Scott Hibbard has been associated with the industrial motion control industry for 44 years. 41 of those years have been with Bosch Rexroth, including the former Indramat Division of the Rexroth Corporation, later acquired by Robert Bosch. Scott played a key role in the pioneering introduction of the first practical industrial brushless AC servo drives and multi-processing CNCs used in high production manufacturing, as well as moving printing and packaging automation technology from mechanical systems to precision electronic motion control. After many years managing Rexroth’s Industrial Applications Development in North & South America, as well as management of the facility in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Scott moved to leading Bosch Rexroth’s North American Innovation Group. Among many projects, Scott is currently active in the development of the Industrial Internet of Things (Industry 4.0) including development of use-cases and standards enabling meaningful interchange of information across the manufacturing environment & data analytics for manufacturing use cases. The teams work out of the Chicago Connectory, an innovation space managed by Bosch & 1871dedicated to IoT in downtown Chicago.
Scott serves on the board of directors for Sercos North America, the trade association that stewards the ongoing development and adoption of Sercos, an international real time interface standard. Scott is also chair of the Association for Manufacturing Technology’s Technical Issues Committee, a member of the MTConnect Board of Trustees, and serves on the Board of Directors for German American Events, LLC, which manages the Chicago & Milwaukee Christkindlmarkets.
Scott is the author of numerous technical articles and papers on AC servo, digital drive control, and open control system technologies, as well as IIoT & energy efficiency in factory automation.
