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Lubricants Can’t Be Green … Can They?
Today, many want to “go green” in various aspects of their lives. The question is, what does this mean? It is typically meant to be a business or lifestyle choice to act in environmentally friendly ways...
- John Sander
- Lubrication Engineers
Five Minute Facts
Destructive Impact of Heat on Electric Motors
The size of a motor doesn’t matter if it is a critical motor. In this case study had 2 hp motor failed it would have cost $40,000 a day in lost electricity production. See how the technicians using, newly acquired data analysis knowledge, discovered a heat problem with the motor before it failed.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Two Minute Tips
Measuring Fuel Consumption Through Heat Mapping
We had a customer who wanted to identify areas of the mine that could benefit from road maintenance. We started by taking samples of the fuel consumption rate…
- Rob Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability
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Switching Strategies: Moving to Condition Based Maintenance
Balancing cost reduction and efficiency improvement targets is a common source of frustration for maintenance and engineering managers. For facilities that operate continuously with no window for unplanned shutdowns, poor reliability and availability of machinery is far more serious, but even in factories with regular opportunities for maintenance, recovery can still be expensive and time consuming.
- AVT Reliability
Two Minute Tips
Keeping Track of Starts
Heat is often the final variable causing pre-mature aging and breakdown of your insulation system. Another component of your electric motor, overlooked for heat related failure is the rotor.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Two Minute Tips
Thermal Convection
Many electric motors use thermal convection to keep the motor cool. The greater the surface area of contact, the greater heat transfer ability.......
- Bill Kruger
- ALL-TEST Pro
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Bridging the Maintenance Gap to Condition-Based Maintenance Part II
EMSDs, along with data analysis and a new approach to maintenance called condition-based maintenance, can exploit the information age to not only bridge the knowledge gap, but to also improve the efficiency, safety, reliability and cost of electrical system maintenance…
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Two Minute Tips
The Heat Is On!
As summer nears, thoughts of extreme heat and humidity start to enter our minds. Heat and humidity are not friends of the electric motor…
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
White Papers
A Case for Capturing and Analyzing Trends in Your Alignment Data
It is well known that misalignment is one of the greatest causes of failure in rotating equipment. In fact, research demonstrates that more than 50% of machine breakdowns are the direct result of poor alignment...
- Grant Dennler
- PRUFTECHNIK
