Posts Categorized: Rexroth Service

Rexroth Error Code F219

Error Code F219 is deceptively simple: your motor, it’s telling you, is overheating. When it reaches too high a temperature, it will stop. Just restarting it won’t fix the problem. You have to actually fix the problem before you reset and restart. So why is your motor overheating? If your Rexroth legacy servo motor has… Read more »

The Company-Wide Repair Agreement

It seems smart at the time. Your company enters into a company-wide repair agreement (let’s call it CWRA) with a vendor that works with automation. All automation, to hear them tell it, but then your legacy Rexroth machinery needs some support. The big automation company can’t repair the legacy components. They can’t get OEM parts,… Read more »

Is Power Quality Your Problem?

Indramat motion control is very good — we meet a lot of servos which have been in service for 30 years before they have a problem. But we also see cases in which Indramat components fail — or seem to fail — repeatedly. Often the problem is “dirty” power. We’ve heard of cases in which… Read more »

Emergency Repair for Indramat or Rexroth Equipment

The world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, has got some new competition, the Cheetah robot made by Boston Dynamics. The Cheetah Robot is now the fastest legged land robot in the world at over 29 mph, smashing the previous record set in 1989 by MIT’s 13.1 mph record. Cheetah is a tethered robot, meaning that it’s… Read more »

Rexroth Joins an Adventure

Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ polar expedition, The Coldest Journey, will be the first attempt to cross the Antarctic during winter. Previous attempts have made it no further than 60 miles, but this expedition plans to cover 2,000 miles over a period of six months, mostly in the dark and at temperatures nearing 200 degrees below zero…. Read more »

Life Diagnosis Function

Mitsubishi’s new MR-J4 series sounds pretty smart. Its list of abilities provides a reminder that servo motors were one of the earliest examples of artificial intelligence, long before there was any real need for a Turing test. But the best item on the list, in my opinion, is probably not the one that dazzles most… Read more »

Engineers on Friday Afternoon

<iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/dNkZQ_LKrKc?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> In school, we learned that the average life span of a theory was 17 minutes, except on Friday afternoons. The reason a theory would last longer on a Friday afternoon is that people were thinking ahead to Friday night, when they might head down to the local watering hole… Read more »

Why You Need a Pilot to Handle Your Indramat Issues

Rexroth has been making the best motion control solutions available for about three decades now, and many of their Indramat motors and drives from the 1970s are still around and in use. One of the reasons for this is quality control. And one of the manifestations of that quality control is the fact that Rexroth… Read more »