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All organizations and their operations are in a state of flux. Things are continuously changing – assets, operating conditions, duty requirements, spare parts and componentry, technology and more all evolve, age and change. This change is constant. So why is it, then, that if operational environments are constantly changing, asset reliability strategies remain static? Why do so many organizations leave them in set-and-forget mode? Too often, reliability strategies are not given enough attention – even though reliability strategy is one of the biggest influencers of asset performance, and the deployment of an effective strategy presents a significant opportunity ...

Motor Current Signature Analysis (MSA) is one of the testing tools used to assess motor health, reliability and predictive maintenance. This tool allows professionals to establish a baseline and trend for P-F curve intervention to reduce motor failure and production downtime. The ideal tester should have the ability to do dynamic and static testing that is mean dynamic on line testing power quality, inrush current, current, voltage imbalance etc., This will also allow for testing polarization index resistive and inductive imbalances, quality control checks after receiving motors from repair. Other test than can be done through MSA include eccentricity air gap, ...