Revisit EASA's 2024 Convention & Solutions Expo by buying access to recordings of the general sessions and education events streamed from EASA's website! These recordings provide just over 32 hours of training. Downloadable PDFs of slides and technical papers are included!

Hear major manufacturers and suppliers share their perspectives on the issues challenging the electric motor industry. 

Findings from the from the fifth EASA research study conducted of end-user customers.

Revisit EASA's 2023 Convention & Solutions Expo by buying access to recordings of the general sessions and education events streamed from EASA's website! These recordings provide just over 32 hours of training. Downloadable PDFs of slides and technical papers are included!

Revisit EASA's 2022 Convention & Solutions Expo by buying access to recordings of the general sessions and education events streamed from EASA's website! These recordings provide almost 44 hours of training. Downloadable PDFs of slides and technical papers are included!

Presented at the 2022 EASA Convention, this study’s focus is wide ranging and explores general business practices, financial performance metrics, services, products and strategies around marketing and succession.

Revisit EASA's 2021 Convention & Solutions Expo by buying access to recordings of the general sessions and education events streamed from EASA's website! These recordings provide just over 22 hours of training. Downloadable PDFs of slides and technical papers are included!

This presenation fromthe EASA 2021 Convention focuses on motor manufacturers, suppliers and vendors critical to the industry.

Raising capital or selling a business is time consuming and requires significant preparation well before the first potential financing partner or acquirer is contacted. This presentation provides insights on that preparing for that process.

Despite the economic downturn, there is an abundance of private capital and continuing long-term interest from financial and strategic acquirers in quality businesses. As part of this presentation, England & Co. will ask a panel of non-control and control investors and acquirers along with a well-known ESOP attorney to explain key aspects of their particular transaction focus and provide their views on how the current downturn is likely to impact overall levels of transaction activity.

Solid middle-market businesses are vulnerable to revenue surprises and market volatility as the impact of COVID-19 on the economy is currently demonstrating. While the long-term prospects of your business may not be materially impaired by temporary decreases in customer demand, delayed projects or supply chain disruptions, the earnings impact can potentially trigger a default under performance-linked financial covenants with a lender.

Employees need help getting through these uncertain and unprecedented times. While it’s our job to provide guidance and encouragement, who is guiding and encouraging us?

Whether it is a simple re-application of a pump from 50 Hz to 60 Hz (or vice versa), the repurposing of an existing pump, or the application of a new pump to an existing application, determining the proper trim for an impeller can be challenging.

Centrifugal pump failures are most commonly attributed to seal failure, impeller damage and bearing failures. A good understanding of failure modes for seals, impellers and bearings is essential to providing customers with reliable pump repairs.

This highly-rated economist will discuss the leading economic indicators, which continue to be in chaos given the worldwide pandemic. He will recommend the best course of action for the most important part of the economy – you and your business.

In this 15-minute recording, the speaker addresses a very specific thing you can do to help employees through the changing times resulting from COVID-19.

This recording explores features of synchronous and switched reluctance machines.

The Evolution of Sales is not a new sales process – so you’re not starting over. Rather, it’s an evolution of how to identify opportunities and approach prospects in ways where your message is welcomed and appreciated – even in tumultuous times.

As a professional, you are contributing to your organization with exceptional skills required for your area of expertise. As a leader, you are contributing based on your ability to successfully fill four specific roles of leadership. In this 15-minute recording, the speaker takes a look at those four roles and how to fill the right role for each leadership situation.

Vertical motors differ from horizontal motors in numerous ways, yet some view them as “just a horizontal motor turned on end.” The obvious differences are the (usually) thrust bearings, with arrangements varying from single- to three-thrust bearings with different orientations suited for specific load, rpm and applications. Less obvious differences are in the ventilation arrangements, shaft stiffness, degrees of protection and runout tolerances. This recording will cover those topics.

The title says it all!! This highly-rated speaker on sales from the 2019 convention is back by popular demand.

In this 15-minute session, the speaker discusses what makes bad leaders bad and good leaders good, with an eye on person introspection of our own leadership abilities.

In 2003, EASA and AEMT (Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades in the UK) issued a report that proved rewinding motors in accordance with prescribed good practices would maintain efficiency and reliability. But in recent years, claims abounded that premium efficient motors could not be rewound without degrading efficiency. This recording discusses the latest EASA/AEMT research that included independent, third-party testing.

The internet is exceptionally good at one thing – providing data access. Similarly, computers which are the heart of the internet are good at dealing with data; they store data and analyze data. With the access to data provided by the internet and the storage and analysis capabilities of computers, results are possible now that could only be dreamed about in the prior century, (even if some of those dreams were nightmares).

The 2019 edition of EASA’s Industry Research, as presented at the 2019 EASA Convention, focuses on feedback from the end-user customer base. This research was conducted with the help of Plant Maintenance.

Revisit EASA's 2019 Convention & Solutions Expo by buying access to recordings of the general sessions and education events! Downloadable PDFs of slides and technical papers are included!

Learn how a fellow EASA service center interpreted different maintenance philosophies and put their own development in that curve. Their evolution has gone from workshop to predictive maintenance and beyond–to proactive maintenance, including 3D scan/print and the Internet of Things (IoT). 

This presentation addresses how technology and digitization are changing our understanding of value and the impact on technical service markets and businesses. It also gives pointers on how companies, particularly medium and smaller firms, can prepare for the (near) future.

Presented at the 2018 EASA Convention in Milwaukee, WI, this presentation takes a deeper look into the data from EASA's latest industry research project.

What is the Industrial Internet of Things, what growth stage is it in, and how might it impact the repair industry?

Over the past 15 years, EASA has conducted periodic research that has focused on many of the stakeholders and participants in the electromechanical repair, service and sales industry.  In early 2017, Indian River Consulting Group once again conducted research surveys of EASA repair firms. The results of those surveys show you the perspectives of fellow EASA members on a range of important subjects as well as the latest trends as well as perspectives from other industrial and distribution sectors. This research can help you to benchmark your company's results and strategies.

This recording is from the 2017 EASA Convention and covers the serious issue of counterfeit bearings and how to protect yourself and your customers from this threat.

This thought-provoking session presents the results of EASA 2014 industry research. Based on exclusive interviews with executives from global motor manufacturers, it provides key insights into the opportunities and challenges ahead for EASA members.

This paper, presented at the 2014 EASA Convention, addresses how reclosure happens and what measures can mitigate damage potential.

This paper, presented at the 2014 EASA Convention, covers theory of operation, inspection, operation, and troubleshooting tips for AC generators.

This paper, presented at the 2014 EASA Convention, describes research done by EASA service shops on the effectiveness and practicality of using offline partial discharge combined with a dielectrics characteristic test to evaluate the consolidation of stator windings in medium voltage machines manufactured by GVPI.

The impeller is generally the most difficult pump component to repair and the most expensive to replace. This paper looks at case histories of failed pumps and the steps to determine the cause of failure.

This technical paper from the 2014 EASA Convention focuses on AC motor redesigns involving speed changes.

This paper, originally presented at the 2014 EASA convention, deals with understanding IEEE Std 519 and various mitigation methods in order to meet those recommendations. It also reviews the types of filtering that is available to reduce the reflected waves, first turn insulation stress, and common mode voltages seen at the motor terminals.

This technical paper, presented at the 2014 EASA Convention, will help you understand how and why shafts and fasteners fail.

This paper, presented at the 2013 EASA Convention, presents a generic product quality planning process for industrial motor stator windings rated 13.8 kV. Emphasis is placed on analyzing gaps between a 4 kV rewind and a 13.8 kV rewind as they relate to stator winding design, insulation system validation and process control.

Increasingly, it is not enough to just “fix” that pump. Customers want and need to understand the “why” behind the failure. The pump failure case study walks you through that process.

This paper, presented at the 2013 EASA Convention, will examine Power Factor Tip-up and Partial discharge testing to assess stator winding conditions for motors rated 2300 V and above. Both tests will be evaluated for: effectiveness; which windings/types of machines the test is effective; set-up; interpretation and limitations.

Whenever an application engineer is planning on installing adjustable speed drives for AC motors, line current harmonics and reflected waves are two factors that need to be addressed. This paper, presented at the 2013 EASA Convention, deals with understanding IEEE Std 519 and various mitigation methods in order to meet those recommendations. It also reviews the types of filtering that is available to reduce the reflected waves seen at the motor terminals.

Even though they comprise a small portion of electric motors in service, wound rotor motors are disproportionately represented in EASA’s tech support call volume. There are several misconceptions about how they work. This paper will describe how they are applied and explain several simple but critical tests for the repairer.

The ability to measure machinery vibration is essential to machinery repair. But vibration is a complex phenomenon, with multiple parameters. So unlike temperature, pressure or other single parameter indicators, to use vibration as an effective machine condition indicator, technicians need more than simple meter and 5 minutes of instruction.

Vertical motors are unique in their ability to carry external thrust. The thrust bearings that make this possible require care in assembly and application for optimum service and performance. Oil bath lubrication in vertical motors is critical and must be understood and maintained correctly.

Is the induction motor the preferred answer in industrial drive applications? What is happening to the synchronous, DC and wound rotor motor (WRM) in those applications?

Learn from an industry veteran about safety topics you may think you know but that can cost your firm substantially if you’re not diligent.

This paper, presented at the 2013 EASA Convention, summarizes the accepted and other electrical tests required by motor and generator end users.