We are trying to control the temperature of our plastic injection mold. We have struggled with contamination and corrosion using water. We have decided to use a thermal oil.
The problem is that there seem to be no companies that offer mold temp control units capable of running oil. When I say...
My company has been forced to pay a penalty because our reactive load on the utility is too high. I'm not sure what exactly this all means. I understand what reactance is but I don't understand where it is coming from. The rep from the utility said it was coming from our inductive motors...
Has anyone used a servo drive programming software package that they really liked or was especially easy to use?
I experienced PacSci's 800Tools for a PC833 drive. Hated it!! Perhaps it is a drive that is too basic to easily do what we want it to do. We used the drive in "Predfined...
What is it?
I know I can monitor it, but what can I do about it?
What do you hear about power quality in your area?
I am in the Northeast and all I hear is negative. We're having a funny glitch thing happening with our PLCs. The boss told me to investigate a UPS for each of the PLCs. With...
Hello to all. This is my first post.
I am building a machine tool for a production line we have here in our plant. It is a saw that plunges to cut a slot in a shaft. The saw is mounted vertically on a ballscrew slide and is controlled by a servo motor. The motor has an optional...
