Monthly Checklist for Extending life of your Electric Motors.

How do you extend the life of your electrical equipment? Do you have a housekeeping plan in place? Implement these basic plans, and maximize your equipment to have better performance and longevity. What you will get from this article? What mandates are required, how to engage in power savings, and what to do to extend the life of your equipment.

?Occupational Safety and Health Administration(OSHA) Making Organizations aware of hazards, promoting best practices, and providing a safe and healthful workplace are required to putting a plan in place for maintenance. This can affect what tasks maintenance needs to perform; how supplies are stored; and what safety measures must be taken before, during, and after repairs.

Regulations Lockout/Tagout

Does your team have LOTO procedures in place? It is vital to ensure your workplace safety. Lockout/Tagout procedures save 50,000 injuries a year over 120 facilities. It should be done any time someone must install, construct, set up, adjust, inspect, modify, maintain, or service a machine or piece of equipment, enter areas with moving parts, or reach into a machine to examine, adjust, or remove a part.?

• Prepare with a plan - posted to the wall, signed off on, and making everyone aware of the maintenance that is taking place on the same said equipment. LOTO equipment and inform personnel. This is vital; Think, plan, and check everything before and during the process.
• Shutdown- Following the equipment shut down guidelines, and powering things off should be completed. Check to make sure that all aspects of the machine have been powered down. Isolate the hazardous energy, forms include; electrical, pneumatic, mechanical energy, and any other power sources. All equipment needs to make sure the energy sources are isolated to prevent injuries.

Electrical Savings - The savings associated with an ongoing motor maintenance program could range from?2% to 30%?of total motor system energy use.

1. Tracking program, to evaluate all equipment
2. Proactive repair/ replace decisions
3. Consider spare inventory for the equipment that is key to your industry.
4. Guidelines for purchasing, repair and implementation of predictive and preventative maintenance programs.

Premium Efficient North American Electric Motors reduce energy costs, ?through improved design, better materials, tighter tolerances, and improved manufacturing techniques. Premium-efficient motors are best when replacing motors?exceeding 2,000 hours annually. A new motor may be a better choice if the rewinding costs exceed more than 60% of the costs of a new motor.

Cost Effective and Energy Savings products from LS Electric America VFDs can typically generate energy savings between 7% and 60% with estimated simple payback periods ranging from 0.8 to 2.8 years. We can give you examples of some of our largest customers' power savings and we can run an energy audit to show you what your potential savings would be with aligning yourself with our quality products, as well as how we can extend the life of your equipment.

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