing strategy design, engineering and implementation challenges. Customers tin prosecute with Bosch Rexroth experts to make moving prototypes and proof-of-concept systems that integrate aggregate controls, drives, worldly transport, assembly and linear question products from the company’s industry-leading portfolio.
“The caller Customer Innovation Center gives our mill automation customers an accidental for a unique, customer-focused experience, providing a abstraction wherever they tin interact with and larn astir our existent and aboriginal innovations to determination their manufacturing operations forward,” said Bosch Rexroth North America President and CEO Greg Gumbs. “It volition service arsenic a cardinal constituent of interaction for customers, users, partners and our ain engineering and applications improvement teams, wherever we tin research ideas and make solutions that absorption connected improving productivity, manufacturing flexibility and efficiency.”