It’s common to find pump impellers with significant surface damage. The three most common causes of surface damage are erosion, corrosion and cavitation. For each of these there are characteristics which will help indicate the primary cause of the damage.

Before you establish your marketing budget, there are a few questions your organization needs to consider to ensure expectations are clear and your budget will cover your plans for the year.

This webinar describes the best practice for fitting sleeve bearings in an electric motor. 

This article uses examples to illustrate some of the pitfalls and subtle aspects regarding windings with unequal coil grouping.

All of us in the industry are struggling with workforce issues. Not only are we feeling the effects of labor shortage, but we are also feeling the effects of how our current workforce isn’t getting any younger. The leadership team at Hibbs ElectroMechanical, Inc. has made it a priority to confront these issues and find a proactive solution, just like we do for our customers. The answer: be involved.

The EASA community has long been one of its greatest strengths regardless of your membership category. The beauty of social media is that you’re speaking to a worldwide audience and your online activity can benefit both your business and EASA.

This discussion highlights EASA’s overview guide on remote condition monitoring and answers questions from members on the booklet and, and remote condition monitoring in general.

One of the more mundane things we as repairers must be concerned with is motor storage. For many of us, storing large motors for major customers is its own profit center. For all of us, being aware of how our customers store the motors we repair and send to them is critical to customer satisfaction. A poorly stored motor is likely to suffer winding or bearing failure, and we don’t want unrealistic warranty claims over something outside our control.

Motors Drive Success is a free, turnkey PowerPoint presentation that introduces the electromechanical repair industry to the uninitiated. It comes with completed slides and a script, but you can customize both.

Most AC stator windings installed by EASA service centers are balanced, three-phase, two-layer, lap windings. But, what does it mean for such a winding to be balanced?