Predictive Maintenance For Your Motors

Predictive maintenance: The Key to minimize downtime and keeping your operations RUnning

Predictive and preventative maintenance are two commonly used terms to describe ways in which equipment, cars, and just about any other asset, can be maintained. They are similar but represent two distinct concepts in managing equipment and ensuring its reliability.

Condition Monitoring

Condition Monitoring helps you check your equipment’s health, so you can know when it needs maintenance or repair before it breaks down.

These tools allow you to gain insight into why your motor is failing, or why it might soon fail.

Partial Discharge

Our Partial Discharge (PD) Monitoring services are designed to ensure the reliability and longevity of your electrical assets. Partial discharge can indicate potential insulation failures, which, if left unchecked, could lead to costly outages and damage. 

Key Benefits:

  • Early Detection: Identify potential issues before they escalate into significant problems.
  • Continuous Monitoring: 24/7 real-time data collection and analysis.
  • Comprehensive Reporting: Detailed insights and actionable recommendations.
  • Enhanced Asset Management: Improve maintenance planning and reduce unexpected downtime

Electrical Signature Analysis

Electrical Signature Analysis (ESA) primarily relies on monitoring the motor's electrical parameters (voltage and current). ESA detects anomalies by analyzing variations in the electrical waveforms generated by motors. ESA compares real-time data to the motor's expected operational model, identifying differences that may indicate mechanical, electrical, or process issues.

Key Benefits:

  • Real-Time Data Collection: Continuous monitoring of equipment conditions such as vibration, temperature, and more.
  • Predictive Maintenance: Anticipate and address issues before they lead to equipment failure.
  • Wireless Connectivity: Easy installation and integration with existing systems.
  • User-Friendly Interface: Access and analyze data through intuitive dashboards and mobile applications.
  • Cost Efficiency: Reduce maintenance costs by optimizing equipment performance and extending asset life.

Motion Amplification

Motion Amplification (by RDI Technologies) technology provides a revolutionary approach to visualizing and diagnosing mechanical issues. This method uses high-speed cameras and special software to make small movements and vibrations visible. These details are usually invisible to the naked eye.

Key Benefits:

  • Enhanced Visualization: See the precise movement and vibration patterns of your machinery.
  • Problem Identification: Quickly locate the source of mechanical issues.
  • Data-Driven Decisions: Use detailed visual data to inform maintenance and repair strategies.
  • Non-Intrusive Monitoring: Conduct thorough diagnostics without shutting down your equipment.

EL CID Testing

EL CID (Electromagnetic Core Imperfection Detection) testing is a crucial service for assessing the integrity of generator stator cores. This testing method finds problems without damaging equipment, ensuring it runs safely and efficiently.


Key Benefits:

  • High Sensitivity: Detect minor imperfections that other methods might miss.
  • Fast and Reliable: Quickly assess the condition of your stator core with minimal downtime.
  • Accurate Diagnostics: Detailed analysis and reporting to guide maintenance and repair decisions. You can compare future results to previous results to identify trends.
  • Preventive Maintenance: Helps in planning and scheduling necessary interventions to prevent unexpected failures.
  • Versatility: Unlike the previously used LOOP Test, No Power source is required. 

Conventional Machine Monitoring Preventative Maintenance

Preventative maintenance is essential for maintaining the health and efficiency of your machinery. By regularly checking and analyzing the performance of your equipment, you can detect problems early and prevent costly breakdowns.

Preventative maintenance includes analyzing vibrations, conducting PdMA testing, and performing Leap Testing.

Vibration Analysis

Vibration analysis helps identify issues such as imbalances, misalignments, and bearing problems in rotating equipment.

Key Benefits:

  • Early Problem Detection: Spot issues before they lead to equipment failure.
  • Detailed Reports: Receive comprehensive reports with actionable insights.
  • Improved Maintenance Planning: Plan maintenance activities based on accurate data.

PdMA Testing

PdMA testing checks the health of electric motors and their parts. This helps you do maintenance based on their condition, not just on time.

The main benefit of this testing method is that it helps check quality and trends. It also aids in finding problems and making decisions.

Key Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Diagnostics: Assess the health of motors, including insulation, power quality, and electrical imbalances to ensure that the highest quality motors are in service.
  • Preventive maintenance:
    checking the health of the motors. This helps find problems before they happen. By doing this, we can plan maintenance on time. This prevents unplanned expensive shutdowns.
  • Diagnostic troubleshooting: helps find problems in a circuit. It uses a tool to focus on a specific part or component of the motor circuit.

ABB LEAP Testing

ABB Leap Testing (Life Expectancy Assessment Program) measures the performance and efficiency of your machinery under load conditions. ABB LEAP analyzes and provides clear information about the stator health and life expectancy.

This approach significantly minimizes unexpected shutdowns by addressing failures from factors like thermal, electrical, environmental, or mechanical aging, which we could have anticipated.

Key Benefits:

  • Optimize maintenance planning on electrical machines by moving from time-based to condition-based maintenance.
  • Helps extend machine lifetime, allowing for budgets to be allocated more appropriately
  • Assists in short- and long-term maintenance planning
    Minimizes unplanned downtime
  • Provides better information for estimating lifecycle cost

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