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What Are the 7 Steps to Quality Electric Motor Repair?

What Are the 7 Steps to Quality Electric Motor Repair?

When the motor repair is completed the incoming and final measurements can be compiled and put into a report format for historical tracking and trending. This report should be a summary of everything that was done to the motor including before and after images....

4000 HP Common Spare

4000 HP Common Spare

In November 2017, IEM was contacted by a California Refinery to quote an API 541 5th Edition Medium Voltage motor for a shipping pump application. The initial motor quotation was for a Siemens 4000 HP, 3600 RPM Motor, 6813, WPII enclosure. As discussions and data...

Predictive Technologies are the Heart of Reliability

Predictive Technologies are the Heart of Reliability

Just as advances in medicine have more than doubled human life expectancy, the application of reliability technology to maintenance has brought similar results to industry. The similarities are remarkable. For example, think of blood testing and oil analysis, or...

The Big Difference in Large Machines

The Big Difference in Large Machines

Eric van der Hoofd (Account Manager at SPIT) shares a heartwarming story about how two SPIT locations came together to get the job done: “A Dutch Energy Company gave us seven days for a turnkey removal, refurbishment and reinstallation on an high voltage AC Induction...