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The importance of precise and accurate measurements is more critical today than ever. Our customers are increasingly demanding of best possible practices and outcomes when having their machinery serviced and repaired. The ideas and information presented here are applicable to other mechanical measuring devices such as inside micrometers, calipers, protractors, levels, depth gauges and such.

En este artículo trataremos los micrómetros exteriores. Sin embargo, las ideas y la información aplican a otros dispositivos de medición, tales como: Micrómetros de interiores, calibradores, transportadores, niveles, galgas de profundidad, etc.

There are plenty of generic mobile device policies floating around the web. Sadly, many of them focus heavily and narrowly on the disadvantages of team members having personal devices at their workstations. Too often organizations take the path of excluding mobile devices from the work area because it’s easy rather than reaping the benefits they offer.

Existen muchas políticas genéricas sobre el uso de los dispositivos móviles flotando en internet. Dependiendo del entorno particular y de las herramientas utilizadas, es razonable y responsable evaluar los riesgos potenciales para la seguridad y la protección. Sin embargo, con mucha frecuencia, las organizaciones toman el camino de excluir los dispositivos móviles del área de trabajo porque es una medida fácil, en lugar de aprovechar los beneficios que ofrecen.

It happens to just about every EASA service center. A machine shows up for repair; it has leads, and there’s a motor, but the machine is a pump. Most often, it’s a close-coupled pump or a submersible pump. If your response is, “We don’t work on those here,” because you’re thinking, “We don’t know anything about repairing pumps,” you may be turning your back on some very profitable work.

Esto sucede en casi todos los centros de servicio de EASA, aparece una máquina para reparación, con cables y un motor, pero es una bomba. A menudo es una bomba sumergible o de acoplamiento cerrado. Si su respuesta es: “Aquí no reparamos estos equipos” y está pensando: “Nosotros no sabemos nada sobre reparación de bombas” puede que le esté dando la espalda a un trabajo muy rentable.

In March of 2019, EASA conducted an in-depth survey to better understand how end users decide between repairing or replacing electric motors and to identify electric motor repair/replacement trends. Internet-enabled condition monitoring has been a hot topic recently and, as a result, questions related to this were added to the list of survey questions. The survey returned some very interesting results about internet-enabled condition monitoring.

Flooding in the aftermath of tropical storms (hurricanes, monsoons and cyclones) with heavy rainfall will often shut down hundreds of plants along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas and other places around the world. To get them up and running again, maintenance departments and motor repairers face the daunting task of cleaning muck and moisture from many thousands of electric motors and generators. The process in such situations can take weeks, if not months, and requires special clean-up procedures for motors contaminated by saltwater.

A menudo, las inundaciones producidas por las intensas lluvias de las tormentas tropicales (huracanes, monzones y ciclones) colapsan cientos de plantas industriales a todo lo largo de la costa del golfo de México, desde la Florida hasta Texas y en otros lugares del mundo. Para retomar las actividades productivas, los departamentos de mantenimiento y los reparadores enfrentan la difícil tarea de limpiar la suciedad y desalojar la humedad en miles de motores y generadores eléctricos. El proceso en tales situaciones puede tomar semanas o meses y requiere procedimientos especiales para limpiar los motores contaminados con agua salada.