Technical Maintenance Memos™ Draw on NEC's Extensive Experience With Generator Maintenance

We listen to our customers. When we hear more than one or two generator owners concerned about some aspect of generator maintenance, we respond with a Technical Maintenance Memo on that topic. Owners wishing to improve their maintenance programs will find our TMMs™ useful in fine-tuning their maintenance procedures. Engineers new to generator maintenance can use them to bone-up on critical issues.

Technical Maintenance Memos™

Our Technical Maintenance Memos (TMMs) are available online through our "members only" Technical Library. Our service managers can also assist you in finding the document relevant to your needs. Below is a brief list of some of the topics that are discussed. New topics are added frequently and older ones updated regularly.

• Our TMM™ on Data Banking discusses the benefits of allowing NEC to take data on your generator unit during its next planned outage.
• Turbogenerator Balancing can include running electrical tests and thermal sensitivity testing.
• Fatigue Cracking in Generator Windings
• Generator Contamination Issues
• Exciter Maintenance Issues
• Foreign Object Damage in Generators
• Partial Discharge
• Retaining Ring Stress Corrosion Cracking
• Turbogenerator Maintenance Issues
• Generator Stator Maintenance Issues

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

NEC's Director of Product Development, Bill Moore, is well-known in the industry for his articles, presentations and seminars on Generator Maintenance. He often hears from plant engineers who have not had the opportunity to see what specific problems look like. READ MORE.