Howard Penrose
Howard W. Penrose, Ph.D., CMRP, CEM, CMVP, is president of MotorDoc® LLC, a Veteran-Owned Small Business. He chairs standards at American Clean Power (2022-25), previously led SMRP (2018), and has been active with IEEE since 1993. He represents the USA for CIGRE machine standards (2024-28) and serves on NEMA rail electrification standards (2024+). A former Senior Research Engineer at the University of Chicago, he’s a 5-time UAW-GM Quality Award winner. His work spans GM and John Deere hybrids, Navy machine repair, and high-temperature motors. He holds certifications in reliability, energy, M&V, and data science from Kennedy-Western, Stanford, Michigan, AWS, and IBM.
Posts by Howard Penrose
How Low-Voltage Motor Circuit Analysis Helps Predict Failures Early
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How Chaos Engineers Use AI Without Letting It Run the Plant
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Why Reliability Engineering That Ignores Context Will Fail Fast
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How Ignoring VFD Guidelines Led to Bearings, Belts, and Drive Failures
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Why This 800 HP Steel Mill Fan Motor Failed and What Tests Revealed
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Diagnosing Electric Motor Issues with Advanced Surge Testing
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Why U.S. Grid Stability Depends on Smart Politics and Policy
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How Forensic RCFA Unlocks True Root Causes of Machine Failures
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AI Isn’t Wise: Why Human Judgment Still Matters in Tech
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What the Large Motor Reliability Studies Actually Found and Why It Matters
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Supra Harmonics in VFD Systems: A New Frontier in Reliability Risk
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Why So Many Electric Motors Are Quietly Running Beyond Safe Limits
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