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 Michael Haak
predictive technologist,
Eli Lilly & Company
Michael Haak says he
liked to play with motors when he was a kid. Perhaps that prepared him
for his career at Eli Lilly’s medical products plant in
Indianapolis.
Today, the 10-year
Lilly veteran performs electrical work, vibration analysis and
infrared thermography on production equipment, but he is best known
for his work with motor current analysis (MCA) tools.
Haak received MCA
training in 1998, the first year the plant acquired the technology. He
put it to use prior to a scheduled overhaul of motors that year.
Before sending the motors out for repair and cleaning, he utilized MCA
and pinpointed those that didn’t need servicing. That generated
$50,000 in cost savings.
He is now called in
regularly to troubleshoot anomalies in fans, centrifuges, compressors,
homogenizers, pumps, DC motors and variable frequency drives.
In late October, he
presented an hour-long speech on the benefits of MCA at the Society
for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals conference in
Nashville, Tenn. He was the only non-management maintenance
professional out of 42 speakers at the event.
This article appeared in the
December 2002/January 2003 issue of MRO Today magazine. Copyright
2003.
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