Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 21 Its the Economy Stupid and the Trades in 2026

We try the Starbucks Eggnog Latte then discuss the impacts and conditions surrounding 2025, including AI, policy decisions, and the impacts of all of them on small to medium businesses.…

MotorDoc Vlog 80 Electrical Machinery Forensics An Intro

The course we gave at the 2025 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference. The course starts with an overview of the RCFA process emphasizing the simple 5-why and complex analysis using PROACT.…
MotorDoc VLOG 59 Leaving Behind the Mess of 2024 and Heading into 2025

MotorDoc VLOG 59 Leaving Behind the Mess of 2024 and Heading into 2025

Well, we experienced a lot in 2024 from AI disasters to IoT lunacy within industry. However, MotorDoc and MotorDocAI continue to blaze forward through real-world applications, including the use of…
Podcast 54 Updates on Energy and Another EMPATH and EMPOWER Comparison with New Features

Podcast 54 Updates on Energy and Another EMPATH and EMPOWER Comparison with New Features

A quick discussion of the CIGRE meeting and other discussions related to energy and the grid to start. The discussion then goes on to demonstrate some of the changes in…

Podcast 49 The Innovation Lab Presentation on Energy and Emissions as Reliability and Maintenance KPI for the SMRP 2024 Cancelled Conference

Cancelling (or postponing) SMRP 2024 was a good call – The tropical storm turning to hurricane, Milton, is making its way to Florida.  Overall, everyone is giving positive feedback, United…
Podcast 40 Challenges from Marketing Related to Vibration and Electrical Signature Analysis a rant with Sasquatch

Podcast 40 Challenges from Marketing Related to Vibration and Electrical Signature Analysis a rant with Sasquatch

Went off on a rant related to some of the marketing fluff that appears to result in improper applications of vibration and other predictive maintenance technology. Discussion and demonstration of…
Podcast 34 Dangers of LLMs While Doing Some ESA Educational Content and the Content

Podcast 34 Dangers of LLMs While Doing Some ESA Educational Content and the Content

We ran into a few things with our favorite LLM including an attempt by the AI to include malicious code - not once or twice, but three times across multiple…

Podcast 29 Road Ramblings on Workforce including Interviews, New Generation, AI, ML, and the NE/IA SMRP Chapter

30 minutes of discussion related to workforce, loss of industry knowledge, interview experiences, and then a discussion of the AI/ML presentations at the NE/IA SMRP chapter meeting. https://youtu.be/--fR2JxaEJU