One of the special features of Indramat servomotors is the “Personality Module,” known in Europe as a programming module. The Personality Module is programmed with the settings that ensure compatibility between the servo amplifier and the motor. These Personality Modules make configuration easy. When you replace an Indramat drive, you can just pull the Personality… Read more »
Indramat made three basic types of control: CLM CLC PPC Each of these controls comes in a variety of flavors. When you need a replacement or repair, you’ll need to know the details of your control. How can you tell which one you’ve got? Here are some questions that will help you identify the control… Read more »
You can ignore the floor of the factory — not the factory floor, of course, but the actual floor of the rooms — for quite a while. Maybe forever. Then the day finally comes when the gunk and clutter builds up to the point where someone trips and falls or something catches fire or it’s… Read more »
If you have IndraDrive MI units you should be daisy chaining your drives together to save money by cutting wiring costs, reducing cabinet space to a minimum, and speeding up installation and cable maintenance for your servo motors and drives. If you’re not daisy chaining your equipment and it’s capable of it, you’re wasting money…. Read more »
Not that well, frankly. America’s industrial sector is not as badly off as the rest of the world’s, but there’s reason to believe that the global industrial sector’s problems are affecting America. Growth in manufacturing in the U.S. has been contracting for three months, with last month signalling the fastest rate of loss so far…. Read more »
