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What Electric Motor Frame Sizes Tell You

June 5, 2019

It is standard to see the “frame” size on every electric motor nameplate, but do you understand what that frame means in regard to the mounting of the motor? Many have been in the situation where you needed a specific frame only to realize it was made with a special shaft or has a mounting …

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Selecting the Correct Motor Enclosure

May 14, 2019

Are you replacing your failed motor with the best motor for your application and environment? The easy part of replacing your motor is matching the frame size, horsepower, RPM, and voltage, but it may not always be wise to just replace the motor with a motor matching the same enclosure that you have always had. …

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How Does Vibration Analysis Work?

May 8, 2019

In recent years, companies have entered the transition from reactive maintenance, to planned maintenance, and into the most efficient method found in predictive maintenance. While the first two methods have dominated in the past, they have been found to be costly, inefficient in time, and sometimes result in over-maintenance of machines. In predictive maintenance, machine …

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How fast should you get your electric motor repair back?

September 27, 2018

Time is money. When an electric motor is out for repair it can take days, weeks, or months to get it back. What should your expectation be? What are they even doing with the motor while its gone, why does it take this long? We feel a better question to ask is: Does a quick …

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IIoT vs. PdM (Internet of Things Vs. Predictive Maintenance)

June 27, 2018

When you start a compare and contrast with Predictive Maintenance and the Internet of Things within the industrial maintenance world; you may have some people scratch their head and say, “are they not the same thing?”. Well, the easy answer is a simple answer of yes and no. Yes, they are both moving towards a …

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Where Should I Buy My Electric Motors?

June 12, 2018

In today’s day and age you can put any motor part or catalog number into an internet search engine and come back with numerous places to purchase the unit. Being that the maintenance world tends to be on the reactive side of purchasing this makes it easy to get your hand on a product right …

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Should I Varnish Dip My Motor Every Time?

May 23, 2018

I am often told “I want that motor varnish dipped too”, but is re-dipping a reconditioned motor really good for the motor? Using proper repair practices motors can be reconditioned and repaired many, many times. Putting varnish over varnish continually is not always in the best interest for that motor in the long term. Continually …

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Proper Storage Practices for Spare Electric Motors

April 18, 2018

Many companies have spare electric motors in their warehouse in the event of a critical motor failure. Many times this can be an intelligent decision, allowing for quick change out in the event of a failure (or pending failure) or during a scheduled outage or shutdown. It is important to have a plan for when …

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Adam Smith presenting time waveform and FFT spectrum analysis

What is Vibration Analysis? Time Waveform and FFT Spectrum Analysis

March 8, 2018

The below video is a 5 minute segment of a 30 minute long presentation given by Adam Smith, CMRT and Jacob Bell of HECO PSG at the 2017 Reliability, Process, and Maintenance (RPM) Symposium. This presentation discusses the basics of vibration analysis as a predictive maintenance tool. This presentation covers: What is a vibration spectrum? …

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How are you using maintenance data? To make decisions?

February 26, 2018

There is so much data available to us in today’s world. Smart homes, smart thermostats, smart light bulbs, everything is “smart.” If you went out and bought one of the smart devices, would you use it? Or would you use it just like your previous “non-smart” thermostat? If you are going to pay a premium …

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