Alignment + Balancing
Five Minute Facts
Addressing the Issue of Soft Foot
Soft foot refers to distortion occurring at the base of a rotating machinery. This happens when at least one machine foot is not the same height as the others...
- Mike Olszewski
- Reliability Concepts
Two Minute Tips
Two Minute Tips
Two Minute Tips
Shaft Alignment Know-How: Installation
Many equipment failures occur during what is called the infant mortality period...
Two Minute Tips
Shaft Alignment Know-How: What’s Misalignment?
Misalignment means you have too much offset and angularity...
Two Minute Tips
Shaft Alignment Know How: Repeatability
We have all heard the old carpenters’ saying: measure twice, cut once...
Two Minute Tips
Precision Maintenance: Why do it? Alignment and Balancing Procedures
Why is precision maintenance so important? The reasons are clear...
- Alan Luedeking
- LUDECA
Two Minute Tips
My Spectrum Does Not Indicate Misalignment so My Machine is Aligned, Right?
If the spectrum (and phase readings) indicate misalignment, then the machine will be misaligned...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Two Minute Tips
If You Had One Tool for Reliability What Would It Be?
The practice of reliability has many tools, processes and methodologies...
- Trent Phillips
- Novelis