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Locate, Analyze, and Identify Automation Control and Communication Issues
Evaluate electrical, power-quality, and mechanical performance of motors to help predict failure and avert downtime. Quickly and easily measure and analyze key parameters – power, harmonics, unbalance, motor speed, torque, and mechanical power – without the need for mechanical sensors.
Why you should add motor analysis to your maintenance routine
Power quality recording and analysis: Techniques and applications
A motor's heat signature tells you a lot about its quality and condition. Use thermal imaging to see when motors and associated controls are operating too hot. Then, troubleshoot and track the specific failed component at fault. In addition, check for phase imbalance, bad connections, and abnormal heating on the electrical supply.
Automation and process control equipment requires clean, noise-free signals in environments that are often not so signal-friendly. Fluke oscilloscopes and digital/thermal multimeters expose defects in industrial electrical and electromechanical equipment, collecting and archiving critical test information along the way.
Lost production time means lower output, which can be pricey. Downtime is magnified in process plants, because an entire batch of products can be ruined if an outage occurs at a critical process point. Fluke 773/772/771 process tools measure signals on live devices without breaking the loop – a big deal for troubleshooting transmitters, valves, and PLCs.
Using loop power for process instrument and 4-20 mA loop testing
Harmonics Standards: What are they and how can you use them?