Automation Solutions News And Updates
Nerd Olympics – Bull Riding
This past Monday night our team competed in event #3 of WETech Alliance's Nerd Olympics Competition. Since we went a little overboard in our training by renting our own mechanical bull for our backyard summer party we figured we had this one in the bag. TURNS OUT that every [...]
Summer Party 2019 and Nerd Olympic Training
Every summer we like to throw our staff a party. It gives everyone the chance to get together outside of work, relax, socialize and forget about the pressures of the jobs and focus on what really makes Brave unique: our ability to have fun! With the Nerd Olympic competition [...]
Nerd Olympics 2019 – Mini Putt
It is finally our favourite time of the year! WETech Alliance's Nerd Olympics has returned for the 4th year! This year's Opening Ceremonies was hosted by our friends from the first ever Nerd Olympics Silver Tee Golf and Virtual Gaming who always know how to show us a good time!We were sad [...]
DC to AC Motor Conversions
WHY CONVERT FROM DC TO AC? Brave has earned a reputation for achieving automation excellence for our ability to deliver main motor upgrades smoothly and successfully in as little as one week of regularly scheduled downtime. Our experienced team has seamlessly swapped obsolete AC motors [...]
Brave attends Modular and Offsite Construction Summit
Brave attends Modular and Offsite Construction Summit Our founder, Brent McPhail along with ours partners from ABB, attended the 2019 Modular and Offsite Construction (MOC) Summit at the world-famous Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in breathtaking Banff, Alberta, Canada this past week. The event was held in conjunction with [...]
The Fast Way To Configure Point IO On Devicenet
While software configurable devices on DeviceNet save you having to set DIP switches manually, you get into trouble when you power on your network and there are multiple devices that need to have their address set for the first time. Each of these devices typically defaults to address 63, [...]
VIDEO PREMIERE at Manufacturing in America 2019
Our team is very excited to be back this year for the Manufacturing in America event hosted by Siemens and Electro-Matic. We will be joined by over 3,200 manufacturing executives, engineers and enthusiasts gathering inside Ford Field in downtown Detroit on March 20th and 21st. We will participating in [...]
Siemens S120 Acyclic Communication Block
When working with Siemens Sinamics S120 drives, it's common to have to home/reference the drives at a known location. The drive should be referenced during commissioning, after replacing the motor, or after any event that would cause the position of the encoder to differ from the actual position of [...]
Byteswapping in Siemens S7
When dealing with communication between two devices, often times we need to swap the bytes in the incoming/outgoing words to have the data correctly represented on both devices. Rockwell has the handy SWPB function to do this for you in ladder logic, but as far as we know Step [...]
Siemens Random Number Generator
It was brought up to us a while ago that it might be useful to have a block for Siemens that generates a random number in order to simulate noise or other various random conditions. We searched online to try and find an example but found that most of [...]