ctrlX AUTOMATION surmounts the classic boundaries between machine controls, the IT world and the Internet of Things.With a Linux real-time operating system, consistently open standards, app programming technology, web-based engineering and a comprehensive IoT connection, ctrlX AUTOMATION reduces components and engineering costs by 30 to 50%.
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A young Berlin-based company is developing durable, freely combinable machines with an innovative punching process for the plastics industry. A key feature is the highly dynamic servodrive technology from Bosch Rexroth. It meets the highest demands as regards functionality and impresses with its high performance.
Both machine manufacturers and users are keen to achieve efficiency gains through automation. The trend here is for increasingly simple processes. And engineering is no exception. Solutions that support people and lighten their load are highly sought-after. This is where ctrlX AUTOMATION and its ctrlX SERVICES come into play. In keeping with the motto “Engineer easilyâ€, the software as a service provides kits of components, for example the Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to make software development easy, a virtual control environment and digital twin and simulation solutions designed to ensure that reliable processes are achieved throughout the development stage, commissioning and operations.
Whether in relation to components, machinery or complete production processes, these days digital twins play an important role in product lifecycles. As digital replicas of products or processes, they depict their properties, status and behavior and hence connect the real world with a virtual one. As such, they ensure reliable processes throughout the development stage, commissioning and operations and can be used for optimization purposes and to improve quality and increase efficiency. The potential that digital twins possess can also be leveraged for ctrlX AUTOMATION.
Learn everything about the revolutionary automation platform at a glance: 10 reasons for ctrlX AUTOMATION as well as an overview of the product portfolio.
“Der Deutsche Innovationspreis†goes to Bosch Rexroth
An innovation that changes an entire market: ctrlX AUTOMATION from Bosch Rexroth completely redefines automation in industry. This innovative power has now been underlined with an important award: “Der Deutsche Innovationspreis†2021. This initiative, founded in 2010 by WirtschaftsWoche, Accenture, and EnBW, named Bosch Rexroth the winner in the “Large Companies†category on June 25 under the patronage of German Federal Minister Peter Altmaier. The award ceremony took place as a digital event.
Machine vision is an integral part of automation, whereby products are used which control automated processes based on industrial camera systems. HD Vision Systems facilitates automation by means of visually guided object localization, tracking and detection as well as QR code scanning. The company now provides these functions as well as interfaces to standard area scan cameras as a vision suite in the ecosystem of the Bosch Rexroth automation platform ctrlX AUTOMATION. In addition, the two companies are developing customized machine vision products as well as a use case for object recognition and oriented placement by means of a Cartesian robot.
HONORED WITH “PLANT ENGINEERING PRODUCT OF THE YEAR†AWARD
Awarded once again! Both our automation platform ctrlX AUTOMATION and our modular drive system ctrlX DRIVE received the “Plant Engineering Product of the Year†award. This award honors outstanding innovations of 2020 in the United States, as voted by the audience of industry-leading publication Plant Engineering.
"Bosch Rexroth to Host Live Industry Webinar Showcasing New Factory of the Future Automation Project"
"Rexroth ON LOCATION—The Future of Factory Automation" will feature world-class precision automation customer DWFritz Automation and their development of a highly complex automated assembly line.
"Lessons learned for new approaches in machine control"
Movie rentals and automation? Digital assets create better customer experience, which applies to today’s open-automation advances, such as separating software from hardware, using open-source designs and easier to implement, more flexible automation.
Bosch Rexroth’s new ctrlX Automation platform addresses multiple functions, such as IoT, control, motion, safety, I/O, and HMI through the use of apps to add system functionality.
Bosch Rexroth Sets New Standards for Safe Automation with ctrlX SAFETY
With ctrlX SAFETY, Bosch Rexroth introduces a novelty to the automation market: the most responsive and compact safety solution of its kind. The scalable system can be used as required–from the drive-integrated SafeMotion solution in ctrlX DRIVE to the complete ctrlX SAFETY control.
BOSCH REXROTH has announced the next level of its open industrial automation platform ctrlX AUTOMATION; ctrlX I/O adds other interfaces on the field and control levels to the platform, a system shaped by app technology.
Con ctrlX AUTOMATION, l’automazione open source di Bosch Rexroth esce dal… lock-in
La piattaforma della multinazionale tedesca offre la possibilità a costruttori di macchine e utenti finali di impiegare linguaggi di programmazione e software differenti, senza più le imposizioni tradizionali. La promessa? Maggiore autonomia e migliore gestione delo shopfloor. Ne abbiamo parlato con quattro manager dell'azienda: Franco Valgoi, Lorenzo Zerbi, Carlo Mariani e Luca Terni
"Bosch Rexroth is presenting its new automation platform, ctrlX AUTOMATION at the SPS"
With the new ctrlX AUTOMATION platform, Bosch Rexroth has eradicated the traditional boundaries between machine control systems, IT and the Internet of Things. Centralized and decentralized automation topologies can now be created flexibly with the scalable platform. Thanks to a Linux real-time operating system, open standards, app programming technology, web-based engineering and a comprehensive IoT connection, ctrlX AUTOMATION reduces the engineering time and effort by 30 to 50%.
"Bosch Rexroth introduces ctrlX AUTOMATION control platform"
ctrlX AUTOMATION offers users a choice: They decide whether to program in IEC 61131, PLCopen or G-Code, or in other conventional high-level or Internet languages.
"Progettazione software flessibile Bosch Rexroth per l’automazione"
Bosch Rexroth presenta ctrlX AUTOMATION, piattaforma scalabile per sviluppo e progettazione software flessibile per tipologie di automazione centralizzate e decentralizzate.
"Bosch Rexroth Introduces New Automation Platform"
With the new ctrlX AUTOMATION platform, Bosch Rexroth has eradicated the traditional boundaries between machine control systems, IT and the Internet of Things.
The ctrlX Configurator supports the complete ctrlX AUTOMATION portfolio and enables individual configuration of automation solutions – simply, quickly, and reliably. Users create the desired system topologies graphically without product knowledge. Support or the offer can be queried directly from the configuration. Round the clock – worldwide.