Welcome to the Automation Community!

This community is your entry to the digital world of the Industrial Automation ecosystem. It is your central point of support for the Automation portfolio of Bosch Rexroth. We are pleased to announce that the scope of the new community is being expanded to include Factory Automation products. The business areas Automation & Electrification Solutions, Linear Motion Technology, Assembly Technology and Joint Solution will provide product support and extensive descriptions for cross-technology solutions.

The community accelerates the speed of your engineering and commissioning by the best-in-class support from all experts. Find resources like ctrlX OS Store for software download, a knowledge base of How-tos, FAQs, Examples, Solutions and Trainings as well as Forums for your questions that will foster a spirit of learning and sharing. We also provide access to web applications and services at a glance.

Support channel overview


ctrlX OS Store

  • Discover development related news for ctrlX OS apps, SDKs and services.

  • Compact summary for new or updated runtime and engineering software.

  • Download apps, purchase app licenses or simply test the newest software with trial time based licenses.

  • Subscribe to a topic and get informed whenever an update of software or product information is available.

How-to 

  • Find an extensive collection of how-to illustrations and how-to videos that guide you through the first steps.

  • FAQs about particular topics and products.

  • First-step examples up to extensive application solutions including source code, project setups and example ordering configurations.

  • Technical notes explain requirements and setups in detail.

Forum

  • Post your questions and ideas. Get an answer directly from our experts.

  • The ctrlX World Partners advise you on the use of their applications.

  • Find the latest news and announcements.

Complete your product configuration and commissioning with these web applications and services

  • Device Portal - helps to maintain and protect devices. It allows significant savings when maintaining and updating device software.

  • Docs - Product Documentation. Find all product-related documents in one place, always online and up-to-date. Download all documents as PDF for offline usage.

  • Configurator - individual configuration of automation solutions.

  • EPLAN Generator - enables the generation of part data (macros, function templates, ...) for use in EPLAN Electric P8.

  • GitHub - we present ready-to-use solution examples including source code and building/executing instructions on our organisation account.

  • Download - Access to download area.

  • Trainings - Search and select the training you need from a wide range of options.

As a member of this community, your insights, experiences, and contributions shape our collective journey. Let's engage, innovate, and elevate our community with every post.

Community Rules - Does and Don'ts

This community is created by Bosch Rexroth for its customers, partners or other enthusiasts. Therefore, we welcome everyone with an interest in Bosch Rexroth products to join the community, as long as you observe these community rules.

Be engaged.

This community is a place for open discussion, sharing thoughts, ideas, knowledge and skills and asking questions. All are welcome and appreciated! Help us to build this community and knowledge source by engaging with other community members. Your participation is essential to help us improve, grow and make this community strong.

Do not violate Copyright & Confidentiality.

Remember that you are responsible for all activity associated with your account. Do not post anything that would violate any contractual agreements (copyright, trade secret or otherwise) or nondisclosure agreements to which you are a party. Whenever you share content that belongs to someone else, please ensure that you give the proper credit to the author(s) and that you have the authorization to do so.

Be relevant.

Make sure your contributions are relevant to the mission of the community, to the specific discussion style and topic where you post. Please do not post duplicate messages in different areas of the community to avoid fragmenting discussion. If you have a new question, start a new thread rather than interrupting a conversation. Solicitations are rarely relevant. If you have something you want members to join, participate in, or buy, ask us first.

No SPAM, please.

No one likes SPAM, so please keep our community a spam-free zone.

Business time and contact.

Although our worldwide experts are supporting this community, our main support time is from Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. CET/CEST.
If you have any technical issue with the community platform itself, you can contact us at [email protected]. 
Sorry, but we will not answer any product related questions via this email.

Do not pretend to be someone else.

Please do not create fake profiles or impersonate someone else. 

Respect others.

Respect people's time and attention by asking well-thought-out questions and sharing what you have learned so far in your experimentation or prior research. Respect people as individuals by keeping your tone positive and your comments constructive. Remember that behind each comment there is a real person. Treat others the way that you would like to be treated. Before giving feedback, ask yourself if you would appreciate to receive it. Criticize ideas with the purpose of improvement; do not criticize the people behind it. Always remember to treat others with respect, regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, political or religious preference, nation or region, gender, physical or medical condition.

Flag inappropriate content for review.

Do not create or submit explicit content (i.e. restricted, pornography, violence, hate speech, threats, etc.). If you recognize any violation of these guidelines, please notify our Community Managers by choosing "Report Illegal Content" from the message's “Options” menu. Please let us know why you feel the content is inappropriate. Our team will evaluate all flagged content or inappropriate behavior and corrective action will be taken. We count on your collaboration to keep our community at its best!

Remember, this is user-generated content.

You will find plenty of good advice here, but remember that your situation, configuration, or implementation may vary from that of the individual sharing a solution. Some advice you find here may even be wrong. Apply the same good judgment here that you would apply to information anywhere on the Internet.

Other considerations.

By using this community, you agree to follow these rules as well as the full Terms of Services for Bosch Rexroth Communities. We thank you, and your fellow community members.