No business wants to suffer loss of productivity from a faulty motor, especially if it means several days downtime.
Follow these simple practices to help improve your servo motor uptime & avoid any nightmare scenarios from damaged or faulty automation equipment.
Improve your servo motor up-time
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Keep within the recommended capacity for your machine
Going over the recommended capacity for your servo is a surefire way to cause overheating, strain on your components & potential damage to your whole machine. Never overload your motor and you will always enjoy servo motor up-time.
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Keep heat sinks & air intakes clean & clear
If your machine equipment & servo motors are kept clean you should always have a reliable, fully working machine. To increase your servo’s up-time check the internal, external, chiller & circulation fans. Be sure that your fans & filters have clear airflow & are not clogged with any dust or debris.
Heat sinks that become clogged are a common failure point. Since their job is to prevent overheating it is essential that you make regular checks to maintain up-time.
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Replace components before they fail
Preventative maintenance is possibly method to maintain servo motor up-time. If you make repairs & fixes before something becomes a problem it generally keeps things running smoothly in the long-run.
Contact your local repair company to schedule a health check of your servo & other automation machines. Finding areas that need repairing or replacing early is the key to maintaining quality up-time.
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Keep backup components
Do you have a plan for when your equipment fails? Keep back up components (especially those that fail more often) and your servo motor up-time will be back on track soon after something fails.
Electric Enterprise provide repairs for all major servo motor brands, for full details visit our Servo Motor Repair page, or call: (800) 243-6944