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Yearly: 2015

Benchmark PDM Training
BENCHMARK PDM News

Local Utilities Company knows about Extending a Machines Life Expectancy

Recently, BENCHMARK PDM trainers were called to go a couple of hours northeast to a Utilities company that needed some on-site training for an Easy-Laser shaft alignment tool purchased not long ago. Usually, on-site or “on the job” training sessions aren’t offered because it is hard to teach each tradesmen, mechanic or millwright the specifics of the shaft alignment tool and then do it real-time with them retaining all of the information.

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MAAD Maintenance
Articles & Case Studies

Get MAAD about Maintenance!

How getting a little MAAD can help you with your Maintenance Processes

Most of us have heard enough about Reactive, Preventive, and Predictive Maintenance practices. Well how about Insane Maintenance? Yes that’s right, Insane Maintenance. You see, a definition of insanity is “to do the same thing over and over and to expect a different result”. If you think about it, do we – in the maintenance world – repair equipment only to have it breakdown again and again? How many bearings will be replaced this year in say an industrial area such as Fort McMurray Alberta – the center of Canada’s oil? Or say Sarnia Ontario, known as the chemical valley?  To be honest, I don’t know but an educated guess would be in the millions.

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KSB Pumps Services & Benchmark PDM
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KSB Pumps Services & Benchmark PDM continue their successful partnership

Over the last month or so, Mike Kruis – the Lead Service Technician at KSB Pumps Canada – has been traveling around Ontario to various customers that have their pumps installed at their facilities. These pumps are being newly installed or re-installed after having some work done on them. When the pumps are installed Mike uses his Easy-Laser E710 system to align the pumps shaft to the motors or moveable machines shaft. Below are just a few comments from Mike and also some of the feedback he’s received over the past month or two.

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Another Video Demo on mid-range Shaft Alignment system’s Measurement Options!
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Another Video Demo on mid-range Shaft Alignment system’s Measurement Options!

Just posted the second Easy-Laser E540 video demonstration. We walk you through a basic horizontal shaft to shaft alignment , step-by-step. Except this time we go over different measurement options including softfoot check, Easy-Turn measurement mode, Open-coupling alignment, bolt/base bound options and more. We also discuss the MAAD process of Measure, Analyze, Act & Document. For more videos on alignment and geometric measurement go to our video page here. Enjoy!

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Training Durham College Instructors How to Measure Parallel with a Laser
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Training Durham College Instructors How to Measure Parallel with a Laser

It’s always nice to mix business with pleasure. BENCHMARK PDM and Durham College have been working together for some time over the years on different training sessions with their students, such as teaching shaft to shaft laser alignment. In a recent case, a great opportunity presented itself to train some of the Durham instructors on the difference between using an optical measuring tool (they usually use) and their own geometric laser measurement tool

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