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Internal component alignment of 40 MW A.C. generator
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Energy-Tech |
January 2012 |
Shaft Alignment, Soft Foot and Energy Savings
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Uptime Magazine |
December 2011/January 2012 |
An Intern, a Laser and a Dream
Quantify the cost of misaligned shafts and couplings
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Plant Services |
July 2011 |
Save Some Green: Green Up Your Machines
Investing in more efficient process machinery makes good business sense and will help to ensure reduced costs plus a greener plant. However, not all plants can afford to replace their present equipment with newer, more efficient machines. What steps can these plants take to “green up” their business and operate more efficiently? Most plants can vastly improve machine reliability, efficiency, and reduce raw materials conversion costs by simply making improvements in their present machinery. This can be done through precision maintenance practices and defect elimination. A good PdM (predictive maintenance) process will help to achieve these goals...
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IMPO Magazine |
July 2010 |
Maintaining Belt Drives For Maximum Savings
Properly maintained V-belt drives can be up to 97% efficient. Poorly operating belt drives can waste as much as 10% additional input power. Let's consider a scenario that ignores motor losses and only considers losses in the belt drive. With electricity costs of seven cents per kWh, a rotor operating three shifts per day, five days per week and requiring 50 horsepower from a belt drive would consume over $16,000 of power annually. An additional drop in efficiency of only 5% would result in increased costs of over $800 per year. In some industries, such belt drives may comprise more than 50% of the total drive population. This example clearly shows that big savings can be realized by properly maintaining them...
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Maintenance Technology Magazine |
July 2010 |
The Ever Increasing Benefits of Modern PdM Technologies
When dial indicators, straight edges, and taper gauges were the only tools available for doing shaft-to-shaft alignment, machines were often left in a rough alignment condition. This happened because either too much time would need to be invested in order to obtain the required degree of precision or human error entered into the calculations. With the introduction of laser alignment tools, it has become standard operating procedure to perform precision shaft-to-shaft alignment when machines are installed or reinstalled after a rebuild. Before the introduction of laser alignment tools, harmful soft foot conditions were often not addressed...
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Uptime Magazine |
June 2010 |
Conquering Wind Turbine Shaft Alignment
The truer the shaft alignment, the lower the maintenance costs and longer the turbine life, but how can it be achieved?
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Wind Systems Magazine |
April 2010 |
Train well for long-term benefits
The importance of training is often given short shrift in industry, when it is in fact a vitally important profit center for the business. A well-trained employee gets the job done better, faster and cares more. An employee that has been well trained appreciates the fact that the company cares enough to invest in educating him or her...
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Energy-Tech Magazine |
March 2010 |
Converting training costs into value on the plant floor
During these tough times, industries attempt to cut all costs deemed not absolutely necessary for the day-to-day operation of the plant. Many times training budgets are among the first costs to be curtailed. This usually happens because the true value of training may not be fully understood, and training may not be seen as critical to company growth and profits...
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Plant Services |
February 2010 |
Are your vertical pumps throwing money down the drain?
Vertical pumps are designed to be "self-aligning" due to the rabbet fit between pump and driver, thus eliminating the need for precision shaft alignment. Notwithstanding these advantages, this article will focus on the need for alignment of vertical pumps...
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Pumps & Systems Magazine |
February 2010 |
Go Lean and Green: Align The Machine
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Lubrication Management & Technology |
November/December 2009 |
A cooling tower adventure in alignment
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Energy-Tech Magazine |
December 2009 |
Vibration due to Shaft Misalignment
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IMPO Magazine |
October 2009 |
Alternatives to using dowel pins in machine feet
— Alan Luedeking
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Reliable Plant |
October 2009 |
Do You Really Know Where Your Machines Are?
—Deron Jozokos
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Energy-Tech Magazine |
March 2009 |
Align pumps and drivers to maximize availability, minimize energy consumption
— Pedro Casanova
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Combined Cycle Journal |
December 2008 |
Shaft vs. Foot Alignment Tolerances
A Critique of Various Approaches
—Alan Luedeking
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Uptime Magazine |
October/November 2008 |
Turbine-Generator Alignment
— Alan Luedeking
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Energy-Tech Magazine |
August 2008 |
Why Precision Alignment?
— Pedro Casanova
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Processing Magazine |
August 2008 |
Why Alignment?
— Alan Luedeking
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Power Engineering Magazine |
July 2008 |
SheaveMaster GREENLINE - Improve your machinery performance and reliability with quick, easy and precise alignments for your belt-driven equipment
—Alan Luedeking
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Uptime Magazine |
June/July 2008 |
LUDECA opens Alignment, Vibration Analysis and Balancing Training Center
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Diesel & Gas Turbine Worldwide Magazine |
May 2008 |
When the belt breaks - Your millwrights can ensure sheave and belt reliability with these basic maintenance measures
—Alan Luedeking
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Plant Services Magazine |
March 2008 |
Maintenance Minders: Tips to Achieve an Accurate and Efficient Alignment
—Deron Jozokos
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Pumps & Systems Magazine |
February 2008 |
Do You Really Know Where Your Machines Are?
—Deron Jozokos
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Maintenance Technology Magazine and Lubrication Management & Technology Magazines |
December 2007 and
March/April 2008 |
Measure flatness in uncompromising detail with the LEVALIGN laser
—Alan Luedeking
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Uptime Magazine |
November 2007 |
Newsletter No. 12 Focus: Wind Turbines
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Telediagnose.com |
September 2007 |
Laser Alignment in a Nutshell - A simple guide to the proper steps for proper alignment
— Dennis Onken
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Uptime Magazine |
August 2007 |
Vertical Shaft Plumbness using a Laser Alignment System
— Daus Studenberg
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Impact of Wireless Laser Based Shaft Alignment on Vibration and STG Coupling Failure
— Ned M. Endres and E. Peyton Swan, RoMaDyn, Inc.
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Proceedings of ASME Power 2007 |
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Precision laser alignment is just 3 simple steps away with the OPTALIGN smart
—Alan Luedeking
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Uptime Magazine |
July 2007 |
Newsletter No. 11 Focus: Fans & Blowers
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Telediagnose.com |
July 2007 |
Bracket Sag in Gas Turbine Laser Alignment - ROTALIGN Ultra
— Peter M. Bradshaw, Marty Krueger & Alan Luedeking
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Compressor Tech Two Magazine and Diesel & Gas Turbine Worldwide Magazine |
November 2006 and October 2006 |
Bearing race measurement following crankshaft bearing damage - BORALIGN
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Telediagnose.com |
September 2006 |
Mantenimiento de Poleas en "V" - DOTLINE LASER
—Alan Luedeking
Bajar Archivo PDF |
Revista Mecanálisis |
Junio/Julio 2006 |
Do we need to align cardan shafts? - ROTALIGN Ultra
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Telediagnose.com |
June 2006 |
Adventures in Alignment - Cooling Tower Assignment Tests Laser Alignment System - ROTALIGN PRO
—Alan Luedeking
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Uptime Magazine |
May 2006 |
Maintenance Minders: Quick Tips on Alignment
—Alan Luedeking
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Pumps & Systems Magazine |
March 2006 |
Laser Alignment Verification - On site at the largest gas turbine in the US - ROTALIGN ULTRA
—Alan Luedeking
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Uptime Magazine |
September 2005 |
Verificación de Alineación Láser - En el lugar de la Turbina de Gas más grande en los Estados Unidos
—Alan Luedeking
Leer Articulo |
Uptime Magazine
Traducido y Publicado por Confiabilidad.net |
Setiembre 2005 |
Don't Get Soft
—Pedro Casanova
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Pumps & Systems Magazine |
September 2005 |
Making Machine Train Alignment More Efficient and Accurate - ROTALIGN PRO
— Irene Hamernick
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Maintenance Technology Magazine |
April 2005 |
Turbine Alignment: Time is money - CENTRALIGN
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Combined Cycle Journal |
1Q 2005 |
How Multiple Condition-monitoring Technologies Produced Big Cost Savings - OPTALIGN PLUS
Read article |
Reliability World Newsletter |
February 2005 |
Getting the Best Alignment Possible
Using laser alignment on a tough vertical condensate pump application saved valuable downtime and avoided a lot of frustation.
—Alan Luedeking
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Pumps and Processes |
March/April 2002 |
