The milling machine before the retrofit Our technical service engineers were asked to retrofit a spindle inverter on an #Okuma horizontal CNC milling machine at a large engineering company. The machine dates from the 1980s and we received the enquiry as a spindle motor repair – but with no fault found, the machine's inverter was diagnosed to be the issue. The inverter had undergone several repair attempts prior to our involvement, so a retrofit was decided. After reverse eng

Callum, an apprentice engineer at Westin Drives. What are the needs of apprentices in your business? The Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades would like to know It is formulating a programme that will train people how to fix machines, instead of writing reports about a job, with few to no practical elements. The AEMT needs our help to gather data and take it to the next step. We all have our thoughts on the quality of training, and there's a chance to help here wi

This failed gear from a manufacturer in the sugar industry was sent to us to be prepared for investigation by an independent laboratory. Our engineers carefully cut out a section that included chipped teeth to allow the material properties and quality of the case-hardening to be analysed. Westin Drives provides a comprehensive gearbox service in conjunction with our sister company, Westin Engineering . We are able to diagnose, repair and refurbish all types of gearboxes found

A large pharmaceutical manufacturer asked us to repair the geared motor on this mobile pump. Besides finding the best fix, our engineers also view the repair process as a chance to improve the performance of a unit. In this case, the efficiency of the pump was increased to premium level IE3 by fitting a replacement motor from WEG and a Radicon gearbox. The original inverter was found a new position on top of the motor by water jet cutting and fitting a spacer, designed by our