Regarding Reliability of Electric Motors: ESA, MCSA, Rotor Bars, Shaft Fault and Bearing Wear
Things have changed since development of Electrical Signature Analysis and Motor Current Signature Analysis in the 1970s and ’80s. Learn what these tests can do now.
Implementing Precision Maintenance: Got Soft Foot?
Despite advances in tools and techniques, soft foot continues, unfortunately, to be an issue in some of today’s plants. The author discusses possible reasons why.
Revisiting Innovations: Coupling Hubs
Per the author, motivated engineers should constantly seek out information on component-upgrade options. Reliability and profitability can suffer when best-available technologies aren’t used.
Detective Maintenance
Anyone working around almost any type of plant equipment can become a “failure” detective. The late RCM icon John Moubray played a key role in developing this important concept.
Social-Density and Contact-Tracing Management
Emerson’s Location Awareness solution focuses in on worker safety and business continuity.
Lessons from NASCAR, An Old Monk, and ‘KISS’
“World-Class Simplicity” based on old teachings helped a racing team achieve remarkable levels of performance and reliability. Keeping things simple can do the same for industrial operations.
Managing Environmental & Social Sustainability Risks with Compatible Use Land Buffers
Ensuring that natural land surrounds industrial facilities is important in more ways than one. The risks from not doing so are enormous, as are the benefits when such buffers are in place.
Regarding Reliability of Electric Motors: What Makes Electrical Signature Analysis Different?
This test method was developed to find defects in motor-operated valves in the nuclear-power sector. Now, decades later, how is it working with other technologies, in other industries?
Make Work Orders Work: The Job Plan
Putting real meat on the bones of your site’s maintenance work orders means including accurate and adequate details and work instructions. These items are all crucial parts of “the plan.”
Revisiting Innovations: Compressor Valves and Steam Glands
Technology marches on in the process industries. Here, the author offers some personal observations on two value-adding advancements that have caught his eye in recent years.
