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  • Continuous Improvement
  • Defect Elimination
  • Precision and Proactive Skills

Rosemary’s Car: How NOT to Treat Your Machines

Sometimes routine maintenance gets overlooked, as in the case with my friend’s car…

Five Minute Facts
  • Condition Monitoring
  • Defect Elimination

Advantages to Dynamic Balancing

Imbalance is a leading cause of excessive machine/rotor vibration. It can be an inherent result of rotor design or construction. Imbalance can occur due to routine wear or damage...

  • Chris Keniston
  • ERBESSD INSTRUMENTS
Interviews
  • Defect Elimination

Motion Amplification in Action: A Closer Look

Jeff Hay, the CEO of RDI Technologies, discusses Motion Amplification; a camera based technology invented by RDI. Jeff believes that the camera is the sensor of the future because visualization is faster, safer, and makes the complex more simple. Since starting RDI, he has created and patented multiple methods for using camera technology to visualize and measure motion.

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  • Defect Elimination

Cost Avoidance Within the Infrared World

Who does cost avoidance? What is it? Where would you apply it? Why would you worry about it? These are the questions that one should ask themselves. Most of the time is spent doing the physical work and analyzing that data to determine the condition or health of the equipment rather than thinking what our group did to save the company money. This article explains the methodology we used and why you should care about cost avoidance.

  • Patricia Warner
  • Cummins Inc.
Two Minute Tips
  • Defect Elimination

How to Troubleshoot a Variable Speed Drive and Motor Circuit

Do you have a Drive that’s tripped and you don’t know if it’s the Motor? A variable speed drives (Variable frequency Drive) are often built with current transformers monitoring each phase for current balance or over current, and will trip on a predefined limits.

  • Mark Gurney
  • 3Phi Reliability
Five Minute Facts
  • Defect Elimination

What Are the Costs and Effects of Poor Power Quality?

Alan Ross, president of EPRA, gives an overview of the causes of poor power quality, the sectors that are most affected, and the cost of outages…

Two Minute Tips
  • Defect Elimination

Reliability Centered Lubrication May Turn Out to be Your Best Investment so Far

Many issues with industrial assets are inextricably connected to lubrication. Too little lubrication, too much or simply using the wrong product.

  • Wouter Bogaerts
  • I-Care Group
Two Minute Tips
  • Defect Elimination

Condemning a Motor Using MCA™

Experience has shown that 20 to 40 percent of motor systems tested may have some sort of alarm condition. Just because a motor has exceeded the alarm limits in MCA Basic™ or MCA PRO™ it does not necessarily mean the motor will fail or should be stopped immediately. For over 30 years the dedicated staff at ALL-TEST Pro have gathered data and resources to determine when a motor will most likely fail on the most common 3-phase squirrel cage motors.

CONNECT Conversations
  • Defect Elimination

Tools RCM

Reliability Centered Maintenance is a reliability tool used to develop a complete and comprehensive maintenance strategy based failure modes and the context and environment in which you operate the equipment. RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) has been around since the mid-60’s, and if effectively applied in an ideal world would lead to exceptional reliability. In fact, RCM has been applied very effectively in the airlines and nuclear industries - both have potentially enormous consequences in the event of an unplanned failure.

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