Bosch Rexroth releases ctrlX AUTOMATION video

According to Bosch Rexroth, its new ctrlX AUTOMATION system “surmounts the classic boundaries between machine controls, the IT world and the Internet of Things”. The company confirms that ctrlX offers a Linux real-time operating system, consistently open standards, app programming technology, web-based engineering and a comprehensive IoT connection.

Bosch Rexroth claims that ctrlX AUTOMATION can reduce component and engineering costs by between 30% and 50 %. This video reveals how the development of ctrlX AUTOMATION come about in the first place, what freedoms the developers enjoyed and what expectations they had to meet. It provides an interesting insight in to how Bosch Rexroth was able to develop a new automation platform from scratch. Worth a watch.