With skills honed and manufacturing techniques refined by more than six decades of motor rebuilding and repair experience across a broad spectrum of industries, Electric Motor Shop is eminently qualified to address the unique needs and applications of virtually any industrial, processing or municipal customer. Highly attuned to the critical importance of getting your equipment back in service quickly, and operating dependably, we utilize advanced diagnostic, manufacturing, tracking and quality control processes and procedures to optimize our operations, and ensure you a rapid response. A list of our shop services can be found below.
Motor and Generator Repair
- AC and DC motors up to 20,000 HP (13,200V/AC, 750V/DC)
- Electric and manual hoists
- Generators
- Pumps including submersible, vertical hollow shaft and solid shaft
- Single and three phase motors
- Vertical, wound rotor, synchronous, eddy current, permanent magnets
- Welders
- Warranty repair (call for manufacturer)
- Wind turbine repairs
Electronics Repair and Service
- AC/DC drives
- Component level replacement
- Motor starter repair
- Soft Starters
- Servo motor repair
- Parameter setting for PLC's & drives
- Welders and generators
Testing, Alignment, Analysis and Balancing
- Hypotronics and Phenix - AC/DC test center
- Load testing up to 3,000 HP (7200V/AC, 750V/DC)
- Core loss testing
- Baker surge testing (12,000 volts)
- Thermography
- Laser alignment
- Vibration analysis
- Field balancing
- Reports available
- Quarterly and annual contracts
Switchgear
- Switchgear
- Repair and overhaul of low and medium voltage circuit breakers
- Retrofit and upgrade of obsolete equipment with solid state trip units
- Protective relay and meter calibration
- AC and DC high potential testing
- Airborne ultrasound inspections
- Thermo graphic surveys (IR scans)
- Thermo graphic surveys (IR scans)
- Acceptance testing of new installations
- Contact repair and silver plating
- Servo motor repair
- Oil testing and filtering
- Soft starts - AC and DC drives
- Automation and control upgrades
- Control systems troubleshooting
- Preventive maintenance on oil circuit breakers
Capabilities
At Electric Motor Shop, we are dedicated to achieving and maintaining a “leadership position” in every market we serve. To meet this ambitious objective, we have assembled an incomparable array of technologies, state-of-the-art equipment and over sixty highly trained, multi-disciplined technicians, engineers, mechanics, winders, and support personnel to support our client’s needs.
Engineering
Is your need electrical engineering support? Electric Motor Shop has the engineering capabilities and expertise to design and build new control panels, or retrofit old ones; repair AC/DC drives, soft starters, PLC’s, switch drives, or servo and switch gears. Our depth of engineering expertise also enables us to provide complete automation design, retrofit, or upgrade services, as well as PLC, LABVIEW, and graphical software programming.
Machine Shop
Among the largest and most complete in-house machine shops of their kind on the East Coast, our Wake Forest and Rocky Mount facilities are equipped to provide a complete range of repair and fabrication services. A “single source” provider, EMS does 99% of all machine work in-house.
Pick-up and Delivery
Rapid response is a central tenant of Electric Motor Shop’s mission of providing superior customer service. To that end, we have assembled a large fleet of trucks for the pick-up and delivery of motors, control panels, drives and hoists at our customer’s facility. Our 20-plus fleet of vehicles includes a 40 foot, 80,000 pound GVAW lowboy and a 24 foot Mack® with a 10,000 pound GVAW.
Facilities
Committed to better serving our customers, increasing our capabilities and extending our geographic coverage within the Southeast region, we have completed a major expansion of our Wake Forest, NC facility. This new 20,000 square foot facility, along with our additional equipment acquisitions has enabled EMS to handle larger motors and further enhance the efficiency of workflow.
Electric Motor Shop Facilities
- (2) strategically located facilities in Wake Forest and Rocky Mount, North Carolina
- 100,000 combined square feet of office and workshop capacity
Varnish Removal and Curing
- (4) Burn-out ovens for old varnish removal- 12' x 12' x 12'
- (2) Bake ovens for curing new varnish- 8' x 8' x 8'
Sandblasting equipment
- Both EMS facilities equipped with Clemco 10' x 10' x 10' sandblasters
- All rebuilt motors are sandblasted
- All parts steam-cleaned and sandblasted
All parts steam-cleaned and sandblasted
- 10' diameter x 14' deep (Epoxylite 478, located in Wake Forest)
- 5' diameter x 6’ deep (Dolph CC1105 Polyester, located in Rocky Mount)
60 Ton capacity crane (Wake Forest, NC)
- 60 Ton capacity crane (Wake Forest, NC)
- 60 Ton capacity crane (Wake Forest, NC)
Rewinding equipment
- Two computerized Samatic automatic rewind machines
Testing, Balancing and Analysis equipment
- Hypotronics and Phoenix — AC/DC test centers
- AW Dynamometer Load test up to 3,000 HP (7200V/AC, 750V/DC)
- Lexseco core loss testing equipment
- Dielectric absorption tester
- Baker surge tester (12,000 volts)
- P.I. Polarization tester
- Agema infrared camera
- CSI laser alignment equipment
- IRD-vibration analysis equipment
- Two Dyna-Bal Model D150’s, 20,000 lb. capacity balancing machines
Machine Shop Equipment
- 99% of all machine work done in-house
- Mahr Federal air gauges for precise measurements
- Nine turning lathes up to 50" swing, 20' feet long
- Seven vertical milling machines
- Press work and welding equipment (300 & 150 ton presses)
- Plasma cutters
