Motor Current Signature Analysis to Detect Faults in Induction Motor Drives—fundamentals, Data Interpretation, and Industrial Case Histories

Director and Consultant with EM Diagnostics Ltd., in Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, since August 2001. He has 42 years’ experience covering the installation, maintenance, design, performance, and condition monitoring of electrical drives. Professor Thomson has worked as electrician, R&D engineer, academic, and consultant. In 1990, he was appointed Professor at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, for his research and development work on condition monitoring for electrical drives. He was awarded a First Class Technological Certificate in Electrical Installation work from The City & Guilds London Institute (1966), and a Higher National Certificate in Electrical Engineering (1970) Professor Thomson has a BSc (Hons, Electrical Engineering, 1973) and an MSc (1977) from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He is a SMIEEE and FIEE, a CEng in the UK, a visiting Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Abertay, Scotland, and has published over 70 papers.