Shaft Alignment Know How: Machine Train Alignment

• LUDECA

Communication and Accountability are the Keys to Success in Condition-Based Maintenance

The goal of equipment condition monitoring is to increase equipment availability, increase product yield and quality, and reduce maintenance cost by...

• Forrest Pardue
• 24/7

Applications for Motor Current Signature Analysis

The fundamental purpose behind the original development of MCSA technology was the detection of rotor bar faults. Rotor bars are difficult to assess using traditional test methods, including vibration analysis...

• Howard Penrose
• MotorDoc LLC

Reducing Arc Flash Risks with Electrical Maintenance Safety Devices

Electrical accidents, such as arc flashes, happen daily; however, there are ways companies and individuals can reduce the occurrence of these accidents and protect everybody concerned from the physical, financial, and statutory consequences...

• Martin Robinson
• IRISS Inc.

A Hoist Application in the Mining Industry

A hoist or winder is a mission critical application found in underground mines. The hoist is used either to transport ore to the surface or personnel to or from the mine shaft. There are three types of hoists...

• Tim Sundstrom
• SPM Instrument

Wound Rotor Motor Fault

Wound rotor motors, theoretically they are the same as far as induction. The access to the motor is significantly increased with round rotor motors and it allows an interesting trouble shooting approach.

• Noah Bethel
• PdMA Corporation

Boliden Garpenberg Mine

In January 2011, New Boliden decided on a major expansion of operations at the Garpenberg mine in central Sweden, aiming to successively increase production from 1.4 million to 2.5 million tons annually...

• SPM Instrument

Electric Motor Fault

In this article we are going to take a look at a fault on an electric motor and then attempt to explain why the vibration changed in the way that it did...

• Jason Tranter
• Mobius Institute