The most revealing number in our ELAU PacDrive 2025 Customer Survey isn’t the breakdown rate. It’s the gap between what sites know and what action they’ve taken Of the 200 UK sites we surveyed, 87.7% know their ELAU PacDrive M hardware is obsolete, but only a few have a plan ...

The evidence has usually disappeared before the diagnosis starts The most useful diagnostic evidence on a PacDrive line has normally gone by the time an engineer begins to look for it. For example, a machine faults mid-shift. However, production needs output so someone acknowledges the alarm, resets the controller or ...

Maintenance of lines and machines is vital for minimising breakdowns and unplanned downtime. Understanding our customers’ maintenance strategies and how they maintain their PacDrive systems provides critical insight into their operational resilience. This is particularly important where PacDrive M is concerned as legacy hardware constraints often dictate strategy. Of all ...

Reactive versus predictive maintenance – which is the best strategy? Getting this right is key for any site to ensure operations run smoothly. Here we look at both these and examine the circumstances under which they should be used. Reactive maintenance isn’t automatically wrong Run-to-failure is a legitimate strategy and ...

The error code is only the starting point A MC-4 error code tells you what tripped, but it rarely tells you why. When an I²t or a following error appears, it is natural to focus on the drive or motor which triggered it. However, this is where diagnostic time can ...

Obsolete doesn’t mean unavailable — yet  You can still buy a PacDrive M MC-4 drive today. That’s a potential trap because availability now is not a reliable guide for availability in eighteen months’ time.  PacDrive M production finished in December 2018 and, at the end of December 2024, Schneider Electric ended its official service and repair window. However, C400, C600 controllers, MC-4 drives, SM and SH motors still circulate through distributors and ...