Taking data at face value can result in bad decisions for your physical asset management programs. In this white paper (circa 2017) MotorDoc LLC evaluated the electric motor studies on reliability from the earliest studies including the oft-misquoted 1983 EPRI study. Following a review of the data from the studies themselves the patterns for failure are not what are constantly published. Where did things change? Data science provides us a few answers. Enjoy!
Challenge Data: What did the motor studies really say?
