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Five Minute Facts
The Maintenance Manager is Balancing Dilemmas Within the Corporation
In conversation with Julia Piva, Silvio dos Santos describes the multiple maintenance dilemmas faced by maintenance managers in various types of plants…
- Silvio dos Santos and Julia Piva
- SEMEQ
Five Minute Facts
Advantages to Dynamic Balancing
Imbalance is a leading cause of excessive machine/rotor vibration. It can be an inherent result of rotor design or construction. Imbalance can occur due to routine wear or damage...
- Chris Keniston
- ERBESSD INSTRUMENTS
Webinars
Case Study: Generator Balancing and Diagnosing a High Vibration Trip
Case Study: Generator Balancing and Diagnosing a High Vibration Trip Adding Advanced Condition Monitoring Legacy API 670 Protection Systems
- Dan Goodrich
- Alta Solutions
Articles
API Application: Online System Balancing
What is API and how can it be used in application? In this article, Anders Hultman discusses and demonstrates the procedure for 2-plane balancing, influence coefficients, and shows the excel application.
- Anders Hultman
- SPM Instrument AB
Two Minute Tips
The Importance of Balancing a Turbo
Internal combustion engines use turbochargers as a way to output more power. Some turbocharger impellers can reach speeds up to 300,000 rpm.
Unbalance at high speed generates vibration that will not only reduce the engine performance, but may eventually cause permanent damage to the whole system. Needless to say, turbo balancing machines are important in maintenance activities for turbocharger systems to work in optimal conditions.
- Dr. M. David Howard
- Erbessd Instruments
White Papers
Switching Strategies: Moving to Condition Based Maintenance
Balancing cost reduction and efficiency improvement targets is a common source of frustration for maintenance and engineering managers. For facilities that operate continuously with no window for unplanned shutdowns, poor reliability and availability of machinery is far more serious, but even in factories with regular opportunities for maintenance, recovery can still be expensive and time consuming.
- AVT Reliability
Webinars
Understanding What Makes Lasers Tick
We will discuss the building blocks of a good laser system and how you can untangle the gobbledygook of tech specs in order to make the best selection for your applications.Understanding how a laser system works (not just how to operate it), will make you a better aligner. We will explore and break down the most common methodologies.
- Ron Sullivan
- Hamar Laser
Webinars
Understanding Vibration Analysis of Fluid Drives Systems
This webinar will be unveiling the benefits of fluid drive basics, internal configuration and the basic vibration analysis expertise required for detecting some common faults associated with the components. Live scenarios vibration data and case studies will be utilized in demonstrating the requisite knowledge required for diagnosing fluid coupling failures..
- Michael Osagada
- LafargHolcim
Articles
General Computer Program for Two-Plane Balancing of Rigid Rotors
This technical article develops a universal computer program for the two-plane balance of rigid rotors, by means of a unified treatment of the system and the convention for the phase measurement, which can be used by any general balancing equipment...
- Jose Mendez Adriani
- Central University of Venezuela
