A Circuit Breaker (C/B) is a mechanical device that will involve a magnetic solenoid and bimetallic strip inside. When the strip heats up due to current, it will bend and activate the solenoid to trip…

EECO is providing the convenient online shopping experience you’ve asked for! It’s easy to get registered at ShopEECO.com and start shopping for all your electrical equipment needs. In this short video, you can…

Criticality assessments can be daunting even for plants with sophisticated tools at their disposal. Where to start? Which assets should you include in the assessment? This is one of the most common questions…

We all know what defines critical spares, right? Those parts or components that would cause significant downtime or interruption of operations should they fail. Often, critical spares are stored at remote sites and available…

MRO maintenance storerooms have been effective at providing everything from dust masks and gloves to repair parts to critical spares. All of them useful and necessary items in an industrial facility. This is…

If you spend time reading the social media profiles of maintenance storeroom managers, you soon learn that reducing storeroom inventory is a popular goal. The fact that it is an…

The market is experiencing a large increase in counterfeit electrical products sold through grey markets. This has been going on for a while, about 20 years. Over the last 5 years the rate…

  There are many theories and a lot of good practices relating to storeroom management and more specifically, inventory management. We have written about many of these practices in this…

  High Bay (HB) lighting fixtures are getting facility managers’ attention in industrial, commercial, manufacturing, gymnasium and other large indoor venues. These spaces at one time could be seen lit…

  Life in the electrical storeroom can be challenging for a lot of reasons. With orders to fulfill and check, vendors to manage, job orders to issue and more –…

The life of a storeroom manager is full of challenges. There is never enough hours to handle the constant changes and new activities that must be supported. In many plants we…

  VMI continues to be a productive technology to manage high moving items in many electrical storerooms, and for good reasons. Number one is efficiency. Electrical storeroom managers have a…

Why you should do a self evaluation of your electrical storeroom If you have an electrical storeroom that supports critical operations, chances are you’ve spent a great deal of time…

High Bay LED Lighting, Low Cost of Ownership Dialight’s Vigilant is a high-output LED High Bay Light Fixture and an ideal HB replacement for less efficient 1,000W traditional HID fixtures. Dialight’s Vigilant…

Lighting solutions for hazardous environments are unique from general industrial lighting in a number of important ways that makes them suited to locations where the threat of explosive, or combustible substances…

Amid all the excitement surrounding LED lighting – and there are plenty of reasons to be excited – there is also the hard reality of cost justification that customers must inevitably…

  Matching LED lighting to the challenge can be quite an effort especially with all the choices available for industrial and general purpose lighting from a myriad of companies offering products for this market. According to our lighting…

  We have all heard the advantages of upgrading industrial lighting to LEDs – lower energy consumption, much longer lamp life, reduced heat build up and better light ‘color’ among other…

  We are often asked what happens a week or two after a storeroom assessment takes place. To answer this question, we need to back up a step or two…

  The industrial electrical storeroom is a demanding environment where there is always competition for time and never enough of it to “get to it all”. So much is changing,…

According to Terry Wireman, “The inventory and purchasing staff have the largest impact on maintenance productivity, more than any other support group”. The basis of this assessment comes down to wait…

  5 Things You Should Know About Electrical Storeroom Management. Electrical storerooms have been getting a lot of attention the last few years, and for good reason. For many of…

The outdoor lighting market is continuing the migration from traditional lighting sources such as high pressure sodium, metal halide and quartz to LEDs, and for some very good reasons. Phase out…

Short-circuit and overload protection devices are both going to protect your motor circuit from excess current but in very different ways. Often times people tend to misuse the term ‘short-circuit’…

How innovative VFD enclosure design is helping to manage heat. VFD enclosure heat  is typically managed through tried and tested means such as forced ventilation, moving heat sinks to the…

A thermal audit of electrical enclosures can be revealing. Statistically three out of ten enclosures are too hot for the power electronics and controls inside them. But this can be…

  On average 3 out of 10 enclosures require thermal cooling.  Why be concerned with thermal management of electrical enclosures? Based on statistics, 30% of operating systems are being heat…