28/07/2025 • In our Meet the Team series, we’re speaking to James Scott, a Digital Services and Condition Monitoring Specialist.
In the next part of our meet the team series, we’re speaking to James Scott, a Digital Services and Condition Monitoring Specialist, here at SEW-EURODRIVE UK.
James has been with us for nearly a year now, but he has over 13 years of engineering experience altogether, having spent time working in the warehouse automation space.
Continue reading to find out about James’ day-to-day role, and the experience he’s gained, as well as his hobbies and favourite food.
I am a Digital Services and Condition Monitoring Specialist. I look after a product called DriveRadar®, which is a piece of condition monitoring software for our drives and motors. Imagine you’ve got an engine light on your car – it's similar to that but on an industrial scale, so it tells you where the potential problems are, before they occur, so they can be fixed pre-emptively.
This is my first job within the drives industry, but I’ve been an engineer for the past 13 years.
I was a field service engineer for a company called Imperium Automation, mainly working in the warehouse automation space doing electrical controls, repairs, mechanical, hydraulic schematics. Anything that was broken, we’d go and fix it.
I’ve worked with SEW drives throughout my career, installing, removing, repairing and replacing them. This means I already came into SEW-EURODRIVE with great knowledge of the products on offer, which I’ve been able to build on in my time here so far.
I’m a qualified maintenance engineer, with a mechanical electrical background, and I’ve done multiple electrical controls courses throughout my career.
I’ve always been told that for most things, you’re only really remembered by your failures, not your successes. So, if you don’t have many people talking about your failures, then that’s a success in itself!
A big chicken madras, with a pint of Cobra!
With this job, I enjoy getting up and exploring what I can do with the product that I work with.
I’m an avid petrol head, and I also go touring all over Europe on my motorbike.
Watch James’ video below.