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Get your bearings: Electric motor lubrication 101

How often should electric motors be lubricated? How can you be sure you’re using the right amount? Here’s your primer.
How to protect bearings and extend motor life

Compound labyrinth seals prevent contamination of bearings and bearing lubricants.
Back to basics: Fundamentals of motor testing

A balance of static and dynamic testing will help prevent catastrophic (and costly) motor failure.
Bearings are not boring

Sheila Kennedy says bearings are getting tech-focused updates.

The trifecta of motor maintenance

Posted: Mar 26, 2015

This white paper 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.
The bottom line about gearing

Posted: Mar 05, 2014

This white paper provides an analysis of efficiency as it relates to the type of gearing used and the number of gear stages.
New PdM technologies for on-line motor maintenance

Posted: Aug 05, 2013

Author: Ernesto Wiedenbrug, Ph.D.

This white paper presents an overview of some of the most common preventive maintenance issues found in the field, and relatively new technologies now being applied to address those issues.
Improved diagnosis of problems with critical VFD motor/machine systems

Posted: Jul 31, 2012

Author: E. Wiedenbrug, Consulting Engineer, SKF USA, and M. Sanford, Software Engineer, SKF USA

VFD motor/machine systems introduce a number of challenges that, for many organizations, will cause system failures until they adopt modern dynamic motor monitoring tools.

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