Five Minute Facts
Make Sure You’ve Determined Bearing Requirements before Greasing
Once you’ve consolidated your lubrication program and standardized the grease guns, you need to make absolutely sure you know the bearing requirements…
- Paul Dufresne
- Reliability Playbook, in Partnership with Lubrication Engineers
AI-Driven Predictive Maintenance: What’s the Catch?
Hunter Albright presents five challenges that confront plants that wish to implement AI in their predictive maintenance program…
- Mohan Amasa
- AssetSense
Training Artificial Intelligence: The Overall Process
Matthew Moore, Dr. David Siegel, and Ed Spence discuss issues around training AI, including which data to use, choice of algorithm, validation, consistency…
- Ed Spence
- The Machine Instrumentation Group
Advantages to Dynamic Balancing
Imbalance is a leading cause of excessive machine/rotor vibration. It can be an inherent result of rotor design or construction. Imbalance can occur due to routine wear or damage...
- Chris Keniston
- ERBESSD INSTRUMENTS
Electric Motor Testing: The Power Factor
Howard Penrose explains the power factor of an electric motor, using an example from a real motor…
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
What Can We See with ESA and MCSA?
If I take my data between the controls and the motor, current signature shows downstream toward the load and process, while voltage signature shows upstream toward the generator. And it shows the whole system at once…
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
See Inside an Induction Motor
Howard Penrose shows you around the inside of an induction motor and explains what we need to watch for…
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
Does Your Maintenance Program Need Maintenance?
A “good” maintenance program involves keeping equipment in peak condition and mitigating failure. Getting to this result takes the proper balance of strategies, people, and resources. Mark Frogley explains...
- Mark Frogley
- Acoem USA
When an Electric Motor Gets Too Hot
Many factors can cause an electric motor to get hot, and it can cause a huge number of problems. Howard Penrose explains…
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC