Modal Testing of Pump Bearing Housings
By Cliff Knight, KnightHawk Engineering
Pumps are subject to many sources of excitation. If you are lucky you can avoid some of them, but some...
Extending the Life of Precision Components in Demanding Applications: Part 2...
As we saw in part 1 of this series, bearings, gears, rollers, and other precision components can experience excessive wear in applications with metal-to-metal...
What Is Three Minutes of Motor Testing Worth to You?
Motor testing is among the most common yet underutilized diagnostic and measurement tools that yields an incredible return on investment. The following case study...
Protecting Critical Pump Motors with Automatic Notification
By Jeff Elliott
Although municipal and industrial process engineers have streamlined the monitoring and control of critical equipment through SCADA systems and other means of...
Drive-based Functional Safety
Today, new drive technology is making the previously complicated job of implementing a machine safety system much easier. Recent technical advances make safer operation...
Vibration monitoring that anyone can afford: Part 2 of 2
see Part 1 here
In last month’s installment of this series, we discussed how vibration monitoring is an affordable and reliable component for almost any...
Carbon Brush Redesign Solves Commutation Problem
Though DC motors may not be the latest state-of-the-art in technology, many railway and transit operators will trust in its reliability for many years...
Unique Motor Control in the Harshest Environments
In oil fields around the globe, a giant silhouette can be seen methodically and rhythmically raising its head into the sky and dropping back...
Fuel savings that don’t sacrifice power
In Queensland’s Darling Downs region in Australia, fifth-generation farmer Chris Arthur runs Riverlea Cotton, a large-scale irrigation and broadacre farming operation in Dalby. With...
An industry inflection point
As many companies wrestle to extract full value from their digital transformation efforts, the limitations of today’s automation architecture are being realized. Technology stacks...









