Small but mighty, servo drives are critical players on the industrial playing field. These drives are common in CNC machining, factory automation, and robotics . The Teknic SST-1500-561 servo drive is a frequent flyer – meaning there are a lot of them out there working hard (see photo)

Are you getting error codes? Drive won’t enable? Servo motor won’t move? Not getting the proper voltages to your servo motor? The problem could be inside your servo drive! Servo drives can and DO go rogue! But there are signs to look for to see if your servo drive might need repairs! S

WON’T POWER UP 🙁 Ugh! Have you had this happen to your formerly reliable display equipment? It’s a frustrating, but not uncommon problem. From metalworkers to fabricators to scientists – work can come to a sudden stop when your display unit won’t power up. Why Won’t Your Display Unit Powe

Small yes, but oh so important! That’s your servo controller! What are your options if your servo controller stops functioning during machine operation? Are your servo controllers repairable?  Is replacement the answer?  It all depends! REAL LIFE SITUATION ON THE PLANT FLOOR: Our custo

Have you ever noticed that the terms servo controller, servo drive, and servo amplifier are often used interchangeably?  This can be confusing! Here is the explanation in very basic terms: Technically, the Servo Drive (also called a Servo Amplifier) provides power to the Servo Motor.

“We are thisclose to a potential shutdown if we don’t get this mission-critical circuit board repaired immediately!” said the “Ginormous Oil” Company plant manager, in a panicy phone call to our customer service rep. Their Gulf of Mexico oil refinery was in danger of experiencing a shu

Have you ever had a “Machine Down” crisis in your plant? Most likely you have, just like our customer, an East Coast U.S.-based beauty supplies manufacturer just did.   With the holiday season upon them, they needed to be able to fulfill orders ON TIME. Here’s the short story: A few da

Ok, that’s sort of a trick question. Whenever a garage door won’t open, whoever is stuck inside, or out, considers it a crisis, right? But what if NASA can’t open a 200 foot bay door for a scheduled launch? Now that’s a crisis! While NASA may be full of electronics technicians, enginee

Maybe your production came to an abrupt halt, or you are getting all kinds of beeping and error codes from your industrial electronics.  Could your industrial logic circuit board be the culprit? These are potentially expensive problems to have when it means production is affected. You

REAL LIFE SITUATIONS FROM THE PLANT FLOOR:   Is your industrial touchscreen control not powering up? Display doesn’t work? Or both? This sounds like really bad news, with an even worse repair prognosis. Or does it? Did our customer need to replace their damaged touchscreen control? Let’s f

REAL LIFE ELECTRONIC REPAIR SOLUTIONS FROM THE PLANT FLOOR:  As a plant manager or owner, a number of situations come to mind as being “nightmarish”. One of them would probably include “flood” and “water damaged electronics”. In this case, rain poured into a roof vent accidentally left

We get it! Having to figure out how and where to get your damaged industrial electronic repairs can be a “PITA”! That’s why we focused like a laser beam on making it as easy as possible with our new and improved website AND with our super-helpful customer service appr

The show must go on! Power surges, lightning strikes, and just sheer component aging are all problems our broadcaster customers deal with often – especially with their damaged power supplies. Keeping good backups around is key to making sure the show DOES go on! Good surge protection c

“I need this machine in the worst way! We have been told there is power coming in but none going out. We need this repaired and returned ASAP!” That was the desperate call from our sheet metal fabricator customer. The machine in question had a damaged Gettys servo controller 11-1011-02

In our experience, Mitsubishi industrial electronic products are pretty great products. Even older, legacy Mitsubishi products are usually WELL worth getting Mitsubishi repairs. Many of our ACS customers have legacy Mitsubishi products in their plants and shops. Lately, we’ve had lots

“Stop the Presses!” is only a GOOD thing when there is exciting breaking news. It’s all bad news when the press comes to a stop because it is BROKEN. This Heidelberg Press Electronic Drive went bad leaving our East Coast fine printing press customer in the lurch and needing Heide

Real Life Repair Solutions from the Plant Floor – Festo PLC Needs Repairs NOW! In real life things break, especially when you are in a hurry, right? For our U.S.-based supplement manufacturer customer having a PLC go down was not good for filling orders on time. In their words, “This

REAL LIFE REPAIR SOLUTIONS FROM THE PLANT FLOOR:  Gettys DC Drive Controller Quits Working The SAD part of the story: “the axis was real jerky and continued to get worse until it QUIT”. Ouch! Quitting on the job is never good, human or machine. So, what’s up with this nice looking Gett

REAL LIFE REPAIR SOLUTIONS : Komori Touchscreen went blank…and also, your question answered. Here’s one question we get asked a lot… “To send in an item for repair, do we need to know what the problem is with the unit?” The short answer? No! Relax, this is ok. We’ve

Ever been told that your operator control panel is unrepairable?  Or that you would need to upgrade to continue production? Yep, I thought so. I know, we’ve mentioned this situation before but it happens to our customers so often it’s worth repeating. Please don’t throw in the towel on