Brake Motor Upgrade
We were recently asked to engineer a brake motor upgrade solution for a customer who had issues with his brake motors that were continually failing in production. The motors were used in a brick packaging application. In this instance, the customer was suffering from premature brake failure with the existing brake motors. The fault was […]
Replacement DC Motor
We recently received a Siemens DC motor from a customer that had failed in service. Upon dismantling and fully inspecting the motor we found that it had failed in a catastrophic manner. We did not need to use any test meters or our Baker tester as the damage was obvious with a large hole in […]
Why Do Electric Motors Fail?
Electric Motor Failure Case Study Why do electric motors fail? This week we are looking at a major electric motor failure that occurred recently with a customer’s machine in a steel production plant. Incoming motor for repair The motor had been flagged as beginning to sound noisy by the maintenance team. However, due to production […]