Bosch Rexroth Canada offers free Automation Resource Kits

May 19, 2018

Bosch Rexroth Canada offers free Automation Resource Kits at www.boschrexroth.ca/resourcekits, providing useful, technical information and advice on a variety of engineering and automation-related topics.

Bosch Rexroth Canada is pleased to offer resource kits to the Canadian market, which provide useful, technical information & advice on a variety of engineering and automation-related topics. The kits currently offered include: Lean Production and Automation Insights, Linear Motion & Mechatronics @ Work, Advancing Factory Automation, Hydraulics Performance and Mobile Hydraulics Solutions. Kits are free of charge and are delivered on a 2-GB flash drive. The request form can be found at www.boschrexroth.ca/resourcekits.

Lean Production and Automation Insights
Rexroth’s experience with lean manufacturing challenges paves the way for those wanting to drive their own lean production initiatives forward. This kit helps customers discover new and creative ways to use lean production and automation technology to accelerate improvements in factories with all types of production models. It provides detailed guidebooks, links to lean manufacturing podcasts recorded by prominent lean experts, as well as a lean technical paper, “Lean production and automation: How to find the right mix,“ among its broad range of white papers and videos.

Linear Motion & Mechatronics @ Work
For those in need of mechatronics solutions, look no further than this Rexroth Resource Kit for in-depth engineering support and a broad range of linear motion and mechatronics technology development tools. The most popular resource kit, the Linear Motion & Mechatronics @ Work Kit includes a digital copy of the 350+ page engineering reference book, Linear Motion Technology Handbook, in addition to white papers, how-to guides and other exclusive Rexroth engineering content.

Advancing Factory Automation
For automation-driven factories in need of smart, productive technologies, fast changeovers and maximum flexibility, along with increasing demands for improved energy efficiency and machine safety, Rexroth’s Advancing Factory Automation kit can offer practical steps forward. It narrows down a specially selected portfolio of Rexroth automation case studies, technical papers, technology brochures, videos and links to online resources. The tools and engineering insight offered by Rexroth’s experts will help advance performance and value in automated systems and equipment of virtually any size or type. The Advancing Factory Automation kit includes a hard copy of the Special Machine Tool Application Excerpt from 10 steps to performance level: Handbook for the implementation of functional safety according to ISO 13849.

Additional resource kits are available from Rexroth at its main website at www.boschrexroth.ca/resourcekits. In addition to the kits described here, customers will find the Hydraulics Performance kit and the Mobile Hydraulics Solutions kit.

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