Last week Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) announced that it has attained Superior Energy Performance® (SEP®) certification — making it the first water utility of more than 180,000 water utilities worldwide to achieve this designation. “By...
Read moreTroubleshooting series: Suboptimal load profile
It’s 2:49 pm, and this morning you went live with Motors@Work’s condition-monitoring service. You received a flurry of power-quality related notifications shortly after go-live. Now, your phone dings with a new notification: “Motors@Work detects...
Read moreTroubleshooting series: Voltage unbalance
It’s 2:35 pm, you’ve just gotten off the phone with me, and minutes ago we went live with Motors@Work’s condition-monitoring service. You’ve already received your first notification from Motors@Work on your cellphone via your EAM application...
Read moreTroubleshooting series: Power factor
It’s 3:37 pm — right between the lunchtime bulge and evening high-water-demand periods — when your EAM presents a notification from Motors@Work: “Motors@Work detects a declining power factor on High Service Pump #2.” “Why is Motors@Work sending...
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