What’s Three Minutes of Motor Testing Worth?
A non-destructive technique offered payback by determining the root cause of a critical, repeatedly...
Understand How Temperatures Affect Gearboxes
Gaps in Your Motor Reliability Program?
Businesses invest millions of dollars in what they believe will be a fail-safe maintenance program...
Heed Design Letters When Replacing Motors
By Mike Howell, Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) Too often, replacement...
ON THE FLOOR
Each month we talk with maintenance and technology professionals about their views and pressing problems on the factory floor.
FMEA or RCM: Is There a Difference?Q: Should I do a FMEA or RCM to resolve a machine issue? A:The short answer is that it depends on several things, primarily frequency of occurrence and severity of the failure mode. I frequently am asked, what’s the difference between doing an FMEA (failure mode and effects analysis) and an RCM (reliability-centered maintenance) evaluation?
Video | PdMA Corporation At SMRP 2016
Noah Bethel, vice president of product development at PdMA Corporation, talks about electric motor...
Video | TECO Westinghouse at SMRP 2016
Andrew Spencer, field sales representative at TECO Westinghouse, talks about the company’s...
Video | ALL TEST Pro at SMRP 2016
Shane Franklin, regional sales manager at ALL-TEST Pro, talks about the company’s motor...
Direct Drive Motors
Interchangeable Coupling Line
Hybrid Drives
High-Efficiency Hybrid Motor
My Motor Failed. Now What?
By Mike Howell, Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) PROCESS DOWNTIME is expensive—even...
