Corrective Maintenance

When equipment is out of balance the resulting vibration has a significant impact on how long bearings, as well as other components will last.

In-place dynamic balancing is a rather inexpensive method of correcting the increased load to the bearings caused by force, dynamic, coupled, or overhung rotor imbalance.

While on site performing this service, our technicians go the extra mile and record vibration data on all rotating elements associated with the component to balance. The motor is the often overlooked component, however bearings, pulley condition, electrical fluting (with VFD driven motors), often causes problems that could potentially cause more significant problems than an unbalanced rotor.

We perform this complete diagnosis of corrective maintenance to make sure you know the condition of the entire machine.

Laser Alignment

New installations, acceptance testing, or following repair of a pump, or gearbox, or any rotating piece of machinery that requires precision alignment, we do it all. We use the standards from the Hydraulic Institutes Specs 9-6-4.

We use laser alignment to reduce the amount of bearing load, amperage draw, and the potential for early failure of the coupling. While reverse dial indicating can provide the same results as using a laser, the laser provides better accuracy per move than does reverse dial, thereby decreasing the time it takes to align. Other benefits include a printout of the moves made to bring the components into alignment, all machines in the train can be input into the laser alignment computer to provide a continuous flow through from motor to gearbox to transmission, to pump or fan. Using a dial indicator for this can be cumbersome, while also difficult to insure all numbers are correct for the calculations down the line.

Balancing, Laser Alignment and Thermography are all part of the advanced maintenance strategies we use.