We wrote a while back about why we don’t think you should buy Indramat on eBay even if it looks like a bargain. We recently had a conversation with an eBay insider that makes us question whether it’s actually a bargain or not. “I don’t make money when I sell,” the eBay veteran assured us…. Read more »
Never mind Mac vs. PC. What does your equipment run? When you decide between Mac and Windows, there are a lot of issues to consider. You have to think about price, of course, but you also need to think about things like vulnerability to viruses, elegance of design, available software, intuitive graphic user interface, and… Read more »
You can buy Indramat drives, servos, and controls on eBay, no question about it. I checked just a minute ago and found more than four thousand choices for a simple search on “Indramat.” The question is not, “Can you buy Indramat on eBay?” The question is, “Should you buy Indramat on eBay?” At first glance… Read more »
Have you ever had one of those special cars? The door doesn’t open when it’s cold, and when it’s hot the trunk won’t stay up when you open it. You have to turn the key just the right way to make it start, and the window needs to be pulled up manually from the top… Read more »
Do you want to speed things up in your plant? Are you sure? Faster is usually possible, but will the equipment take the load? What will the next bottleneck be? We had a client who spent a ton of money to speed up the packing section of his plant to 2x the capacity. He could… Read more »
Indramat DKS Servo Drives are integrated drives, combining power and control in one unit. The official name is “Intelligent Digital Servo Drive.” The drive is connected to the servo motor with a power cable and a feedback cable. Software modules and auxiliary plug-in cards ensure that, if your Indramat DKS drive has to be replaced,… Read more »
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 »
You’ve had your Rexroth legacy drives in storage for 18 months or so, you reinstall them on the line, power them up, and for some reason they don’t work, even though they were working fine when you put them into storage. What’s up? First, check the cables. We can’t count the number of times we’ve… Read more »
We often get calls from engineers who have just opened a sealed cabinet for the very first time and found a mysterious object marked “Indramat.” Often the cabinet has been ignored for years, even decades, and it was only found by following the cable to it from a piece of equipment that has stopped doing… Read more »
One of the trends in industrial motion control right now is a move away from the need for a cabinet. Those air conditioned boxes your servos live in take up space, and space can be costly. Reducing the footprint of your motion control system can be desirable. Doing away with air conditioning can be a… Read more »
