Caffeine and Chaos Episode 38 Energy and Emissions KPI to Save Your Job
As energy costs have gone way up and way down over the past decade, along with all of the stuff that goes along with it from transportation to production, office,…
Chaos and Caffeine Episode 37 Whats Really Happening to Your Bearings and Windings Rant
A tremendous problem is occurring in the industry that is resulting in bearing and winding failures throughout industry. This has to do with the misapplication and installation of variable frequency…
Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 35 Turbo Generator and Synchronous Motor Testing with EMPATH ESA and ATPro7
Two case studies using the ALL-TEST Pro 7 MCA and EMPATH Electrical Signature Analyzer on a turbo generator (confirmation of original findings) and a large 40-pole synchronous motor. Discussion of…
Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 34 Adventures in Clean Energy and Reliability at OMS 2026
A review of the March 4-6, 2026 American Clean Power OMS26 Conference including our pre-attendance at NAES with Hitachi and Joliet Electric and then having our partners support the MotorDoc…
Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 32 The Fragile Grid Why Electricity Is Getting More Expensive
https://youtu.be/X9xvBPkcyRI This episode dives straight into one of the most misunderstood issues in modern energy: what really happens when maintenance fails and why your electricity bill feels it. Recorded over…
Chaos and Caffeine Episode 29 Bridging the Gap from Theory to Real World Reliability
In this episode we will have ChatGPT Juniper as our co-host - a fun little experiment and an attempt to go by a script (not very well). We discuss the…
Chaos and Caffeine Episode 26 Condition Based Reactive Maintenance
When monitoring systems detect faults after they occur they are not condition-based nor are they predictive maintenance, they become condition-based reactive maintenance. In this episode we fall back on Deathwish…
Chaos and Caffeine Episode 25 EMPOWER Vibration and MCSA with Peppermint Mocha
A review of the upcoming EMPOWER-VIB vibration analysis system and the EMPOWER-MCSA current signature analysis system available the first week in January, 2026. Includes the new features for time to…
Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 23 Judys Coffee and the 12 Days of Reliability Christmas
Enjoying some Judy's Cafe coffee provided by our friends at Hitachi and Joliet Electric before sharing a few stories based on a generated 12-days of Christmas - well, ok, a…
Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 22 Holiday Coffee and the Real Purpose of the P to F Chart
We enjoy some chocolate and peppermint coffee while discussing the real original use of the P-F chart per Nowlan and Heap (https://motordoc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RCMOrig.pdf) and the expansion by Moubray in 'RCM II).…