Anatomy of an Efficient Motor Repair - Ensuring Efficiency and Reliability in Rewound Motors

by Howard W. Penrose, PhD

A motor repair customer must work closely with a motor repair center to ensure that the equipment sent out for rewind repair is handled in a manner that does not reduce efficiency or reliability.

Until the mid-1990s, the subject of AC induction motor rewind had been carefully skirted. However, with the advent of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct ‘92), the subject was thrust forward. By now, repair versus replace decisions have become business as usual within maintenance organizations, including the consideration of energy efficiency and the impact through electric motor rewind.