Yaskawa alarm lookups: drive, servo or robot?
Yaskawa codes look different on each product: letters like oC and uv1 on a V1000 drive, A. numbers on a SERVOPACK servo, four-digit alarms on a Motoman robot controller. Find your unit, then open its lookup.
Pick the unit that shows the code
Each lookup lists the codes from Yaskawa's own manuals, with what each one means, the likely causes and the first checks, and links the manual it comes from.
| Lookup | Where you see the code | On the page |
|---|---|---|
| Yaskawa V1000 Alarm and Fault Codes | V1000 drive, letter codes on the LED operator | 70 codes, for example oC Overcurrent, ov Overvoltage, Uv1 DC Bus Undervoltage |
| Yaskawa SERVOPACK Alarm Codes | Sigma-7, Sigma-5 and Sigma-II SERVOPACK, A. codes on the status display | 56 codes, for example A.020 Parameter Checksum Error, A.030 Main Circuit Detector Error, A.040 Parameter Setting Error |
| Yaskawa Motoman Alarm Codes | DX100, DX200 and YRC1000 robot controllers, alarm number on the pendant | 47 codes, for example 0020 CPU COMMUNICATION ERROR, 0021 COMMUNICATION ERROR(SERVO), 0060 COMMUNICATION ERROR(I/O MODULE) |
For the four Yaskawa drive faults that cause most trips (oC, ov, uv1, oL1), fabrico.io has the Yaskawa VFD fault codes guide.
Log the code, not just the stop
Write down the code with the unit it came from and the minutes lost, every time. Two numbers a week (how often each code fires and what it costs) turn "that alarm comes up sometimes" into a ranked list, and the free OEE tracker turns the week into a downtime Pareto. An alarm number tells you what the unit detected, not what happened at the machine in the seconds before: Fabrico's camera-based OEE software syncs camera video with machine data, so you can replay the moment the machine stopped next to the alarm.
See the moment the machine stopped
Fabrico, a light MES with computer vision, syncs camera footage with machine and timeline data, so you can replay the exact moment a machine stopped and review the cause next to its alarm. Cameras also catch short stops and a line that is switched on but not producing, the losses nobody writes down. Machines connect through a PLC, a Fabrico IoT device or an AI camera.
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