Researchers have the potential to be exposed a wide variety of hazards inherent equipment they use and maintain. When does not function as expected, researchers sometimes reach out their vendors for assistance. Early diagnostic or troubleshooting interactions between researcher vendor are often conducted over telephone can lead performing work outside area expertise exposure unknown hazards. Th...

Condition monitoring has a great potential for enhancement in the reliability of operation, machine up-time, reduction in consequential damage and improving operational efficiency at lower operational cost. In electrical equipment incipient faults are often characterized by variations in temperature, vibro-acoustic signature, etc. Different condition monitoring techniques use dedicated sensing ...

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