Motor Testing
Predictive Maintenance Team Saves Steel Mill Time and Money with Thorough Motor Testing
The steel mill’s in-house predictive maintenance team inspects the overhead cranes on a quarterly basis. When the predictive maintenance team was alerted...
- Richard Scott
- ALL-TEST PRO
Power Quality: What and Why?
Voltage quality can be degraded in several ways. You can have high or low voltage in reference to the motor nameplate, including transient spikes of voltage...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Improve Electro-Mechanical Reliability Using Electrical Signature Analysis
Electrical Signature Analysis (ESA) is a predictive maintenance (PdM) technology that uses the motor’s supply voltage and operating current…
- Richard Scott
- ALL-TEST PRO
Hybrid Analytics: The Value of Machine and Human Supervision
Big Data is a power to be harnessed. For the nearly three decades since the concept of Big Data entered the public consciousness, researchers, programmers and data scientists have struggled with the best way to leverage the information and take full advantage of it...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Machine Train: Pumps and Fans
Continuing the focus on the machine train analysis tools of the Emax Current Demodulation technology, we will discuss pumps and fans.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Low Power Factor
Motors are designed to operate between 50 and 100% of rated load…
- Richard Scott
- ALL-TEST PRO
Machine Train: Belts
Continuing the focus on the machine train analysis tools of the EMAX Current Demodulation technology, this tip discusses belts...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Troubleshooting a Failed Induction Motor
Listen to how the MCEMax was able to diagnose a rotor fault creating a cost avoidance of over $120,000 for this large pulp and paper facility...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Machine Train: Gears
This quick tip focuses on the machine train analysis tools of the EMAX Current Demodulation technology starting with gears...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation