The spring shutdown surprised EVERYONE. No one could have foreseen just how swift and thoroughly our every day lives could be changed. Perhaps the most surprising was people's reaction to the sheer amount of FREE TIME they suddenly found themselves with. Previously such a precious, rare and valuable commodity, everyone was suddenly filthy rich [...]
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 and drives with newer, low [...]
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, causing all kinds of network [...]
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 discussions and seminars about the [...]
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 the machine axis. Referencing the [...]
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 7 doesn't have a block [...]
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 them were in actuality not [...]
As s Certified Siemens Solution Partner we are used to working with Siemens software and have received extensive training. But we are still human beings and as we all know, errors can occur and sometimes it is a struggle to figure out what is going, especially if you are working on a time sensitive [...]
BRAVE CONTROL SOLUTIONS INC. BECOMES INDUSOFT CERTIFIED INTEGRATOR October - 2018 After completing their official training course and passing their certification test and process Brave is now able to announce that they have officially become an InduSoft Certified Integrator. InduSoft, owned by Schneider Electric Software, provides a powerful family of industrial software products for developing [...]
We are very excited to be going back to Ford Field this year for Manufacturing in America summit hosted by Siemens and Electromatic. Come visit us at booth 201 at Ford Field for Manufacturing in America and play Tetris on a PLC! Our engineers coded Tetris on a Siemens PLC and hooked it up [...]
