Martin Robinson
Two Minute Tips
Are Traditional Electrical Maintenance Practices Sustainable?
Traditional electrical maintenance practices, such as tightening and Megger testing, are all designed to do one thing: prove that the system is safe and meets the operational requirements of the plant. But shutdown calendar-based maintenance is a complete waste of money...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Two Minute Tips
Equipment Failure Pattern Distribution from 3 Studies
If you understand failure patterns and how assets fail, then you can start to develop a strategy. Failure curves can show us...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Two Minute Tips
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...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
White Papers
Using Electrical Maintenance Safety Devices to Bridge the Skills Gap
With an impending skills gap among technical workers, proactive maintenance plans must also be safe, efficient and easier to implement …
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Webinars
Condition Based Strategies for Electrical Asset Reliability
Condition based maintenance strategies are replacing the antiquated, dangerous and costly time-based, open-panel electrical inspections. Companies are looking at utilizing the benefits of condition based maintenance strategies in their equipment reliability programs to increase... Find out in this free webinar.
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Five Minute Facts
Know Your Emissivity
Emissivity is a measure of a material’s ability to emit infrared energy. The emissivity of a surface is the ratio of the energy radiated from it to that from a blackbody at the same temperature and wavelength and under the same viewing conditions...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Five Minute Facts
Does an IR Camera Work With Your Infrared Windows?
Someone comes into your facility with an infrared (IR) camera to take measurements through an IR window. How do you know their camera will work...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Two Minute Tips
Don’t Forget to Label Your Infrared Inspections Window
Although you may be the engineer responsible for installing the IR window, you may not be the one using it. Record all required target data inside the panel, as this will make sure that the same data is recorded using…
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Webinars
Find It and Fix It Before It Fails – A Maintenance Strategy for Electrical Systems
Modern Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) programs train new engineers and skilled labor in asset reliability and in using the latest technologies that can find a problem with an electrical asset and fix it before it fails...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
