Bosch Rexroth Africa delivers industrial automation solutions that power the manufacturing and process industries – driving faster, safer, and more reliable plant performance across the board.
Available through Tectra Automation, our range of industrial automation control systems and industrial automation equipment is engineered to maximise productivity on your plant floor. Built to meet the latest industrial automation systems and manufacturing automation standards, our solutions harness world-leading industry 4.0 technologies to keep your operations future-ready.
As your trusted industrial automation solution provider, we walk every step of your automation journey with you – crafting tailored industrial automation solutions that unlock:
Beyond these gains, our industrial automation systems give your plant the agility to respond faster to market shifts — keeping you a step ahead of the competition.
As one of the region's premier industrial automation suppliers, Tectra Automation proudly distributes premium global brands — including Bosch Rexroth, Aventics, Schmalz and Omal from its branches in Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, plus authorised distributors across the continent.
Enhance automation through a flexible and powerful control, programming and communications design, through either a controller or industrial PC.
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Bosch Rexroth's motion logic control systems from Tectra Automation combine motion, logic and control functions into an integrated unit.
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Servo drives from Tectra Automation, a Bosch Rexroth Africa company, offer complete, precise control of your servomechanism through its range.
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Tectra Automation supplies Bosch Rexroth with a full range of HMI and PLC accessories for a range of applications. Supported across Africa.
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IndraDyn motors from Tectra Automation include servo, linear, torque and high-speed motors for precise, high-performance drive and control.
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Asynchronous AC motors from 400W – 90W. Energy-saving 3-phase motor speed control for factory, production line and industrial automation.
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The new ctrlX AUTOMATION platform is the new Industry 4.0 automation platform for industrial and factory application from Bosch Rexroth.
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Precise and extreme efficiency for any high-output CNC application, including milling, turning, grinding, punching, cutting, lasering, and bending.
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Servo gearboxes from Bosch Rexroth, available across Africa by Tectra Automation provide precise torque multiplication and inertial matching.
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Our integrated system approach helps you to increase assembly automation and handling systems’ productivity while reducing your engineering effort by up to 80%.
Cross-technology solutions with optimally coordinated interfaces that helps customers further reduce energy consumption and emissions without lowering productivity.
Maximise machine tool productivity and efficiency, while ensuring the best possible networking. CNC-system MTX and intelligent drives IndraDrive from Rexroth.
Increase output through exactly defined motion sequences and tailor-made process controllers with reproducible quality and minimal energy consumption assured.
Meet the constantly increasing market requirements of faster format changes, higher precision and less waste at maximum productivity, while saving energy.
Optimise processes and profit with IndraMotion for Efficient Engineering. Get the highest flexibility and efficiency with cabinet-free drive technology for packaging automation.
The world's largest automation technology portfolio for the semiconductor & electronics industry.
A pneumatics compendium for the food & beverage industry with specific system components that fulfill the hygiene and safety demands required in this industry.
Developing reliable and functionally safe electromechanical and hydraulic solutions for power generation plants, ensuring the stability of supply networks.
Tectra Automation is a single-source supplier of pneumatic, electric drive & control, linear & assembly technology, and process valves — built to serve every order, from single-piece to high-volume production.
As part of the Bosch Rexroth Africa Group, we're among the leading industrial automation companies on the continent, delivering trusted industrial automation solutions backed by global expertise.
Tectra Automation's industrial automation systems are built to stay ahead of tomorrow's demands, with:
These industrial automation components power automated material handling systems, robotic process automation, construction automation, and automated manufacturing systems.
Tectra Automation's transfer systems (TS) simplify and speed up component movement across assembly lines, a key part of efficient production line automation, supporting motion control automation and precision across autonomous and semi-autonomous production.
A range of 5 transfer systems for your industrial automation systems:
Pneumatics offer a versatile, cost-effective way to optimise industrial process automation across countless applications.
Custom-built pneumatic industrial automation equipment reduces production time, lowers costs, and improves worker safety.
10-fold production Increase at a wheel assembly plant.
Tectra Automation's pneumatic system design boosted production almost 10-fold using 3/2-way valves with remotely activated plungers and 5/2 valves for cylinder control, improving consistency and cutting raw material waste.
From packaging machines and pneumatic presses to fully autonomous conveyor systems, Tectra Automation is your end-to-end factory automation solutions partner, supplying Bosch Rexroth industrial automation technology across Africa.
Intelligent automation is the future of industrial processing, delivering faster, more flexible operations with greater efficiency and less downtime.
With a vast global portfolio, Bosch Rexroth leads the 4th Industrial Revolution as a trusted industrial automation solution provider.
Modern machine manufacturing demands more flexible, integrated, and faster technology as complex products and rapid delivery pressures continue to rise.
Bosch Rexroth meets this with critical factory automation and engineering built to enhance productivity:
From manual workstations to self-sustaining controls, we help you achieve your ideal manufacturing and assembly layout, powered by reliable industrial automation and control systems.
Smart mechatronic solutions and intelligent products give our linear motion technology the flexibility to adapt to new production processes.
A range of digital engineering tools and configurators simplifies design while making your industrial process automation system smarter, a key part of advanced motion control systems.
As digital transformation is ongoing, we continuously innovate, advancing our motion control automation and industrial control systems to the next level.
Bosch Rexroth delivers leading industrial automation technology tailored to each customer's system requirements – combining precision, connectivity, and reliability across every application.
Smart industrial automation
Our intelligent tightening systems use integrated torque and rotation sensors with smart software functionalities to create process-dependable connections. These tools integrate into your industrial automation environment via cable or WLAN, supporting a wide range of interfaces and protocols for seamless data exchange.
Factory automation and engineering
Our IMS-A integrated measuring system detects absolute position with high precision, even in harsh conditions – acting as both a guiding and measuring device. It's a proven smart industrial automation solution built for demanding factory environments.
Our vision for the factory of the future reimagines industrial automation as a highly mobile, connected production environment:
Move your production processes into Industry 4.0 with Bosch Rexroth's futuristic automation technology, backed by a vast portfolio and global expertise in industrial automation systems.
Pneumatic technology requires far less pressure than hydraulic systems, making it a preferred choice for many industrial automation applications.
Aventics, a leading manufacturer of pneumatic drive and control solutions, distributed and serviced by Tectra Automation, has integrated electronics into its pneumatic range, including the ED series electro-pneumatic pressure regulators and AES modular electronics for advanced valve generation.
This integration delivers the connectivity and functionality needed for machine networking, making Aventics' pneumatic products ideal for modern industrial automation systems.
Bosch Rexroth's Sytronix series combines the best properties of hydraulic and electric systems, enabling industrial automation of steel or iron-constructed valve controls. By decentralising intelligence into the electronically controlled device, it delivers effective, responsive automation.
Bosch Rexroth has also integrated its electrohydraulic expertise into its IndraMotion MLC control solution software, expanding possibilities for advanced industrial automation systems.
This technology harnesses the intrinsic characteristics of fluid technology, replacing complex programming with simple parameterisation.
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Electromechanical actuation is one of the most energy-efficient methods available for manufacturing plants, making it a strong choice for increased use in industrial automation scenarios.
Electronic servo controls further enhance this by delivering high levels of precision across demanding applications.
The Bosch Rexroth System 300 advanced DC tightening system exemplifies this precision, enabling multi-stage programming and multiple synchronisations of spindle motors, a reliable solution for advanced industrial automation systems.
Bosch Rexroth supplies an intelligent tightening system equipped with integrated torque and rotation sensors and intelligent software functionalities.
This guarantees reliable tightening connections. These smart tools can be integrated into the industrial automation environment, either via cable, or wireless via WLAN by means of a wide range of interfaces and protocols for the exchange of commands and data.
Functioning according to the plug and produce principle, the modular Smart Function Kit from Bosch Rexroth is designed to meet the industrial requirements of the future.
The Smart Function Kit achieves future requirements by providing a complete mechatronic package across a wide range of pressing and joining applications like assembly, joining, forming, and testing.
Synchronised hardware and software components (electromechanical cylinder and power sensor, servo motor, drive controller, industrial PC and browser-based HMI software) make up this smart solution. Pre-selected mechanical, electrical automation and software components are combined in various kits for forces from 2 to 30 kN.
Industry 4.0 automation and control solutions are dependent on connectivity between the entire value creation process, not only between OT and IT. Our connected automation platform is an open ecosystem for future-proof automation and industrial manufacturing solutions. This is augmented by the i4.0 connectivity toolbox.
The Industry 4.0 toolbox facilitates plant operators connecting and integrating practically all kinds of devices, standards and interfaces. Some of the solutions provided by this technologically rich software include direct connection of management systems to automation via OPC UA, database connections, integration of office applications, smart devices, and complete i4.0 upgrade kits for existing machines.
Thanks to the most high-performance CNC and Motion Control solutions on the market, we ensure maximum performance of your machines and set the standard for Servo Drives.
The Bosch Rexroth Group is already implementing system solutions that make your machines future-proof for the Internet of Things (IoT). Our many years of experience and passion for automation enable us to develop the ‘factory of the future’, using Industry 4.0 technology.
Industry 4.0 and industrial automation signal the “beginning of the end” for proprietary interfaces. Industrial automation products from Bosch Rexroth, developed in collaboration with OEMs, other manufacturers, leading IT companies and system integrators, incorporate open standard technology.
It enables manufacturers to embrace the emergence of Industry 4.0 smart factories. These products include ctrlX Automation, ctrlX Configurator, ctrlX CORE, ctrlX IPC, ctrlX DRIVE, ctrlX MOTION, Engineering, Industrial IoT, Safety Technology, CNC, Motion Controls, PLC, Industrial PC, Operator Panels, Embedded Controls, I/O, Servo Drives, Frequency Converters and Motors & Gearboxes.
We work with leading IT partners like Open Core Engineering for cutting-edge solutions. This enables our partners and customers to work within their preferred development environment and programming languages. This helps optimise the efficiency and versatility of industrial automation development.
Conquer the traditional boundaries between machine controls, the world of the Internet and IoT.
Introducing ctrlX AUTOMATION from Bosch Rexroth – helping you reduce component and engineering costs by 30% - 50%. It achieves this with a Linux real-time operating system, consistently open standards, app programming technology, web-based engineering and a comprehensive IoT connection.
In other words, ctrlX AUTOMATION breaks boundaries between machine controls, the IT world and the Internet of Things, as the game changer to open ecosystem operations.
Through Linux real-time operating system, consistently open standards, app programming technology, web-based engineering and a comprehensive IoT connection, cntrlX AUTOMATION increases your system’s productivity and efficiency.
ctrlX AUTOMATION is a complete industrial automation solution for Industry 4.0. It offers:
In addition to these plant automation advantages, ctrlX AUTOMATION speaks all languages and can be implemented in every ecosystem. Other benefits include:
Bosch Rexroth helps businesses identify where production processes can become more efficient and cost-effective.
With sophisticated machine automation and motion control systems, our technology delivers:
Our industrial automation solutions give you greater control over production and internal logistics, while reducing direct human contact on the line. This minimises human error, improving product consistency and conformity, while also cutting assembly time to boost overall production rate.
We help keep your industrial automation systems running at optimal performance, with improved project management and the lowest total cost of ownership.
Our sales, workshop and technical personnel are trained and equipped to ensure that each of our customers gets the best service possible. We take all measures to ensure your industrial automation solutions keep on working.
Our installation, commissioning, maintenance and on-site repair offering is supplemented by on-site support, which includes troubleshooting and rectifying faults.
Our experienced team of field service technicians ensure we are available 24/7.
Our repair and maintenance services adhere to all plant and OEM specifications.
Our customers receive a new parts warranty up to 12 months for all components used in repaired products.
Comprehensive spare part sets are available for your automation solutions. We also stock individual spares of high-use components that are prone to wear.
This offering includes core, supplementary, and discontinued products..
The Bosch Rexroth Group, as a leading automation supplier and manufacturing company, is driving industrial automation.
As an early adopter of industrial automation solutions, Bosch Rexroth is well-placed to maximise the benefits, advantages and opportunities that Industry 4.0 brings. One of the most significant of these is the potential for increased collaboration between stakeholders, which results in much faster communication and real-time data exchange.
Industrial automation companies like Bosch Rexroth collect valuable practical experience by applying industrial automation at its own plants around the world.
Through this, the multinational group has proved how work at a Smart Factory with multi-product lines could look in the future.
With its substantial automation portfolio and worldwide production experience, Bosch Rexroth manufactures and supplies leading industrial automation and manufacturing solutions.
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