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Student Millwrights: Why not hire one for the summer?

May 11, 20150

Summer is upon us and hopefully the livin’ is easy! For some in the mechanical maintenance world the summer time is a slow time; for others, it’s go go go. For instance, in cement plants they have their maintenance shut down in the winter months when it’s slow because their summer is full steam ahead for production. No matter what industry you’re in, one of your pressing problems is making sure that you have adequate maintenance coverage or man-power over the vacation period.

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First MAAD Training session with Local 2309 Toronto Millwright Union a Success!

April 20, 20150

Our first new MAAD Training session kicked off last week with some great feedback from the participants. For most it was “much better” then expected. One participant said, “I can’t wait for the next opportunity to use this new information!”  Our next Training session is in June. For more information on MAAD training go to our Training page here and contact us now.

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Local Utilities Company knows about Extending a Machines Life Expectancy

March 18, 20150

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 the job” or “on-machine” training sessions only aren’t offered because it is hard to teach each tradesperson, mechanic or millwright the specifics of the shaft alignment tool and then do it real-time with them retaining all of the information in a potentially noisy industrial setting, especially for a larger group.

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MAAD Maintenance
Articles & Case Studies

Get MAAD about Maintenance!

March 16, 20150

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
BENCHMARK PDM News

KSB Pumps Services & Benchmark PDM continue their successful partnership

February 25, 20150

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!
MAAD Training

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

February 20, 20150

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

February 12, 20150

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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Soft Product, Harsh Conditions

August 12, 20140

In my business of providing alignment services, I get to see and work in a lot of harsh environments. In the past, I have written about doing this work in cement plants, which I think are some of the toughest because not only does the cement dust plug up the machines, it’s so abrasive that it wears them out quickly. Recently, I calibrated a laser system that had been used for a long time in a coke plant at a steel mill and I was reminded of just how harsh and very dirty these facilities are. Another example is a plant that makes a nice soft product – but the environment is anything but – it’s a tissue mill. Can you imagine how much nice, soft tissue is used in North America per day? Per hour? Tons! It’s a large industry.

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Multipoint Measurement Method blog
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New E710 Videos for Base Twist and Multipoint-Measurement Method

November 26, 20130

New videos for the Base Twist program and the new Multipoint Method for non-rotating shafts. Watch a free step by step video demo on how to measure base twist/distortion with the Base Twist program in the E710 Shaft alignment system. Also, a new measuring method introduced by Easy-Laser called the Multipoint measuring method allows for measurement of non-rotatable shafts, usually found in larger machines such as turbines. Also, included in this method is the Quality Assessment scale to show the quality of the alignment.

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