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...

It was during 1946 that Electrical Rewinds and Supplies started life as a business, set-up by Sam Fletcher and his then business partner to support the local pottery, mining and manufacturing industries. Now in 2016 we celebrate 70 years in business, still owned and managed by the founding Fletcher family with Matt Fletcher, the third generation, heading the business. Just...

Converting CRT Monitors to LCD is a good idea! In Matts’ 30 year career in industrial automation repair, he’s seen countless HMIs or monitors pass through the workshop for repair. Most of those were the CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) type. CRTs were the first technology to allow users to interact with machines carrying out manufacturing functions. Whilst repairs to CRT...

Fast and reliable repairs to Elau PacDrives and Elau/Schneider servo motors from a leading UK repair company. Fletcher Moorland offers a true 24 hours, 7 days a week repair service for the Elau controllers C*00 series, the MC-4 Pacdrives and the SH & SM series servo motors. We can fully test all units in the drive system to guarantee repair....

Fanuc Spindle Motor Update We had a number of comments on LinkedIn  asking questions about the Fanuc Spindle motor we had in for urgent repair over the weekend and I wanted to answer all the questions received.The motor part number is A06B-1455-B200 It is a 4500 rpm main spindle motor for a CNC machine. Year of manufacture was 2007 and...

The picture at the top of this post is a repaired ABB electric motor just about to leave our UK workshop. It’s not a big motor and there’ll be many people saying things like ‘it’s not worth repairing’,  ‘you’ll be better off buying new’, ‘A repair isn’t as good as a new motor’ and “you’ll lose efficiency if you repair it’. Well...

This year we celebrate 70 years in business. It was in 1946 that Sam W. Fletcher set-up Electrical Rewinds and Supplies to service the local industry around Stoke on Trent. The business grew and developed into Fletcher Bickerton Ltd. and quickly gained a reputation for quality in repairing rotating machines. In the early 1980s Fletcher Bickerton Ltd. bought a small...

Using the plot of IR against time can show some interesting information in regard to the condition of the insulation system. This plot is from a 73Hp DC armature with brittle insulation....

From the smallest precision servo motors used in positioning and robotic applications, to motors such as this 700Kw Siemens machine just offloaded today, Fletcher Moorland has a reputation for service and ability in all areas of rotating machine repair and refurbishment. Call 01782 411021 any time, any day, we’re always open....

Refurbishing Zalkin capper motors can save you tens of thousands of pounds £££££££ We repair and refurbish Zalkin capper motors for a dairy customer of ours. They are used to fasten the caps on milk containers and in a recent study on costs we’ve realised that each repair or refurbishment costs around one fifth of the cost of new. We...

I was fortunate enough to introduce my company to some of Norway’s major oil producers recently. I was there to present ‘The benefits of repairing equipment over replacements’. Now what I found was not really surprising, generally when they had a failure on electronic control equipment the usual response was to buy new from the manufacturer. All good really but the...