April 3, 2024
The days of tearing a machine apart to remedy an unknown problem are all but gone thanks to the use and accuracy of noninvasive testing and maintenance techniques. Luckily for the human body, noninvasive testing also makes diagnosing illnesses less painful and dangerous as well. In healthcare, EKGs are a common, noninvasive way to examine …
January 31, 2024
In both medicine and industrial diagnostics, less invasive methods are typically the tests and procedures that are often the most cost-effective and easiest to recover from. Ultrasonic testing – sometimes referred to as sonography – is a noninvasive imaging method that relies on high-intensity sound waves to create images of internal workings and compartments. In reliability …
January 10, 2024
Did you know the vast majority of electric motor failures are preventable? Sure, everything has a limited lifespan so some failures cannot be prevented, but many of the motors that come into our shop have suffered an unnecessary failure. Since HECO launched in 1959, we’ve performed countless motor failure repair jobs. Motor rewinds in particular …
August 24, 2023
What was the first thing your parents did when you complained that you didn’t feel well before school? We’re guessing it was checking for a fever by touching your forehead with the back of their hand before grabbing a thermometer for a more exact measurement. In reliability maintenance, temperature is an equally important indication that …
June 21, 2023
Diagnosing, responding to, and preventing issues within rotating equipment proactively is the goal of reliability maintenance. While this industrial approach focuses on improving process productivity and increasing overall system efficiency and ROI, reliability maintenance also has a lot in common with the practice of medicine. After all, both medical and maintenance engineers work to treat …
May 24, 2023
Since its founding in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1959, HECO has formed business relationships built on thoughtful service and value-driven solutions. HECO’s partnership with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) provider relayr aligns with its partnership-based approach to business and helps provide a more technologically advanced way to keep your electric motors running smoothly. Driven to Serve …
May 10, 2023
When it comes to motors and equipment, a holistic approach requires viewing various segments as a whole rather than a collection of parts. For the purpose of this blog series, we’ll take that notion a step further to look at how issues within a given system are both predicted and responded to. At HECO, we …
April 13, 2023
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) grows every day. Unfortunately, the success rate of these manufacturing-, monitoring-, and supply chain-based IoT uses does not increase as quickly as the applications proliferate. According to IoTNOW, 74% of companies view their IoT projects as unsuccessful. When integrating an IIoT application, gathering information and developing statistics for Predictive …
November 16, 2022
According to analyst firm Aberdeen Research, 82% of companies experienced unplanned downtime over the past three years. That unplanned downtime cost companies as much as $260,000 an hour! While Predictive maintenance can significantly reduce that expensive downtime and save thousands of dollars, you need to be familiar with this approach’s value creation and have the …
October 19, 2022
Unreliable equipment invariably leads to costly downtime, lost production, and expensive repairs. Predictive maintenance technologies provide stability by utilizing a proven approach to enhancing the reliability of everything from electric motors to chillers. In turn, more reliable equipment provides you and your team with some peace of mind. What if there was a way to …
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