- August 6, 2020
Measuring for precise alignment when installing a coupling driven asset is a smart and cost-effective way to help assure a longer machine life -- right from the beginning of its active use. Maintenance teams that measure ..
- July 23, 2020
It's easy to say you're a leader. But much harder to become one — and stay one. It takes work. To date, the legacy of PRUFTECHNIK, a division of Fluke Reliability, covers nearly 50 years of ..
- July 20, 2020
It’s an age-old problem: the technicians in the field performing shaft alignments are often physically separated from the managers and engineers who need the measurement data being gathered. That’s why PRUFTECHNIK alignment systems — such as ..
- July 17, 2020
It’s commonly known among maintenance teams that misalignment in rotating equipment is caused by excessive loading, vibration, worn couplings, soft foot, and more. But diagnosing and correcting misalignment in machinery often is considered specialized work—reserved for ..
- July 15, 2020
By Eric Elder When it comes to high-speed machines such as turbines, thermal growth is something that companies almost always must monitor. A PRÜFTECHNIK services team helped a leading manufacturer of industrial gas turbines for the ..
- July 7, 2020
Among the most challenging machinery alignment tasks you might face is aligning a Cardan shaft—named after 16th-century Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardano, who invented it along with other machine mechanisms. Cardan shafts are essentially couplings. Their purpose ..
- June 30, 2020
Machinery alignment scenarios are rarely the same. Using an easy shaft alignment tool that works for some simple jobs can introduce new errors on more complex projects. This unnecessarily complicates the alignment process, frustrating technicians, and ..
- June 18, 2020
Misaligned machinery is costly for a number of reasons, from increased energy consumption to more frequent repairs and failures to shorter asset life cycles. Precisely aligned machines use up to 10 percent less energy than misaligned ..
- June 17, 2020
Now that PRUFTECHNIK has joined Fluke Reliability, customers have access to an even more comprehensive range of tools from one source. Some may already be familiar with PRUFTECHNIK from their industry-leading systems for machinery alignment. They ..
- June 15, 2020
One of the biggest challenges in aligning large or high-speed machines is determining precisely how much the asset must undergo a move to achieve optimal alignment. This determination has long been a manual and tedious process. ..
- May 27, 2020
Eliminating soft foot before attempting machinery alignment will save you time and money In the first installment of this two-part blog series about soft foot, you learned how to identify the symptoms, effects, and types of ..
- May 22, 2020
Soft foot can damage or destroy machinery Soft foot is a commonly used industry term describing machine frame distortion. It occurs when rotating machinery is set on its base, frame, or sole plate and one or ..
- April 28, 2020
Learn more about how the I-P Interval can help maximize reliability The Potential Failure (P-F) Curve is a chart used to assess the condition of an asset and its progression toward failure. The X-axis represents the ..
- April 28, 2020
Maintenance leaders are demanding alignment systems that can adapt to their assets, challenges, and teams From basic alignment jobs to more complex and difficult tasks, maintenance teams regularly face unique alignment challenges. Because machines and their ..
- April 27, 2020
A key benefit of online condition monitoring tools for rotating equipment is the ability to view data from anywhere. For instance, a company with locations in different continents can share vibration analysis and balancing data reports ..
- April 24, 2020
To help reduce the spread of COVID-19, more workers around the world are working remotely than perhaps ever before. For some roles, this transition has been straightforward and seamless. For other functions and organizations, it has ..
- April 14, 2020
A worn-out bearing may have many causes. But, in most cases, the source of the problem is misalignment. High resilience from the rotatable shaft may result in bearing damage that affects your machines and leads to ..
