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When setting up a new woodworking workshop, most entrepreneurs first draw up a machine list: band saw, planer, thicknesser, spindle moulder, circular saw and an extraction system. ... More Details

In textiles, quality is most often lost in a moment that the eye cannot see: the moment the yarn breaks. When a yarn breaks, it is not only that one machine that stops; the operato... More Details

When ordering an electric motor, most plants look only at power, speed and connection type. Yet ordering the motor on its own means completing just half of the investment. On the d... More Details

In the same plant, two electric motors that often stand side by side work in two entirely different load worlds and need two completely different buying decisions. In a plastic inj... More Details

The most common mistake in choosing a reducer is making the decision on purchase price alone. Yet a reducer generates cost not by the price you pay on the day you buy it, but by th... More Details

When a new electric motor comes off the truck, most operations carry it straight to the warehouse or assembly area, thinking "it's new anyway, nothing will go wrong." Yet the journ... More Details

In agriculture the calendar cannot wait. In a factory, if a line comes online a day late the production plan shifts but can usually be recovered; in farming, the seasonal window is... More Details

At a mine, time is the most unforgiving component of cost per ton. When the motor driving an ore conveyor stops, it is not only that belt that goes idle; the crusher feeding it, th... More Details

At a three-shift plant, an electric motor lives a completely different life from its counterpart at a single-shift operation. A motor running over 8,000 hours a year consumes in a ... More Details

The most expensive form of a motor appears not on its price tag, but at the moment it fails and has no spare. At midnight a line stops, the shift supervisor reaches for the phone a... More Details

A motor purchasing decision is usually reduced to a single number: the invoice amount. Yet the real cost of an industrial electric motor or gearbox lies far beyond that invoice. Pl... More Details

There is a world of difference between ordering a 132-frame, 7.5 kW motor and ordering a 315-frame, 132 kW motor for a plant. The first can be lifted onto a shelf by hand, tossed i... More Details

When an electric motor that has run flawlessly in a plant for years finally burns out, the purchasing engineer almost always faces the same question: "This motor's brand is no long... More Details

Marble and granite processing plants are among the harshest operating environments for an electric motor. This is because in stone processing, cutting is almost always done with wa... More Details

When building a low-speed, high-torque drive, a classic question arises: should you buy a single-piece geared motor from the factory, or is it better to combine a separate motor wi... More Details

Even in a medium-sized building project, mechanical services require far more fan motors than most people expect. Air handling units, exhaust fans, fresh-air supply blowers, jet fa... More Details

When a booster pump stops, the first instinct is to replace the entire set. Yet in the great majority of booster failures the pump hydraulics, meaning the impeller, the volute casi... More Details

In industry the most expensive motor is not the one with the highest price tag; the most expensive motor is the wrong one. A motor whose feet won't seat on the chassis, whose shaft... More Details

When a conveyor belt motor fails, the situation is far more serious than a single machine stopping. The conveyor is the backbone of a production line; when that belt stops, all the... More Details

When buying an electric motor, the topic of warranty is brushed over in most talks with a single sentence: "two-year warranty." This sentence gives the buyer confidence, and usuall... More Details