Allen-Bradley Repair
Rockwell Automation
Allen-Bradley hardware runs more North American plants than any other brand — and Rockwell retires product lines on a schedule. PanelView Plus 6 was discontinued in 2021 with no direct replacement, PLC-5 ended in 2017, and SLC 500 is in long wind-down. We repair the installed base: PanelView terminals, PowerFlex drives, Ultra servo drives, SLC and ControlLogix power supplies and modules.
Independent repair — not Allen-Bradley-affiliated
Allen-Bradley repair services
Allen-Bradley
$499PanelView Plus 6 Repair
Dead screen, unresponsive touch, or boot loop on a discontinued PanelView Plus 6? Flat-price repair with your application preserved — no replacement exists.
3–5 business days in lab · Buy online now →
Allen-Bradley
$649PanelView Plus 6 12"/15" Repair
The large-format PVP6 terminals cost the most to replace — and repair the best. Flat $649 for 12.1" and 15" models.
3–5 business days in lab · Buy online now →
Allen-Bradley
$649PanelView Plus 7 Repair
Factory-channel PanelView Plus 7 repairs are quoted at $2,700–$4,000. Ours is a flat $649 — same bonded-glass repair, 24-month warranty.
3–5 business days in lab · Buy online now →
Allen-Bradley
$749PanelView Plus 7 12"/15" Repair
Large-format PanelView Plus 7 repair at a flat $749 — against factory-channel quotes that approach the cost of a new terminal.
3–5 business days in lab · Buy online now →
Allen-Bradley
$399PanelView 800 Repair
Touch, backlight, and power repair for the PanelView 800 line — flat $399 against a $2,000+ replacement.
3–5 business days in lab · Buy online now →
Allen-Bradley
from $449PanelView Standard / 550 / 1000 Repair
The legacy PanelView Standard line has been unbuyable for years — we keep them alive. From $449, priced firm after a free evaluation.
3–5 business days in lab · Buy online now →
Allen-Bradley
Free evaluationAllen-Bradley Servo Drive Repair
Ultra 3000 and Ultra-series drives repaired with free evaluation — typical $500–$1,100. Kinetix accepted for honest evaluation.
3–5 business days in lab · Free evaluation →
Allen-Bradley
Free evaluationPowerFlex VFD Repair
PowerFlex drives up to 25 HP — free evaluation, typical repairs $350–$900 against four-figure replacements.
3–5 business days in lab · Free evaluation →
Product families we service
PanelView Plus 7
Current line — factory repair priced near replacement; we repair the bonded-touch failure at a flat price
PanelView Plus 6
Discontinued 2021, no direct replacement — repair keeps your configured terminal alive
PanelView Standard / 550 / 1000
Long obsolete; backlight, keypad & power repairs
PanelView 800
Current budget line; flat-price repair beats replacement lead time
PowerFlex 525 / 40 / 70 / 700
IGBT and bus-capacitor failures repaired up to 25 HP
Ultra 3000 / Ultra 100-200
Fully bench-testable servo drives
SLC 500 & ControlLogix
Power supplies and I/O repaired; CPUs tested honestly
Categories: HMI / Touchscreens · VFDs / AC Drives · Servo Drives · PLC Modules · Power Supplies
What fails on Allen-Bradley hardware
Across the Allen-Bradley equipment that reaches our bench, a handful of faults account for most of it. Electronics age in fairly predictable ways, which is exactly why board-level repair works.
PanelView Plus 6 Repair
Touch digitizer wear-out
What you see: Touch stops responding in one area, drifts away from where you press, or registers presses on its own.
Why: Analog resistive touch panels wear where they are pressed most — typically the handful of buttons an operator uses every shift. The conductive coating and the flex tail that carries the signal degrade with cycles, not with age.
PanelView Plus 6 12"/15" Repair
Large-format backlight failure
What you see: A dark or unevenly lit screen — sometimes bright at one edge and dim across the rest.
Why: Larger panels use longer backlight assemblies with more of the circuitry that drives them, so they have proportionally more to fail and are more prone to visibly uneven illumination as elements age at different rates.
PanelView Plus 7 Repair
Touch glass delamination
What you see: Unresponsive or erratic touch, sometimes with a visible bubble, cloudiness or separation at the edge of the glass.
Why: Bonded touch assemblies can separate at the adhesive layer under thermal cycling and constant vibration. Once the bond fails the touch layer no longer registers pressure consistently across the affected area.
PanelView Plus 7 12"/15" Repair
Wide-format touch failure
What you see: Touch dead in places, inaccurate, or registering phantom presses across a widescreen panel.
Why: Wide panels combine long signal paths with significant mechanical flex across the centre of the screen, and both stress the touch assembly and its connections more than a compact terminal.
PanelView 800 Repair
Touch and keypad failure
What you see: Screen or keys stop responding, or respond only when pressed hard.
Why: Compact terminals are often the most heavily used interfaces on a machine, and the touch surface and membrane keypad wear mechanically with cycles at the specific points operators press every shift.
PanelView Standard / 550 / 1000 Repair
Backlight lamp and inverter failure
What you see: Screen dark or badly dimmed, sometimes with a pink or dull cast before it fails completely.
Why: Older terminals of this generation use lamp-based backlights driven by an inverter. Both the lamp and the inverter wear out with running hours, and a colour shift before failure is characteristic of an aging lamp.
Before you ship a Allen-Bradley unit
- □Confirm the supply feeding the terminal is actually delivering its rated voltage under load — a failing panel supply mimics a dead HMI exactly.
- □Shine a bright light at an angle across a dark screen. If you can make out the application faintly, the LCD is alive and you have a backlight fault, which is a cheaper and faster repair.
- □If the unit boots but the touch is wrong only in one region, note where. Localized dead zones point at digitizer wear; whole-screen drift more often points at the controller.
- □Note the exact text of any boot or fatal error. The code narrows the fault far faster than "it will not start".
- □Back up your runtime application if you have a copy — we preserve what is on the unit, but a backup is cheap insurance on any repair.
Repair or replace?
Operator terminals are the clearest repair-over-replace case in a plant. Much of the installed base is discontinued with no drop-in successor, so replacing means specifying new hardware, re-developing or converting the application, re-testing it against live machinery, and retraining operators on a screen that behaves differently. The repaired terminal drops back into the same panel cutout running the same application. Even where a successor exists, the migration engineering usually costs several times the repair.
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