- March 8, 2021
Misalignment of rolls on a tire line eventually leads to costly problems such as poor tracking, stretching, wrinkling, uneven coating, and ultimately, product defects. Maintaining the parallelism of rolls is vital to overall production performance of ..
- February 16, 2021
Image credit: Stanford University/Barron Storey ParAlign is a featured component of Prüftechnik's Peak Roll and Geometrical Alignment (Peak RGA) service, and a big reason is its exclusive military-grade gyroscope technology. This same technology has ..
- February 16, 2021
A client in Quebec, the second-largest province in Canada, turned to Fluke Reliability's ParAlign service to fix the roll machines in its plant after noticing product wrinkling and tracking issues during paper production. A team of ..
- February 11, 2021
Only 38 ParAlign roll alignment systems exist worldwide. The critical component of Fluke Reliability's Peak Roll and Geometrical Alignment (RGA) service features military-grade technology also used in the space shuttle. Each ParAlign device contains three ring ..
- February 9, 2021
Maintenance and reliability pros know that machine downtime is costly, even if it is for scheduled maintenance. Since time is precious during this period when your assets are locked down, it’s smart to maximize this opportunity ..
- January 7, 2021
BFGoodrich, the legendary tire manufacturer, counts itself as a satisfied customer of the Prüftechnik ParAlign roll alignment service, based on the results delivered at its Fort Wayne, Ind., plant. “We have been running a superior product ..
- December 1, 2020
Need a rugged device that is user-friendly even in harsh environments? ShaftAlign Touch, the latest addition to the Prüftechnik Adaptive Alignment family of products, boasts a user interface (UI) designed with your entire team in mind. ..
- November 30, 2020
If your facility is scheduling planned downtime during the holiday season, it might be a good time to book a Pruftechnik Peak Roll and Geometrical Alignment (RGA) service. This total alignment solution combines ParAlign gyroscopic technology ..
- November 16, 2020
What started as a mechanical contracting business in 1993 has evolved into ROTATEK, a precision service company specializing in rotating equipment, including laser alignment, 3D metrology, field balancing, and vibration services. ROTATEK, based in Hackensack, N.J., ..
- November 5, 2020
By Chelsea Fiegel Fluke Reliability’s alignment team traveled to a client’s corrugated board production plant to perform an alignment service on a corrugator machine. Implementing a new methodology that required using the Pruftechnik ParAlign Roll Alignment ..