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The Big Four Factors Affecting Motor Health

Tips for improving the efficiency and reliability of your motor-driven systems

  • May 2022
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Matthew Conville, MBA, PE
EASA Technical Support Specialist

Balancing plant maintenance costs and activities with the need to achieve production goals is a daily challenge for most maintenance professionals. Since the motor-driven system is often a critical component in this dynamic, let’s look at some best practices to help it achieve those goals and meet customer demands.

To plant maintenance pros in most industries, these are familiar questions:

  • “How do we improve reliability within our plant?”
  • “How can we reduce unplanned downtime, so our production stays more consistent?”
  • “How can we decrease our total cost of ownership of our equipment?”

They phrase it differently, but ultimately each of these questions is about improving the efficiency and reliability of the motor-driven system. Although that encompasses a wide range of components including fans, pumps, and drives, here we’ll focus on the electric motors.

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