Raising the Bar: Your First Look at Motors@Work’s New Release

Last week, Motors@Work released v 4.0. Not to sound boastful, but in this release we have really upped our game to provide you advanced asset, reliability and energy intelligence on your motor-driven systems.

What’s new in v 4.0? Here’s the five changes that have me most excited:

1. Improved user interface

Motors@Work v 4.0 has a completely different look and feel. Our newly redesigned dashboards provide more actionable asset and energy intelligence data to help you make better informed motor management decisions. For example, our new asset-management-focused dashboard helps you understand the performance and demographics of your motor-driven capital assets, such as which motors need replacement for reliability reasons and which motors it’s beneficial to replace because of energy waste. Similarly, our energy-management-focused dashboard explores how your motors affect your utility bills and opportunities to lower your energy expenses. Meanwhile, the ‘Notifications’ and ‘My KPIs’ portlets on each screen provide quick views of key alerts and trends.

2. Enhanced IBM Maximo integration

Our new Energy and Reliability Scores are a 0-to-100 index that indicates the health and performance of your motor-driven assets, designed specifically for integration with Maximo Asset Management and Maximo Asset Health Insights (MAHI). A low Reliability Score means this asset needs replacement soon, while a low Energy Score means replacing this asset is cost-effective. These Scores are intended to facilitate a conversation between operations, maintenance, and energy management about how to improve your asset utilization.

3. Added temperature measurements and alerts

Heat can be one of the most damaging stressors your motors face, so Motors@Work now measures your motor and ambient temperatures and generates alerts if these temperatures surpass your motor manufacturers’ specifications.

4. Enriched pump optimization analyses

Version 4.0 expands our pump optimization analyses to consider multi-day pump demand scenarios. The enriched demand forecasts incorporate weather forecasts; asset performance, health, load & efficiency; and your local utility rate schedule to determine the lowest-energy-cost pumping schedule for multi-pump operations.

5. Expanded help facilities

To augment our users’ experience, Motors@Work v 4.0 includes greatly expanded online help resources. Our glossary covers every field on every screen throughout the application. How-to videos and quick-start guides walk users through common tasks. And improved troubleshooting tips help users make the most of our condition monitoring alerts.

Want to learn more? Contact us today to schedule a demo and see how Motors@Work’s advanced life-cycle asset, reliability and energy intelligence can improve your motor-driven systems.

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