Every story below started with an unplanned stop, a recurring fault, or a maintenance team flying blind. Here’s what happened next.
Having a spare in stores doesn’t mean you can restart the machine. That’s harder to accept than it sounds. Most sites that run ELAU PacDrive lines have something on the…
This may sound complacent, but your ELAU controller is rarely the thing that gets attacked but the line stops anyway. That’s the pattern behind the most expensive industrial cyber incidents…
You will not diagnose an ELAU PacDrive fault faster by reading the error code faster. The fault on the screen is usually the last thing that happened, not the first.…
“Even our machine builders were unable to help. The answer was in the message logger.” Summary The Fault “Even our machine builders were unable to help.” HMI and C200 Controller…
“I’m getting a following error on my production belts.” HMI said generic fault. PacDriveAssist said which drive, which motor, and why. Summary The Fault “I’m getting a following error on…
“The machine stops every 10 cycles but I don’t understand why.” Summary The Fault “The machine stops every 10 cycles but I don’t understand why.” What Had Been Done Engineers…
This may feel like a cop-out, but the honest answer is there isn’t one. This is because the true cost of unplanned ELAU PacDrive downtime can vary significantly depending on the site, its size and production…
Walk onto almost any packaging line running cereal into boxes, soft drinks into bottles, or blister packs of medicine into cartons, and there’s a decent chance the brain of that…
We’re all familiar with preventive maintenance whether we know it or not. For example, this is what we’re doing when we have our cars or boilers serviced. Parts are then…
