Description – Diagnosing Faults in Servo Drive
Systems Using an Infra Red Camera

Fletcher Moorland recently bought a Fluke Infra Red camera for site surveys and to assist in fault diagnosis and repairs throughout the company. Our R&D team always have their minds on how to use anything we have in new and innovative ways to improve our repair abilities. more...

Description – A 40 Year old 350 Hp Slip Ring Motor given a new lease of life.

A Fluorspar mine based in the Derbyshire Peak District had a major failure on its processing plant. A 350HP motor had failed. A direct replacement motor was not available from any motor stockist.more...

Description – What does it take to become a servo motor repair specialist ?

Servo motors are very specialist and high precision motors. Repairs to them require a specialist set of skills in electronic, electrical and mechanical repair along with specialised test facilities more...

Description - Overhaul of a Locomotive Main Generator

The English Electric EE801 and its variants are the main electrical power generators on board diesel/electric rolling stock such as the class 08 and 09 shunters. Our customer, who is a specialist rail company, sent the unit to us for an overhaul. more...

Description – BTH Traction Motor Overhaul

We received this BTH traction motor for overhaul after a locomotive was taken out for an inspection. The motor was received at our works and our traction motor engineers started to dismantle the motor. more...

Description – AEI Traction Motor Repair

This AEI main traction motor was sent to us after it had failed in service. The motor has suffered an overspeed condition and the banding on the armature had lifted. more...

Description – Gearbox speed sensor repair

Occasionally we traction auxiliary repairs that are a bit different to the usual motors, generators, blower fans and smoothing chokes. more...

Description – Control Techniques Unimotor Repair

We have been an official repair centre for Control Techniques servo motors for the past 7 years. One of our customers had a failure with a 142UM Unimotor.more...

Description – Control Techniques Dutymax Repair

This Control Techniques servo motor was sent to us by a customer in the food industry. When we assessed the servo motor we found it to be in a very poor state. more...

Description – Indramat MKD Servo Motor Repair

This Indramat MKD series servo motor was sent to us after it failed on a customer’s site. The fault condition was ‘encoder error’ this is a common fault with this type of servo motor. more...

Description – Allen Bradley 1326AB Series Servo Motor

This servo motor was working in a tissue plant when the failure happened. The motor was removed from the production line and sent to us for repair.more...

Description – Snapped shaft on a Siemens servo motor

Snapped shafts on specialist motors such as servo motors can sometimes mean they are beyond repair. Not when you can fully test the repair they are not.more...

Description – ABB Servo motor repair

This servo motor was sent to us following failure of the shaft on site. We found the shaft extension had been metal-sprayed before and the bonding had failed. more...

Description – An interesting Fanuc Servo motor repair

Fanuc servo motors are by far the most common servo motor we repair. What makes this one any different? Well it was repaired on an emergency basis as the customer has a robot out of action. more...