When your servo motor or servo drive quits working, you have some options. You can try to troubleshoot it and fix it on the machine, you can remove it and send it back to the factory for fixing, you can send it to a third party repair shop, or you can replace it. Which is… Read more »
The Indramat MKD series of servomotors is a basic workhorse of a motor from Rexroth. Click the link to see all the (many, many) different codes in this series. Why so many? First, it’s available in five different rotor diameters: 025 041 071 090 112 Next, it has several other options. The series comes with… Read more »
Heat failure is one of the biggest problems for motion control technology, especially as we move into warmer temperatures. What causes heat failure? Well, obviously, heat. Ambient temperatures get higher in spring and summer, of course, but we don’t always notice it. If it’s a gradual increase, we humans can gradually adjust. Servomotors and drives… Read more »
IndraWorks is a software program for Rexroth servo drives that contains everything you need for setting up and starting modern drives, from engineering to implementation, including integration of drives with third-party applications. If your HMI or PLC are having issues, you might need access to IndraWorks to resolve the issue, depending on the age of… Read more »
Rexroth servo motors can be used in really creative ways to get jobs done. If you’ve made some creative changes in your industrial motion control system, though, it could mean that the axis of rotation on your Rexroth servo motor isn’t lined up with the center of mass. As your manufacturing processes change slightly over… Read more »
We were supposed to have flying cars by now, but the market isn’t there. We were supposed to have personal hovercrafts, but they don’t look as cool as anticipated. And driverless cars work for Google… except when people run into them. Rexroth has driverless automatic trucks carrying freight right now, though. Terex Port Solutions is… Read more »
We know, love, and in fact specialize in legacy electronic components (specifically, Indramat motion control). We’ve spoken out against unneeded upgrades. We applauded the New Belgium brewery for judiciously upgrading and keeping legacy components in service when that made sense. We speak out for the opposite of planned obsolescence and for a conservation mindset. There’s… Read more »
Rexroth servomotors are often used in things like printing presses and packaging tools. One application you might not know of is in timbering tools. The E-Clips® carrier, featured in a recent issue of Timberline Magazine, uses Rexroth drive technology to help the timber industry cut down trees and stack them for processing. You can watch the… Read more »
The MSK line of servomotors is a compact but powerful line of servomotors that come with a set of features useful for applications that require both power and accuracy. MSK servomotors have a wide range of power options that make it a highly versatile series of motors. The MSK series also comes in a wide… Read more »
Rexroth servomotors and servo drives have long been one of the go-tos for printing press machinery. Servos are great at meeting the needs of printing presses because they don’t lose their position and run practically forever without problems. Most servos we service were installed decades ago and are just having their first problems now. We’ve… Read more »
