Automation in mechanical engineeringBosch Rexroth announces 'ctrlX Automation'
At the beginning of September, Bosch Rexroth invited the trade press to an exclusive preview in Ulm. The curtain came down on 'ctrlX Automation' in the Innovation Lab there. This is based on a completely open software architecture combined with a completely new hardware platform.
Steffen Winkler, Sales Manager of the Automation and Electrification Solutions business unit: "Previous automation solutions often lock software developers into proprietary systems or provide isolated solutions that have to be integrated at great expense. Worse still, they restrict software developers to a few programming languages from the world of automation and do not allow access to core functions." This is set to change with 'ctrlX Automation'. In addition to a completely open software architecture ...