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The Importance of Happy Workers

Most of our clients are manufacturers, printers, and other highly productive companies. They’re focused on efficiency and safety, hitting their metrics with little downtime, and we’re proud to be a part of that. But recent research suggests that there’s one more metric hardworking companies should be paying attention to: happy workers. Call it engagement Colette… Read more »

Indramat Error F229

Like many other Indramat fault codes, Indramat error F229 has several possible causes, and different ways to clear the error. If you have your Indramat manual handy, you can work through the steps and try to troubleshoot it on your own. Of course, the fastest way to clear Indramat faults and errors is by calling… Read more »

Indramat Brake Errors: F268 and F269

Indramat, formerly a groundbreaking motion control systems company and now part of Bosch Rexroth, is a manufacturer of industrial motion control and automation equipment, including servo drives and controls. A “brake error” in an Indramat drive typically refers to a fault or error condition related to the brake system within the drive. The brake system… Read more »

Robot Wars…and Field Marking

You can probably get a lively conversation going on the subject of robot nurses. There are many people who believe that the kindness of human nurses is a bona fide part of their job description. Robot teachers, too, can get a strong response from people who see the human connections between teachers and students as… Read more »

Where Do You Store Your Indramat Manual?

Quick — where is your Indramat manual? If you know the exact location of your troubleshooting guide for your servo motor or your servo drive, you belong at the head of the class. Indramat manuals tend to escape their owners over time, or at the very least end up forgotten in the bottom of a… Read more »

Robot Pharmacists?

We’ve seen robot butchers, robot waiters, robot rabbis, and more. Should we now expect robot pharmacists? The good Robots can count out pills and pack them into bottles. This is not highly creative work requiring human insight. Walgreen’s now sees 40-50% of their prescriptions packed by machines. Walgreen’s, as well as CVS, has also seen… Read more »

Automation — Who Needs It?

A new study finds that 45.6% of warehouse and logistics leaders think automation is necessary. 36.1% are currently using automation and 36.9% are not. The rest are thinking about it. To recap, the respondents were fairly evenly divided into thirds saying yes, no, and maybe. No outpaces yes slightly and maybe is not quite a… Read more »

Indramat Repair: Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure was a children’s book series that allowed the reader to make decisions that would shape the outcome of the story. Indramat troubleshooting manuals are far from a Choose Your Own Adventure book. They clearly explain the possible causes and remedial actions for Indramat error codes. However, you do have an important… Read more »

Amazon Says Robots Create Jobs

The fear of robots taking over human jobs is real, and possibly justified. But Amazon has just announced that this is not true in their warehouses. “Our experience has been these new technologies actually create jobs, they allow us to grow and expand,” a spokesperson told the BBC. “And we’ve seen multiple examples of this… Read more »

Your Guide to Indramat Drive Fault Codes

Indramat motion control systems bring a lot to the table: they’re efficient, versatile, and they’re reliable. Few industrial motion control products can match Indramat’s durability and longevity. Of course, if your machinery never breaks, you won’t know how to fix it. This is why Indramat drive fault codes send factory floors into a state of… Read more »