Engineers Get Help in a New Technical Center

Aimed at providing engineering and technical assistance for its semiconductor and medical customers, Bosch Rexroth has opened a new center in Pleasanton, CA. Its aim is to provide support throughout the entire product development cycle for engineering departments. Driving creation of the new center is anticipated growth in the semiconductor OEM and manufacturing markets and the growing trend toward outsourcing of motion control needs for equipment builders.

The support includes aid in defining requirements of an application, developing technical solutions, and the commission and testing of prototypes. Through the center, customers will find direct links to Rexroth technology groups that offer special knowledge and experience in linear motion and assembly, electric drives and controls, and pneumatics, among others.

"We offer solutions not just as individual components," says Bosch Rexroth president and CEO in North America, Wolfgang Dangel, "but also as combined products all from one source to help OEMs streamline their machine design, engineering, supply chain, and assembly needs. This allows them to concentrate more on differentiating high value products for their customers."

The company offers servo motors, drives, controls, HMIs, and I/O systems. Too, it has linear motion ball rail and ball screw systems as well as a line of pneumatics that includes miniature and standard valves and cylinders, non-contact transfer units, rotary indexers, wafer- handling frames, and grippers. Learn about these and other Bosch Rexroth products at www.boschrexroth- us.com.