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  • Motor Testing

Failure to Launch

Starting a motor across the line can generate 7-10 times (or more) the normal full load amps and create extreme torque stress on the shaft line components. In addition to these normal stresses on the electrical and mechanical elements of the motor, protection systems like overload...

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  • Vibration Analysis

Three Into One: Triaxial Vibration Monitoring

This quick tip helps explain why triaxial accelerometers are a useful solution in vibration monitoring where multi-axis vibration measurement is required...

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Oil Analysis Test Packages - Test Oil | CBM CONNECT
  • Oil Analysis + Wear Particle

Determine Your Oil Analysis Test Packages

Oil analysis test packages should be carefully considered. Different equipment have different test profile requirements...

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Proper Lubrication of a chain with John Sander of Lubrication Engineers
  • Lubrication

Chains Last Longer When Properly Lubricated

Why go through the expensive chain replacement process when the solution may be to pay attention to the proper lubrication so the chains last longer…

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  • Oil Analysis + Wear Particle

The First Step to Creating a World-Class Oil Analysis Program

When you start implementing an oil analysis program, you need to decide which equipment in the plant to sample...

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  • Thermography

Don’t Forget the Walk Around

For over two decades, PdM (Predictive Maintenance) technicians use best practices to walk around equipment seeing, smelling, and listening before they open their PdM toolbox...

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Concepts of Phase by Anders Hultman of SPM Instrument AB
  • Vibration Analysis

Concepts of Phase

Phase is the relationship between two events and is measured at a specific frequency. In this two-minute tip, you will learn how to compare two phases...

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  • Motor Testing

Failure to Start? What’s Next?

If your motor fails to start, what actions do you immediately take? There are a variety of possibilities and questions that come to mind to help you in the right direction ...

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  • Condition Monitoring Management & AI

HD Technologies on Extruder Gear Pump

Bearing damage can create catastrophic damage over time. Is it beneficial to fix the bearings at first sight or allow the damage to continue? See how the benefits of using multiple high-frequency measurement techniques to get a good feel for damage state...

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