You’ll see assurances from some servo repair shops that increased uptime between error codes is their goal. Sometimes they specify “increased mean uptime.” Is that your goal? Increased mean uptime between error codes? This means they anticipate that your servomotor will fail again soon and they’re just hoping to extend the time between failures. Not… Read more »
Frank Pasquale, author of New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI, which has been excerpted in The Boston Globe, has proposed four new laws of robotics. These are new laws because the original Three Laws of Robotics were devised by Isaac Asimov: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or,… Read more »
Everything seems to be going well on the production floor. It’s all running smoothly and you haven’t had any problems lately. There’s been a pesky weird noise coming from one of your cabinets but otherwise all is well. You’re not too worried about the weird noise because industrial equipment just makes weird noises, right? You’re… Read more »
You may know that the servomotor was initially created for use in ships. It makes sense, then, that servomotors should also be essential for ships of the air — airplanes. Airplane manufacture Servos are used in manufacturing airplanes, for one thing. Airplane wings are created with special arrays of servomotors — hundreds of servos and… Read more »
Sure, there are industrial knitting machines, but can a robot design a knitting pattern? Janell Shane of AI Weirdness gave it a shot. In a project named Operation Hilarious Knitting Disaster, she teamed up with knitters on the knitting forum Ravelry to feed her network 5,228 knitting patterns, and then instructed SkyKnit to generate knitting patterns…. Read more »
Indradrive error codes include a group that start with the phrase, “Error when checking.” For example, F3130 Error when checking input signals F3131 Error when checking acknowledgment signal F3132 Error when checking diagnostic output signal F3133 Error when checking interrupting circuits In general, these are problems with the safety system. For example, if you don’t… Read more »
Rexroth error codes tell you that your Rexroth electric motion control component has a problem of some kind. Chances are good that it will stop working, and in fact that’s probably why you went and looked at it and saw the error code in the first place. Rexroth warnings are something different. There are fatal… Read more »
President Biden is determined to strengthen U.S. manufacturing. “I don’t buy for one second that the vitality of American manufacturing is a thing of the past,” he said in remarks before the signing of his Executive Order on Strengthening American Manufacturing. “American manufacturing was the arsenal of democracy in World War II, and it must… Read more »
Robots can’t get sick; that’s one reason automation has intensified so much over the past year. But can robots, work surfaces, and other machinery spread the virus? The virus can survive on metal Researchers have found that the COVID-19 virus can remain viable on stainless steel surfaces for three days. Factories must therefore make sure… Read more »
Of course you will find servos on factory floors and in manufacturing facilities in general. But you might not have thought about these five very common applications of servomotors. Performing arts and broadcasting Got a camera? If it’s a professional camera for movies or broadcasting, there’s probably a servo in play. Smaller cameras often use… Read more »
