Electric Motor Reliability
White Papers
Gaps in Your Electric Motor Reliability Program
Businesses invest millions of dollars in what they believe will be a fail-safe maintenance program for their electric motors. Regular tests are scheduled for each motor; engineers dutifully record the data when required and then move on to the next motor.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Two Minute Tips
Troubleshooting a Running Motor
This tip discusses troubleshooting the motor and machine train with the motor still running. The fault zones specific to the physical motor are the stator, rotor and airgap....
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Two Minute Tips
Electric Motor Reliability Trifecta – Training Cont’d
Keeping the focus on Trending, in Trending Part 1 we discussed qualitative trending and focused on the change in appearance. This week we switch from qualitative to quantitative trending...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Two Minute Tips
Electric Motor Reliability Trifecta – Trending
For this tip we focus on qualitative trending of data. Remember trend is your friend and by qualitative trending we are talking about a change in the appearance of the data rather than an amplitude value change.....
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Two Minute Tips
Electric Motor Reliability Trifecta – Quality Control Part 3
Trifecta is picking the top three finishers in a horse race, and it can be worth a lot of money. Applying the trifecta theme to motor reliability, the top three applications of test technology to ensure you win big in reliability are Quality Control, Trending, and Troubleshooting…
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Two Minute Tips
Electric Motor Reliability Trifecta: Quality Control (Part 2)
“Ready” spare motors are critical to ensure minimum loss of production in the event of an unplanned failure. Warehouse spares must be maintained and tested to ensure they...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Two Minute Tips
Electric Motor Reliability Trifecta: Quality Control (Part 1)
Trifecta refers to picking the top three finishers in a horse race, and it can be worth a lot of money. Applying that to motor reliability, what are the top three applications of test technology to ensure you win big in reliability? In this tip we will be exploring quality control...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Interviews
Electric Motor Reliability
In this podcast you’ll learn what it takes to get started in electric motor reliability, common faults, and the biggest impact…
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
