Five Minute Facts
Aluminum Complex Thickener Greases
Lubricant has the power to increase equipment uptime and enhance bottom line profitability.
- John Sander
- Lubrication Engineers
Electrical Insulation Failure
Electrical Insulation is used to direct current through a desired path and prevent it from flowing where it is not desired. Proper electrical insulation is critical to an electric motor’s performance and longevity. Insulation breakdown is one of the most frequent causes of electric motor failure. In electric generators, for instance, 56% of failures originate from electrical insulation damage.
- Mark Koch
- ALL-TEST Pro, LLC
Gear Box Failure on Cooling Tower Induction Motor Fan
The large motors in this power plant are attached to a gear box, which is attached to a cooling fan inside the cooling tower. All components are enclosed inside a shroud, making a visual inspection difficult and costly. A knocking noise, possibly coming from inside the shroud, was detected. But was it the motor or the gear box? Watch the video to learn how the problem was analyzed without disassembling the shroud.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
RAM for Business Integration and Resilience Evaluation
Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM) is a decision-support tool. One of its features can be used for a business integration and resilience evaluation…
- Rami Al-Shneiber
- Aramco
Condition Monitoring Technologies – Pros and Cons of the Top Five
There are several different technologies that can be used, alone or in combination, to monitor the condition of your machinery from a predictive maintenance (PdM) perspective. The criticality of the machine affects the number of such inspection-type technologies that are applied to a given failure mode. The more critical the machine and the more critical the failure mode, the more redundancy you will want in the inspections.
- Timothy Weilbaker
- Allied Reliability, Inc.
Trending DC Field Inductance in an Aluminum Mill Coil Motor
A critical 600 hp motor was redesigned to 750 hp and was running at 900 hp, which created excessive heat. To avoid catastrophic failure, motor was tested every three weeks. The Megohmmeter reading was normal, so how did they know there was a problem? Watch this video and learn.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
RAM Study During Different FEED Phases
Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM) is a decision-support tool. Let’s go through some occasions in which RAM is implemented in different lifecycle stages of a facility…
- Rami Al-Shneiber
- Aramco
How Can RAM Help This Compression Unit?
A compression unit consists of several components and can experience many types of asset interruptions, all of which impact your availability. Our RAM model can predict the facility production deliverability…
- Rami Al-Shneiber
- Aramco
Troubleshooting a Failed Induction Motor
The vibration team suspects a problem with a critical motor at a large pulp and paper facility. Watch this video and learn how the MCEMAX was used to diagnose a significant rotor fault and avoid a $120,000 cost.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
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