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The Benefits of Infrared Thermography for Industrial Applications
What is Infrared Thermography? Infrared thermography can help your business minimize downtime, avoid costly repairs and improve safety. Infrared thermography is crucial for both condition-monitoring tasks and predictive maintenance plans. This non-destructive testing...
Optimal Bearing Lubrication: Guidelines and Timing
Bearing lubrication is the cornerstone of ensuring optimal motor performance. Proper lubrication serves to reduce wear by maintaining separation between rolling surfaces, dissipating friction-induced heat, safeguarding against contaminants, averting corrosion, and...
Visual Inspections Can Help Avoid Issues, Unnecessary Maintenance Costs
Are you the kind of person that checks your vehicle’s oil level and quality between oil changes or do you just trust that the automotive manufacturer knows when your oil goes from “good” to “get an oil change now!” status? In the world of ever-evolving technology,...
Enhancing Safety: Effective Strategies for Arc Flash Mitigation
Safeguarding the well-being of your technicians while working on live electrical equipment demands the implementation of arc flash mitigation measures. As stipulated by the 2020 National Electrical Code, Section 240.87, these protocols are mandatory for circuit...
Reliability Maintenance Takes a Medical Approach to Rotating Equipment, Part 1 – A Prescription for Healthy Systems
Diagnosing, responding to, and preventing issues within rotating equipment proactively is the goal of reliability maintenance. While this industrial approach focuses on improving process productivity and increasing overall system efficiency and ROI, reliability...
Integrating a New Motor into Your System: Best Practices for Optimal Performance
Investing in a new motor is a substantial commitment that significantly impacts your business operations. Safeguarding this investment necessitates not only ensuring the initial seamless operation as promised by the manufacturer but also ensuring sustained performance...
Holistic Equipment Maintenance & Management, Part 2 – Turning Anomalies into Action
Building upon the “Are You and Your Assets Prepared” information provided by HECO Director of Reliability and Senior Reliability Engineer for HECO’s Predictive Service Group Jason Spettel’s insights in this first part of this series, we now turn to insights from...
Lubrication for Electric Motors and Rotating Equipment
While it’s evident that every electric motor or rotating equipment requires regular lubrication to operate efficiently, not all lubricants and lubrication systems are equal. For example, simple grease lubrication may suffice in some cases, while other situations...
Unlocking Performance with Medium Voltage Solutions: A Strategic Partnership Approach
In the realm of industry, professionals, engineers, and technicians are well-versed in the capabilities and limitations of low voltage (LV) drives. However, the benefits and potential of medium voltage (MV) drives remain less explored due to their less frequent...