You can avoid costly repairs by ensuring you aren’t combining incompatible greases on your electric motors. Keep in mind that grease works differently from oil, even though both act as lubricants. Because of its thickness, grease can stay on surfaces despite gravity...
Maybe you’ve got a centrifugal pump that sounds like it’s full of rocks, marbles, or gravel. That is a sign of cavitation -- which can total your pump if you don’t track down the cause. But what is cavitation anyway? What is Cavitation? The official definition of...
There are three mechanical fits that come into play when considering vertical motor alignment. Those are face runout, register fit runout and shaft runout. One of the major manufacturers of vertical motors gives these tolerances for allowable runout for a 447-frame...
Plant reliability has many facets, including the planned removal and reconditioning of critical electric motors and other electromechanical equipment. There are a host of benefits to reconditioning, but scheduled reconditions are most advised. For example, scheduled...
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....
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...