Conventional machine design
Traditionally, conventional machine designers have grouped their product choices into distinct areas: hydraulics, electric drives, pneumatics, safety, controls, conveying and mechanics. Each of these areas will normally have several companies bidding to have their products included on the Bill of Materials (BOM) and inevitably selected suppliers tend to focus on their ‘bit’.
This approach can cause problems because it complicates the bidding process, increases the time and energy it takes to source a solution and ultimately increases the burden placed on the machine builder, should there be a failure, for detecting culpability and organising repair or replacement across the wide supplier base.
The new approach
Bosch Rexroth offer more technologies to the machine builder than any other. This wide range of products enables us to view your machine requirements as a complete package.
Rexroth’s automation strategy directly confronts the challenges in relation to minimsing time to market and production time, overall cost of ownership and risk management that machine builders are increasingly facing. It also acknowledges and counters the well documented trend concerning the gradual erosion of engineering knowledge from within UK industry, as experienced by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s ), System Integrators and End Users.
