Storage
White Papers
Gaps in Your Electric Motor Reliability Program
Businesses invest millions of dollars in what they believe will be a fail-safe maintenance program for their electric motors. Regular tests are scheduled for each motor; engineers dutifully record the data when required and then move on to the next motor.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
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Lubricants Can’t Be Green … Can They?
Today, many want to “go green” in various aspects of their lives. The question is, what does this mean? It is typically meant to be a business or lifestyle choice to act in environmentally friendly ways...
- John Sander
- Lubrication Engineers
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Motor Storage
Proper motor storage is critical if we hope to achieve normal life expectancy from our electric motors. Not only is proper motor storage important for good motor health, it may be required to maintain a warranty on motors that we purchase..
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
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Embedded Sensor Platform with AI Algorithms—Locally from Big Data to Smart Data
Industry 4.0 applications generate a huge volume of complex data—big data. This naturally increases the potential for generating added value along the entire value chain. Only with relevant, high quality, and useful data—smart data—can the associated economic potential be unfolded...
- Dzianis Lukashevich
- ADI
Case Studies and Stories
The Journey to World-Class Storage & Handling – Basic American Foods
When Scott Fischer, Maintenance Manager, joined Basic American Foods, he recognized that the Blackfoot Basic American Foods plant was in need of a dedicated lubricant storage and handling process and products to support his reliability program goals.
- Mark Barnes
- Des-Case
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Technology Based Crane Monitoring and Diagnostics
Overhead cranes are often a single source cause of downtime in any manufacturing facility, especially when discussing those performing services in a steel mill’s melt shop. Often, these assets do not have redundancy that would allow for one to be taken....
- Stephen Bailey
- IVC Technologies
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The Trifecta of Motor Maintenance
Using the same concept of a trifecta (three factors for success), this article provides companies with the winning strategies of motor maintenance, focusing on the three reliability tasks for electric motor testing and the order in which they should be applied.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
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Cracking the ISO Code to Lubricant Cleanliness
So what does it really mean to increase lubricant cleanliness? We read various articles and textbooks that talk about how increasing the cleanliness of an in-service oil will increase the life of a component and the lubricant, but how do we make that happen...
- Mark Barnes
- Des-Case
Two Minute Tips
How Not to Store Your Lubricants
Why does our equipment fail? Because we kill it. Regular plant visits shown numerous examples of poor lubricant storage.
- Paul Dufresne
- Reliability Playbook
