Protect Your Drive Repair Investment!
Save yourself a headache AND unnecessary drive repair expenses by checking your equipment BEFORE reinstalling a freshly repaired unit.
Top 4 Reasons for VFD Failure and How to Prevent Them
Are you getting over voltage faults from your VFD? Erratic operation? Hearing strange noises? VFD failure? Chances are you may need to change your use and maintenance routines for your VFD and probably other equipment too. As a rule, VFDs are reliable as hell. But like most things, they have their critical […]
3 Key Tips to Extend the Life of Your Printed Circuit Boards
As you probably know by now, printed circuit boards don’t last forever. Not even the very expensive ones inside your industrial equipment. But did you know that you can extend the life of your circuit boards? And, potentially put off the need for circuit board repairs a little longer? The […]
6 Simple Tips for Encoder Repair and Troubleshooting
Encoder tips to diagnose problems… BEFORE sending out for encoder repair service. If motion control is important to your production, then your encoder is one of the keys to your success. Encoders are exposed to shock, contaminants/oil, excess vibration, moisture, and high temperatures that regularly put their toughness to the test.
Replace or Repair Damaged Industrial Electronics – The Hard Facts
Your production line went down due to electronic equipment failure and now you have to decide fast – replace or repair? Every minute down is killing your bottom line. When to hold and when to fold can be a gut decision (and often is) but there are some hard facts […]
How to Eliminate Unplanned Downtime In Your Plant
Are you suffering from an expensive case of downtime – the unplanned kind? Unplanned downtime in manufacturing is a budget-killer like no other. Some estimates put the average cost at $7,900 per MINUTE and its rising! It’s frustrating to watch production come to a stop and deliveries go unmet. Finger-pointing […]
Manufacturing Trends That Will Affect You in 2016
Manufacturing will never be the same again, but mostly in good ways! That’s the takeaway from all of our research. To save you time, we sifted through scores of tech and manufacturing trends articles** and surveyed our staff to identify key trends and business outlooks that we think will affect you – manufacturing, […]
Easy Tips to Decode Your Industrial Electronic Repair Report
Is your repair report baffling you? Wondering what in the heck those techs did? Many purchasers of industrial electronic repairs are very knowledgeable about electronics, but more than a few are not. And just for the record, we agree, repair reports can sometimes be mysterious and confusing. Fear not! Knowledge […]
6 Top Tips to Extend the Life of Your Power Supply
Power supplies – they are ever present for most of us, both at work and at home. They come in all sizes and levels of quality and for myriad purposes. Even so, they have some things in common – their universal dislike of moisture, heat, and dirt – which I like […]
Tips on Saving Money in Your Plant
I am always interested in understanding where our customers are coming from. Despite some improvement in the economy, we still hear a lot of concern about needing to “produce more while spending less”. Today’s tips are for helping you “do more with less” and saving money in your plant. No […]