Wind Turbine hose assemblies play an integral role in the health and performance of your gearbox. Without robust hose assemblies designed to handle the harsh additives in gearbox oils, you run the risk of premature hose leaks, cracks, and failures. All too often, a failed hose assembly is discovered after gallons of oil have spilled [read more…]
In this episode of the Kurz Wind Podcast, we were joined by Tom Ulery of Parker Hannifin. Tom works out of Cleveland, Ohio and is a massive Lebron James and Post Malone fan. Tom has been at Parker for 39 years and currently holds the role of Business Development Manager for Renewables. Here is what [read more…]
For those of you who are familiar with electric motors, most people think of the std horizontal mounted motors we see everywhere in almost every application. What you may not know is that there are also vertical motors. What you’ll see in this article is information on horizontal and vertical motors and some of the [read more…]
Downtime can have many negative impacts on business. Fortunately, Kurz is here to help our customers in any way possible when times are tough. That includes offering an extensive inventory to keep your business going even during downtime. Downtime can slow down production and can react negatively affecting bottom lines. When your business needs bulk [read more…]
Kurz Industrial Solutions has partnered with Regal and is now an authorized Marathon dealer. The Marathon brand encompasses 1000s of products and solutions: Single and three-phase AC motors, NEMA and IEC motors, low and medium voltage motors, PMDC motors, radial, and axial flux motors. Additionally: Agriculture/Farm Motors Aggregate Duty Motors Air Moving Motors Automotive Duty Motors Chemical/Mining/Process [read more…]
The global COVID-19 pandemic has had many broad-reaching impacts on businesses and industries around the world. One issue facing companies in the industrial sector is short-term and longterm storage solutions for mechanical equipment. While the COVID-19 National Emergency continues, companies are adversely affected by conditions forcing either closures or reduced uptime that are disruptive to business [read more…]
Poseidon Systems offers sensors, oil conditioning monitoring and wear debris monitoring solutions to Wind turbine operators. When Kurz Wind sat down with Stephen Steen – Vice President of Industrial IoT, they had installed 5,500 Wind Turbines with condition monitoring systems and queued up 6,500 more installations by the end of 2020 (reaching over 12,000 in the [read more…]
Stephen Steen is the Vice President of Industrial IoT for Poseidon Systems. In this episode of the Kurz Wind Podcast, we take a explore the following questions: Who is Stephen Steen? Can you tell me more about Poseidon Systems for the Wind Industry? What technologies does Condition Monitoring replace? What is Online Oil Condition [read more…]
Now that we explained why you should care about hoses, and why your hoses fail, we end this three-part series with “how has Kurz improved the hoses.” The #1 question that we get is “why do you think that your wind hoses will work better?” The answer? Data. We received samples of the three major OEM [read more…]
Written by Dan Frantz (see contact info below) When I first started working in Wind, I had assumed gearbox hose assemblies were an afterthought for wind site managers. With multi-million-dollar machines and many high dollar components, why would a site manager pay close attention to hose assemblies? My assumption could not be farther from the [read more…]
