Repairing & Aligning An Encoder We’ll start with a bit of history here as we’ve been in the servo motor repair industry for over 25 years. Back then we saw pretty basic servo motors, many were resolver fed, a lot with incremental encoders and some more complex Yaskawa motors with absolute encoders. We had to reverse engineer the systems to …
Fletcher Moorland is a ‘green flagged’ Avetta member company (Contractor ID 38152). Our services include AC, DC & Ex Electric motor repairs, Vibrator motor repair, Pump repair, Gearbox repair, Fan repair, Mechanical parts repair and repairs to industrial electronic and automation equipment such as VSDs, HMIs, Control Panels and PSUs. Our Central UK workshops are always open and manned 24 hours a …
In my role as a business owner in the repair and refurbishment industry I get asked many technical and non-technical questions on a daily basis. Just last week I was asked by a guy in a maintenance role “Just why do you replace all those capacitors?” We were discussing a repair that we had recently carried out for him on a …
I’m pretty sure we all want to keep things simple in life, I for one certainly do. Just imagine now that you’re responsible for keeping track of all electrical, electronic and mechanical repairs sent out from your processing or production facility. I’m guessing you will have parts at numerous suppliers and keeping track of all of them can be difficult; …
5 Sure-fire signs your HMI or Control Panel is about to fail! HMIs and visual control panels are common on modern-day factory equipment, they are the interface between the machine and the operator. (hence HumanMachine Interface – HMI). But did you know they are constantly giving us feedback about their own health status? Well if you know the subtle signs …
Man V Machine Motor Rewinds It seems on a few of Matts LinkedIn posts that he inadvertently stoked the fires of the repair v replace argument for electric motors. In this post he aims to show his respect for the skilled craftsmen who, day-in day-out, rewind motors. “Now just to show and I guess a few of you cannot un-see …
SAFETY LASER SCANNER REPAIR & REFURBISHMENT Sick sensor intelligence, produces safety laser scanners for area or access protection. These laser scanners operate as ‘light radar’ devices and measure distances using the time-of-flight principle. As with all electronic devices they do, from time-to-time require repair or servicing. Fletcher Moorland can offer a reliable repair service for these devices, from a power …
Well why not take a look? We always encourage our customers and potential customers to come and take a look around our facility. What’s amazing are the comments we hear afterwards. “Your place is like the Tardis”, “I never know you did……”, ” I never expected you to do so much”, “You’ll be getting all our repairs from now on”, …
If a picture is worth a 1000 words, what’s a video worth? Well we think a 1000 pictures actually and all of them moving showing exactly what’s going on; and that’s why we are launching SERVICEview today. A totally new dimension to our electro-mechanical and automation repair services. From today, we will be videoing the diagnostic and testing elements of our refurbishment processes. …
How is A SERVO MOTOR REFURBISHED We’ve been asked by customers so many times “how do you refurbish servo motors?” Well here’s a video showing a pretty common (Siemens 1FT6044 type) servo motor being refurbished. It goes to show something we at Fletcher Moorland have been thorough on for years, that you need electrical, mechanical and electronic skills to correctly and …
I’m often asked by customers and prospects alike “What do you actually do when repairing automation equipment?” Well it’s a topic I’m passionate about and have built my career around repairing and refurbishing electro-mechanical and automation equipment. If we had the time and several beers I could go on for hours about what the processes and techniques we use to …
A view on repairing electronic control systems Sometimes it takes something drastic to happen to change your mindset on a process or decision. Let’s take a look at repairing electronic control systems or replacing with new. How repairs are viewed is the first question? are they or can they ever be as good as new? Surveying a number of contacts I found that …