Machinery Fault Diagnosis Guide

Unbalance, misalignment, bearing failures, gear faults, motor electrical problems, etc. are typical faults experienced in all equipment. Identification and elimination of these faults and other issues are critical to maintaining the health of your plant equipment. Healthy equipment means lower maintenance cost, increased uptime, better product quality and a safer work environment for employees. This illustrated guide will help you determine the most common equipment problems using vibration analysis as a diagnosis tool.

A Practical Guide to Pulley Alignment

Laser alignment is an essential component of a proactive maintenance strategy for belt-driven machines. This practical guide provides guidelines and information for the implementation of good pulley alignment of belt-driven equipment, including terminology, proper alignment methods, soft foot, and best maintenance practices.

Detecting Misalignment using Vibration Analysis

This webinar will explain how vibration analysis can be used to detect misalignment in rotating machinery

Thermal Growth and Machinery Alignment

This presentation deals with the effects of thermal growth on machinery, principally as concerns positional change of the machinery and its impact on the shaft alignment of the machines and how to properly measure and deal with these effects.

A Practical Guide to Shaft Alignment

Laser alignment is an essential component of a proactive maintenance strategy for rotating machines. This practical guide provides information and guidelines for the implementation of good shaft alignment of directly coupled rotating equipment including terminology, alignment methods, troubleshooting soft foot, causes of machine breakdown and related case studies.

Why Alignment? Reliability starts with precision shaft alignment

Up to 50% of damage to rotating machinery is directly related to misalignment! Well aligned machines reduce operating cost.
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Laser Shaft Alignment: Repeatability and Accuracy issues. Troubleshooting your readings.

This presentation is an in-depth treatment of the subject of repeatability and accuracy when laser aligning directly coupled rotating machines. The presenter will discuss how to troubleshoot your readings and will then take your questions concerning these topics.

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Rocking Soft Foot Demo Video

Soft Foot

This presentation is an in-depth treatment of the subject of soft foot, or machine frame distortion, in directly coupled rotating machines. The presenter will cover how to measure soft foot with different methods and discuss the pros and cons of each. He will also discuss how to diagnose and correct soft foot conditions, and will then take your questions concerning these topics.

How Fast Is the Data Collection Speed of Your Vibration Data Collector?

You may feel that this is not an important characteristic. Does it really matter if a data collector is one or two seconds faster acquiring data versus another? Data collection speed is very important and should be taken into consideration by your facility management and condition monitoring group.

Does your facility need a remote vibration monitoring analysis program?

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Effective Defect Analysis: Maximizing your Vibration Setup

Missed vibration conditioning monitoring data can never be recovered. All too often either insufficient data is collected, or data is collected at an ineffective interval. Then when crucial trend information is needed, accurate analysis is difficult at best.

This presentation will discuss setting highly effective collection specifications, as well as determining the appropriate collection interval for several applications.

Mitch Stansloski, PhD, PE