Hi, my name is Andy Lewis with Innovative IDM. A lot of the times when I’m out in the industrial sector, I find a lot of my customers have problems with transients aka surges, sags, or swells. Generally, what occurs here is due to your utility company who provides a power factor correction. Now this...

Be sure to visit our knowledge Center – http://www.innovativeidm.com/Resources.aspx Hi, I’m Lonnie Muse with Innovative IDM. I would like to talk to you a little bit about why you should back up your PLC, but first I’d like to show you something. Something that’s really horrifying. Something that will just kill your day at the...

Click here for the full “Application Overview: Grinder” from Yaskawa. Heavy cutting is done at slow speed. With a constant wheel pressure on the material to be shaped, the pounds/minute of material removed, or work done, varies with the wheel speed. This is the constant torque part of the profile. After the heavy cutting is...

Be sure to visit our knowledge Center – http://www.innovativeidm.com/Resources.aspx Hi, my name is Jack Marsh with Innovative IDM. Today I’d like to talk a little bit about Allen Bradley and maybe perhaps why it’s not always the best solution for your application. Allen Bradley makes fine products, and they are quality products, and they’ve got...

Be sure to visit our knowledge Center – http://www.innovativeidm.com/Resources.aspx Hi, I’m Lonnie Muse with Innovative IDM. I’m going to talk a little bit about AC drives this morning. These things are wonderful. They have come into being, they’ve lasted a long time, and there’s a real great need for them in our plants. But they...

Be sure to visit our knowledge Center – http://www.innovativeidm.com/Resources.aspx Hi, my name is Jack Marsh with Innovative IDM. Today I’d like to talk a little bit about the advantages of linear servo motors. A lot of people have never even heard of a linear motor and don’t know that that is. Well, a linear motor...

Look at this thing!  Built with love by our own Jessi Bratcher in the Dallas UL508A Panel Shop.  Great job, Jessi, keeping it Legendary for our panel customers. Our scale of operation and shop efficiencies mean we many times can build panels in less time and for less cost than our customers can do for...

Be sure to visit our knowledge Center – http://www.innovativeidm.com/Resources.aspx Hi, I’m Adam Ring with Innovative-IDM. You know, when I walk through manufacturing plants, sometimes I’ll come across a control panel where you open it up and look inside and you see this technology that is like 30, 40 years old. So what’s starting to happen...

Hi, Adam Ring with Innovative-IDM. I wanted to take a few minutes and talk about the battle between the screw terminal and the cage clamp. So, why do people choose one or the other? Well, let’s just look at some of the basic facts. On the screw terminal, when you strip a wire and insert it...