ST. LOUIS, October 7, 2014 – Energy Management Corp. in Salt Lake City, Utah, has been approved as an EASA Accredited Service Center by the Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA).

EASA Accreditation of Energy Management Corp. means that the firm has successfully demonstrated that it follows the prescribed good practices to consistently deliver quality electromechanical repairs that maintain or improve AC electric motor efficiency and reliability.

“This achievement by Energy Management Corp. affirms the company’s commitment to excellence,” said Linda J. Raynes, CAE, EASA president & CEO. “EASA’s Accreditation Program, just launched this summer, offers external validation that the company adheres to good practices by submitting to an independent, third-party audit.”

The criteria for becoming EASA Accredited are based on ANSI/EASA AR100-2010: Recommended Practice for the Repair of Rotating Electrical Apparatus and The Good Practice Guide of The Effect of Repair/Rewinding on Motor Efficiency.

EASA is The Electro Mechanical Authority; an international trade organization consisting of nearly 1,900 electromechanical sales and service firms in 59 countries. See www.easa.com. EASA member companies provide repair, service and sales for the operation and maintenance of electric motors, generators, drives, controls, pumps and other electromechanical equipment. The Association provides members with direct technical support, the industry repair standard (ANSI/EASA AR100) and education, as well as technical, management and safety-related reference materials.

Energy Management Corporation is proud to work with EASA and to continue to remain EASA-accredited. EMC has offered quality motor repair services to local Utah customers for years and is excited to continue moving forward and advancing. Third-party auditing and a solid set of guidelines helps to increase communication between shop and customer and to make sure that results are a high quality.

For questions about how EASA-accreditation or the ANSI/EASA AR100 standard would apply to your motors, reach out and the EMC motor shop staff will be happy to answer.

With increased focus on environmental and energy conservation, Salt Lake City-based Energy Management Corporation was recently recognized by Rocky Mountain Power for their efforts in promoting energy efficient technologies. Energy Management Corporation (EMC) has operated in Salt Lake since 1979 and currently helps customers with VFDs, motors, generators, and related services.

Energy Management Corporation sells numerous energy efficient products. The product offering varies from NEMA premium efficient AC electric motors to energy-saving variable frequency drives (VFDs). Energy Management Corporation also offers engineering services to help correct on-site issues such as low power factor, harmonic distortion, and other electrical issues.

EMC also offers products that address electrical reliability and safety, including emergency standby generators, surge protection, and panel-buildups for VFDs and soft starters.

On Jan. 12, Energy Management Corporation received a certificate of outstanding performance through Rocky Mountain Power’s FinAnswer Express Program for premium efficiency motors, rating them as the highest performer among motor distributors.

Premium efficiency motors are specially designed to offer comparable horsepower as standard efficiency motors, but with higher efficiency and less environmental impact. They adhere to the NEMA premium efficiency charts and have minimum standards in order to qualify as a premium efficiency motor.

Rocky Mountain Power’s FinAnswer Express Program recognizes the importance of energy efficient motors and provides incentives to customers who purchase them. For information, visit rockymtnpower.net/utsave.

“Energy efficiency has always been important to us,” said Reid G. Oliver, sales manager at Energy Management Corporation. “We are happy to do our part in the community.”

Energy Management Corporation is happy to also maintain these motors for the long-term and help to maintain that efficiency through high-quality motor repair services with reporting and measurements. EMC also offers on-site services to maintain, troubleshoot, or evaluate and prolong the life of these premium efficiency motors.

There aren’t very many areas that see more population growth than Northern Utah. In fact, it is sometimes a struggle for the power company to keep up with the demand, especially in underdeveloped areas with older buildings.

One international retailer ran into this problem after relocating to an older building in West Jordan. Some employees had complained that the electronic cash registers were having problems and were not lasting long. The store had replaced a number of expensive registers before they deemed it a real problem.

After their electrical contractor made a careful examination, Energy Management Corporation’s power quality expert, Paul Rader, was called in to investigate.

Paul found that all of the electronic devices, including the registers, were supplied by an old distribution panel. It seemed that the constant on-and-off of the scanners, card-readers, and other electrical equipment was creating transients, or power surges and bursts, which pulsed through their system and damaged the equipment. Through analysis of the data collected, Paul found a problem with the neutral to ground in their old distribution panel.

Motor Drives International, the manufacturing division of Energy Management Corporation, built new panels with HS-120-10A transient voltage surge suppressors (TVSS) and installed them in place of the store’s old distribution panel. The panel fixed the neutral to ground problem and the TVSS equipment eliminated the transients.

With the 20 year warranty on the surge suppressor equipment and the support from Energy Management Corporation, the company doesn’t need to worry about the efficiency of their equipment. Energy Management Corporation focuses on creating solutions to problems for our customers, allowing them to focus on what is most important to them. Since the fix, the customer has been operating much more smoothly, and EMC is always close by to help again if needed.

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“We don’t provide part numbers, we provide solutions.” Energy Management Corporation has practiced this philosophy since 1979. The statement means that we do not simply choose the easiest and quickest solution to a problem, but we step back and look at the whole situation.

We take factors into account that other electric service companies may miss, and then we provide preventative maintenance services to assure that the equipment continues to work efficiently. In other words, we make the customer’s issue, our issue. That is what we did for one Springville, Utah, pharmaceutical company.

In 2005, the pharmaceutical company contacted Energy Management Corporation to purchase a Generac generator and have it installed at their facility. Bart Peterson, one of Energy Management Corporation’s top generator service technicians, surveyed the location that the generator was to be installed. He noted that it would be nearly impossible to set up an exhaust ventilation system because the area was too small and awkward. Trying to move forward as was proposed could lead to many issues including premature equipment damage and failure.

Bart designed and built a system that used the building’s utility water to cool the generator’s engine and keep the equipment from overheating. The system piped the water out of the utility water pipe, then into a heat exchanger, then through a series of copper pipes around the engine, and then back into the utility water pipe. This solution successfully and effectively kept the engine at an acceptable temperature without the need of an air-ducting system.

This solutions allowed the site to move forward with the generator that would work best for them while maintaining the backup and reliability that they needed.

EMC continues to do preventative maintenance on the generator. There have been no issues with the generator engine cooling system.

To see more about generators and services from Energy Management Corporation, click here!

Craig Hartman (Director of Energy) and Doug Stewart (Electrical Engineer) knew that retrofitting the plasma-cupola process with variable frequency drive (VFD) systems would improve Geneva Steel’s steelmaking capabilities. But they also knew there simply wasn’t enough room.

Sixteen VFD build ups and an I/O cabinet were needed, ranging from 25 through 60 horsepower. This was 235% more equipment than the eighteen feet of available space could accommodate. These VFD build ups are typically each placed in their own cabinet enclosure, taking up room that Geneva Steel didn’t have.

“If we had only used the number of VFD build ups the room allowed, then we wouldn’t have been able to save energy or improve precision,” said Stewart.

“And the cost of constructing a second building was enormous,” added Craig Hartman.

Then, Hartman and Stewart sat down with a team of engineers from Energy Management Corp., the local supplier of MDI Systems VFD packages.

“When they (Geneva Steel) explained the situation to us, we knew it was a perfect application for the MDI Systems VFD Power Center, with the ‘Slide-a-Drive’ option,” stated Steve Rossiter, President of Energy Management Corp.

EMC took the site requirements, the VFD sizing, and the needed space for cooling the equipment into consideration. By utilizing the MDI Systems Slide-a- Drive(TM) technology, they would be able to consolidate to fewer panels and conserve space that was not available on site.

The compact and more efficient system allowed Geneva Steel to fit sixteen VFD systems, each with 5% line reactors, and a two-foot I/O cabinet within an 18-foot span along the north (right) wall of this control center. This meant that the needed process control and energy savings could help Geneva Steel to improve their delivery on site.

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‘Total Electric Asset Management’ is found in numerous applications throughout commercial, industrial, process, manufacturing, and residential applications. It is found anywhere mechanical or electrical processes take place. It is very unusual for any one company to possess the needed capabilities for all equipment. Energy Management Corporation, however, is a very unique company. Energy Management Corporation (EMC) has many qualities and attributes that qualify it as the Premier Electric Asset Management Company in the Intermountain area; one of the key qualities is holistic preventive maintenance services.

Preventative maintenance services include monitoring and testing of electrical equipment to assure system optimization. Scheduled maintenance plans help extend the life of electrical equipment. It is especially important for ski resorts because their equipment is so heavily used during one part of the year and an electrical failure could cause a safety and sales threat. C.W. Silver has a preventive maintenance contract with many Intermountain ski resorts which drastically reduces the chance of failures happening.

In 2006, A major Utah ski resort installed a new ski lift. This lift was going to be heavily used, so it was important that it be working correctly. EMC was asked to test the ski lift motors for any potential problems. Because the ski resort had EMC to do preventive maintenance for many years, they knew that they could count EMC’s services.

After interpreting the test results, Gary Lucero, EMC’s motor service specialist, found that the motor foundation was not strong enough for the types of loads that were being created by the lift. After more testing, Gary Lucero was able to find that the ski lift’s drive-end bearings had started to fail and the motor foundation was loosening.

It was found that the motor foundation issues were caused by the ski lift’s design. The ski resort was able to use our test results as grounds to have the lift redesigned and fixed by the manufacturer. This meant that the motor was still under warranty, so there was no cost incurred. Had the ski resort not asked EMC to test the ski lift, it may have cost them a lot of money and possibly their customer’s safety.

The ski resort continues to use EMC as their total electrical asset managers, especially for preventive maintenance services.

To see more about motors and services from Energy Management Corporation, click here!

‘Total Electric Asset Management’ has many commercial, industrial, process, manufacturing, and residential applications. They are found anywhere mechanical or electrical process takes place. It is very unusual for any one company to possess everything needed to work on all types of processes. Energy Management Corporation, however, is a very unique company. Energy Management Corporation has many qualities and attributes that qualify it as the premier Electric Asset Management company in the Intermountain Area.

During a discussion with one of Salt Lake City’s largest candy manufacturers, Sales Manager Reid Oliver and Senior Account Manager Dave Petersen discovered an unusual application. It seemed that the candy manufacturer had a requirement to vary the speed of an older belt drive mixer. That mixer did possess the ability to vary speed, but doing so required totally disassembling parts and changing them with different parts to achieve desired speed.

The experts at Energy Management Corporation determined it was possible to engineer a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) system to change speeds at a touch with immediate adjustments. The VFD system is able to vary the frequency of the output electrical wave to the mixer motor and change speed without any mechanical adjustments or work. This meant less downtime and quicker changes as the process changed.

Energy Management Corporation made the changes to the mixer system to achieve the desired results. The mixer was delivered and the redesign was completed successfully. The manufacturer can now mix and change their batch without major downtime and labor issues.

As a result, a second unit was ordered and other belt drive machines were converted. This application was successfully taken from inception and design to an actual realization through follow-up, engineering proficiency, and manufacturing the finished product.

Most industries require a reliable source of electricity to run. They often backup their main electricity source with generators, hoping that in time of need, the alternative electricity source will suffice. When companies grow their facility beyond the capacity of their generators, problems can occur. One major electric power company in the northwestern United States experienced this issue.

The electric power facility required much more power than their 7kW Onan backup generator could offer. The generator was unable to back up their full electrical load, causing unacceptable downtime and leading to revenue loss. The company realized that something had to be done.

They contacted Bart Peterson, Energy Management Corporation’s top generator service technician, about the issue. Bart visited the location to do some testing and to evaluate the situation. It was found that not only was the generator too small for the facility, but the ATS (Automatic Transfer Switch) was set up in a way that made it extremely difficult to maintain and work with. It seemed that the main power was hooked to the ATS instead of the bypass connector, and this layout caused additional problems with their backup power.

Bart replaced the smaller 7kW Onan generator with a larger 20kW Generac generator, re-routed the main power through the bypass line instead of the ATS, and designed and built a custom exhaust system so that the larger generator would not overheat. This retrofit turn-key project was a success. The company asked Energy Management Corporation to upgrade their other facilities, which were met with similar success.

The major electric power company understands the importance of a reliable supply of electricity. Energy Management Corporation continues to work with them offering advice and service for less downtime and added reliability.

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No industry knows the importance of quality control like the aircraft industry. One small quality issue can be critical causing plane wrecks and even deaths. With so much at stake for a proper product, there is little room for error. This industry understands the importance of proper power quality and adequate surge protection against internal transients.

One particular prominent investment castings, machining, and assembly company had their product’s quality tried. One of their products is a steel pin used in manufacturing aircraft. These steel pins are run through a machine that tests them to meet very specific strength requirements. The data from the machine is analyzed by specialists to determine each pin’s quality.

The company’s steel division maintenance supervisor contacted Energy Management Corporation’s power quality expert, Paul Rader, with a power quality issue. Paul had previously worked with Steve on some power factor correction and understood the company’s needs.

It seemed that the company had recently relocated a gas, electric welder near the pin-testing equipment, which caused the data output to be garbled and unreadable. Paul Rader made a site visit and after doing some testing and asking questions, he determined that the welder was creating transients (RFI/EFI emissions) that were affecting the pin-testing equipment.

Paul suggested, modified, and installed an Innovative Technologies HS120-A transient voltage surge suppressor (TVSS). He then ran the welder for about 45 minutes, while a technician tested some pins. The test results were positive and the TVSS solved their problem. The TVSS had successfully filtered out the transients created by the welder.

With a 20 year warranty on the surge suppressor equipment and the support from Energy Management Corporation, The company can focus on the quality of their products. Energy Management Corporation focuses on creating solutions to problems for our customers, allowing them to focus on what is most important to them.