Electric Motor Repair Blog

An anti-friction bearing race unexpectedly cracked on your electric motor, leading to a catastrophic failure, emergency shutdown, downtime, and lost productivity -- not to mention the expensive repairs involved. Is there a way to detect impending failures before they...

What is the Cost of NOT Doing Scheduled Reliability Maintenance? The global predictive maintenance market is expected to grow rapidly from $4.5 billion in 2020 to $64.3 billion in 2030, according to consulting group NextMSC. This serves as evidence that more and more...

Finding the most suitable electric motor enclosure type for your application can save you money, enhance motor performance, and extend the life of your motor. But how do you know what enclosure type you need? Why It’s Important to Choose the Right Enclosure Type We...

You can avoid costly repairs by ensuring you aren’t combining incompatible greases on your electric motors. Keep in mind that grease works differently from oil, even though both act as lubricants. Because of its thickness, grease can stay on surfaces despite gravity...

    Case Study: Successful asset condition management saves valuable production hours. Proper asset condition management including vibration analysis, outage planning and repair execution can exponentially save your company time while contributing to your...

      What You Need to Know About Ultrasonic Testing Ultrasonic testing can be an invaluable part of a predictive maintenance program. And it is important to understand the basics of the ultrasonic testing and how it can benefit you and the facility you are...

Explosion Proof Electric Motors: Class, Groups & Divisions Explosion Proof Motors To understand what explosion-proof really means for electric motors, you need to be familiar with the two basic scenarios related to motor explosions. The first involves the surface...

New oil is always the best for your bearings, correct? Most new oil in a drum may not be as clean as you think, and you need to know why and what you can do about it. I always assumed that new oil was clean oil--until I started working with a customer who was having...

Prevent Electric Motor Failure with Predictive Maintenance Is predictive maintenance just a fad that’s trying to sell expensive, complicated equipment to production and manufacturing companies, or is it an effective maintenance paradigm? We know that motor failure,...

If motors are exposed to ambient vibration during storage, damage to bearings (such as false brinelling) can result. Ambient vibration can affect the motors when they are stored in close proximity to rail lines, production floors, and busy roads; if the motors cannot...