motors
Five Minute Facts
Fluting: Beyond the Motor
Before scrolling past what may appear to be another boring article about fluting, VFD’s, grounding brushes and ceramic bearings, I urge you to read on and join in the discussion.
- Matthew Knuth
- SPM Instrument
Five Minute Facts
Magnetic Stick Inspection-From Oil Line to Every Gearbox Daily
Magnetic Stick Inspection - for the oil line to every gearbox daily to make sure that they are not damaging anything.
- Brian Borg
- InfraBuild Steel (formerly Liberty Steel)
Two Minute Tips
Determining the Number of Poles and RPM
Give me the number of poles and I can tell you the RPM; give me the RPM and I can tell you the number of poles. This instructional presentation discusses the formulas related to determining theses values...
- Don Donofrio
- The Snell Group
Webinars
Electrical and Current Signature Analysis of Electric Motors and Gearboxes
In this live webinar, we will discuss how ESA is used to evaluate electric motors, couplings and gearboxes of several types including speed reducers, increasers and cooling tower boxes. Electrical Signature Analysis (ESA) technology is used to review incoming power quality and the machine through the entire powertrain........
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
Case Studies and Stories
Duke Energy Takes Advantage of IIoT for Predictive Maintenance Applications
This case study investigates Duke Energy’s quest to replace its monthly, manual data collection practices with daily, remote data collection and monitoring.
- Alex West
- IHS Markit
Case Studies and Stories
Automotive Manufacturer Compares In-House Third-Party Motor Testing. Guess Which One Saved the Most Time and Money?
Catching motor problems before they fail saves your plant headaches, not to mention a ton of money they would have lost through unplanned shutdowns. View the lessons learned by manufacturers who needed reliability programs...
White Papers
Leveraging IoT for Condition-Based Maintenance
Let's start with the basics. What is condition-based Maintenance? Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance strategy that ...
- Jay Cooper
- Des-Case
White Papers
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
Articles
Large Electric Motor Reliability: What Did the Studies Really Say?
One of the most frequently quoted studies related to electric motor reliability is a 1983 Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) project performed by General Electric...
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
