The Rooted in Reliability podcast is a weekly Maintenance and Reliability podcast covering common industry challenges and what you can learn from them. Each episode dives deeper into critical issues and explains where you can begin correcting theses maintenance flaws today. Sharing new tips and techniques to help you achieve industry best practice and shining a light on widely debated maintenance topics with special guest experts.
“Reliable machinery installation” – it sounds like an obvious thing, don’t you agree? But where does reliability actually start?
We all know that “the thing” starts with the design. The design stage decides what is going to be installed. Which equipment, and where. But there is no decision of Who is going to perform the installation, and How it is going to be installed. Most of the time those two departments are not cooperating, especially if they don’t belong to the same organization. The installation teams must be involved in the design because they will provide their feedback for reliable machinery installation. They know exactly how things work out there and how they need to be done.
Recently one of our application experts was asked a question from a colleague on bore alignment. He wanted to know if you could use a shaft alignment system to do bore alignment. The answer was yes, but not without practicing.
Where: 817-46th Street, East Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
When: Thursday, October 10 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Other speakers from RDI Technologies, SKF Canada & ABB
Register by emailing reception@gmrelectric.com before October 4, 2019
Let us review this case study on a common issue when working on a pump and motor alignment done by Brian Franks, Owner and Field Service Technician of JetTech Mechanical (www.jettechmechanical.com).
Figure 1 (above) – John Lambert, Giorgio Tomljanovic and Mauro Regali enjoy a night out during the annual Easy-Laser Sales meeting in 2006.
We recently had a request from a customer to do some pump alignment. When we normally think about pump alignment, we usually think of shaft to shaft alignment. In this case, they wanted bore alignment. They were installing a brand-new pump and when they rotated the shaft, they could hear grinding.Read more
To make it easier for everyone to understand what types of programs, measurement methods and smart functions are included in the Easy-Laser XT Alignment software and app, we put together a few new videos to explain it all.
