Category Alignment Blog March 24 / 2020 Couplings In power transmission, a coupling is a device used to connect a driving machine, such as a motor, engine, or turbine, to a driven machine, such as a fan, pump, compressor, or other machine. There are numerous...
Category Alignment Blog March 17 / 2020 Functions of a Lubricant: Reduce Friction A maintenance technicians’ job (function) is to keep the machines that they maintain operating reliably. Alignment, balancing, and lubrication are some examples of how they are able to keep machinery reliable. Proper...
Category News March 17 / 2020 Fixturlaser EXO The FIXTURLASER EXO is developed for keeping machines aligned in hazardous areas, thus keeping your machines and maintenance workers safe, and the production undisturbed. With the characteristic FIXTURLASER graphical...
Category News March 17 / 2020 RT-300 The augmented mechanic’s solution – RT-300 – is a smart reliability tool that combines on-the-spot machine diagnostics with tools for pre-alignment and precision shaft alignment, minimizing the time from fault...
Category Alignment Blog March 05 / 2020 Make Pre-Alignment Great Again ACOEM-VibrAlign has shared over 100 separate blog posts and over 1 million YouTube views on Pre-Alignment. Thus, we can all agree it is an important topic and the key to a successful precision shaft alignment job. No...
Category Alignment Blog February 21 / 2020 Pay Me Now, or Pay Me Later! Years ago, an automotive oil filter company’s ad campaign, capitalized on the phrase “pay me now, or pay me later”. The premise was that you could pay less upfront for an inferior oil filter, and then pay again because...
Category Alignment Blog February 13 / 2020 Balancing How To #6 – Balancing Tolerances By now, if you’ve kept up with the VibrAlign balancing “how-to” blogs, you should see that balancing is mostly just a math problem – counteracting forces. But we haven’t discussed when the balance job is through. When I...
Category Alignment Blog February 06 / 2020 Using Your Laser Alignment System to Check the Validity Rule The validity rule is an important concept in precision shaft alignment. It can be used to confirm that your readings are accurate and is why we don’t have to rotate a full 360 degrees in order to get accurate alignment...
Category Alignment Blog January 29 / 2020 Generating Global and Special Reports in the NEST Once you have moved your data back into the Nest, after a Route has been collected, you may want to provide a report or reports to different parts of an organization. The Nest has several ways of generating a couple...
Category Alignment Blog January 15 / 2020 Using the Verti-Zontal Process on Wind Turbines with Adjustable Chocks Precision shaft alignment of wind turbine generators mounted on adjustable chocks is as straightforward as when aligning rotating machinery mounted on chocks down at ground level. In the case of a recent NXA...