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Practical articles on servo motors, drives, repair, replacement, maintenance, sourcing and industrial automation.
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When we launched the free Servo Health Check, the most common question we got back wasn’t “does it work” — it was “how does it work.” Fair question. A maintenance decision tool is only useful if you can
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“How many hours before this servo motor needs attention?” is a fair question, and the honest answer only exists if it comes from the manufacturer’s own manual — not from a guess based on how the motor sounds
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Allen-Bradley’s SLC 500 platform is one of the most widely deployed PLC families ever built — and one of the largest installed bases still running today despite being long discontinued. If your line depends on a 1747-series processor,
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If you run Yaskawa SGDM or SGDH servopacks, you have probably already noticed that Yaskawa’s own documentation no longer treats this generation as current. That is not a rumor — it is a documented, phased wind-down, and it
Read MoreWhen an automation part on a running machine is discontinued, the machine does not stop needing that part. It stops being able to order it from the manufacturer. The practical question for a maintenance team is no longer
Read MoreEvery obsolete part starts the same way: it fails, and the maintenance team discovers that the OEM stopped making it years ago. What looked like a straightforward spare-part order becomes a decision with three very different paths —
Read MoreA servo motor rarely fails without warning. The trouble is that its warnings compete with everything else on a running line — the alarm that has always been there, the motor that has always run warm, the noises
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What is the Servo Health Check? The Servo Health Check is a free Beta tool from Star Automations that compares your servo motor or drive’s operating usage against verified OEM lifecycle reference data, and returns a simple Green,
Read MorePrecision Repair for Allen-Bradley Servo Motors – Get Your Production Back on Track When your automation system stops due to a servo motor fault, it doesn’t just delay production—it hits revenue, labor, and delivery schedules. That’s why manufacturers
Read MoreRestore Performance: Allen-Bradley Servo Motor Service for Production-Critical Systems Every second of downtime costs money. If your Allen-Bradley servo motor fails, it can bring an entire machine or production line to a halt. But before you rush to
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