Realize Payback From Motor Insulation Tests
Insulation problems are to blame for a high percentage of motor failures and associated unplanned...
Understand Motor/System Baselines
Add Electrical Motor Testing to Your PdM Toolkit
This predictive approach offers reliability benefits that time-based maintenance can’t. Numerous...
Infrared Inspections Of Installed Motors
By Jim Seffrin, Infraspection Institute Despite the important role they play in facilities...
ON THE FLOOR
Each month we talk with maintenance and technology professionals about their views and pressing problems on the factory floor.
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TBM Can’t Stand AloneQ: What’s wrong with time-based maintenance? A: Time-based maintenance (TBM) is running out of time. Maintenance thinking has gone through many changes since the 1978 Nolan and Heap report for United Airlines. The report compiled information on the conditional probability of failure versus operating age for numerous electrical and mechanical airline-industry components. Its findings challenged […]
What’s Three Minutes of Motor Testing Worth?
A non-destructive technique offered payback by determining the root cause of a critical, repeatedly...
2016 Best Practices: Hand-Held Motor Analysis, By ALL-TEST Pro
ALL-TEST PRO 5: The only de-energized, non-destructive, hand-held instrument you need for complete...
Heed Design Letters When Replacing Motors
By Mike Howell, Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) Too often, replacement...
On The Floor: Panelists Describe Payoff From Predictive Tools
Motor-Testing Tools Expand Services
New state-of-the-art instruments at Midwest service-provider Koontz-Wagner helped boost the...
