I’ll start with a bit of history here as I’ve been in the servo motor repair industry for over 25 years. Back then we saw pretty basic servo motors, many were resolver fed, a lot with incremental encoders and some more complex Yaskawa motors with absolute encoders. We had to reverse engineer the systems to be able to carry out …

Fletcher Moorland is a ‘green flagged’ Avetta member company (Contractor ID 38152). Our services include AC, DC & Ex Electric motor repairs, Vibrator motor repair, Pump repair, Gearbox repair, Fan repair, Mechanical parts repair and repairs to industrial electronic and automation equipment such as VSDs, HMIs, Control Panels and PSUs. Our Central UK workshops are always open and manned 24 hours a …

In my role as a business owner in the repair and refurbishment industry I get asked many technical and non-technical questions on a daily basis. Just last week I was asked by a guy in a maintenance role “Just why do you replace all those capacitors?” We were discussing a repair that we had recently carried out for him on a …

I’m pretty sure we all want to keep things simple in life, I for one certainly do. Just imagine now that you’re responsible for keeping track of all electrical, electronic and mechanical repairs sent out from your processing or production facility. I’m guessing you will have parts at numerous suppliers and keeping track of all of them can be difficult; …

Sick sensor intelligence, produces safety laser scanners for area or access protection. These laser scanners operate as ‘light radar’ devices and measure distances using the time-of-flight principle. As with all electronic devices they do, from time-to-time require repair or servicing. Fletcher Moorland can offer a reliable repair service for these devices, from a power supply repair to the replacement of …

Well why not take a look? We always encourage our customers and potential customers to come and take a look around our facility. What’s amazing are the comments we hear afterwards. “Your place is like the Tardis”, “I never know you did……”, ” I never expected you to do so much”, “You’ll be getting all our repairs from now on”, …

If a picture is worth a 1000 words, what’s a video worth? Well we think a 1000 pictures actually and all of them moving showing exactly what’s going on; and that’s why we are launching SERVICEview today. A totally new dimension to our electro-mechanical and automation repair services. From today, we will be videoing the diagnostic and testing elements of our refurbishment processes. …

I’m often asked by customers and prospects alike “What do you actually do when repairing automation equipment?” Well it’s a topic I’m passionate about and have built my career around repairing and refurbishing electro-mechanical and automation equipment. If we had the time and several beers I could go on for hours about what the processes and techniques we use to repair. …

It was during 1946 that Electrical Rewinds and Supplies started life as a business, set-up by Sam Fletcher and his then business partner to support the local pottery, mining and manufacturing industries. Now in 2016 we celebrate 70 years in business, still owned and managed by the founding Fletcher family with Matt Fletcher, the third generation, heading the business. Just …

This year we celebrate 70 years in business. It was in 1946 that Sam W. Fletcher set-up Electrical Rewinds and Supplies to service the local industry around Stoke on Trent. The business grew and developed into Fletcher Bickerton Ltd. and quickly gained a reputation for quality in repairing rotating machines. In the early 1980s Fletcher Bickerton Ltd. bought a small …