The Importance of Precision Shaft Alignment

Fluke Reliability Radio

Discussing the real return on investment of properly aligning rotating equipment. As there is a renewed focus on reliability and vibration monitoring, I focus on a root cause. An often-quoted comment is “...why align a machine when it is fitted with a flexible coupling designed to accommodate misalignment?” I will talk about why this one often overlooked step in machinery maintenance is so important. The real payoff is often larger than you can imagine. Todays Laser alignment systems offer precision that is easy to learn and use giving the younger workforce the ability to replace old methods that are lost with an aging workforce.

Speaker:

David Metz, Sales Application Manager, Alignment Solutions

Dave is the Sales Application Manager at Fluke for Prüftechnik alignment products. He has been with Prüftechnik for 7 years and before that he spent 31 years as a machinist at Exelon working exclusively in power generation. Early years were in Fossil and Hydro units then six years in their mobile turbine gang working on all size and types of steam turbines. For the last half he was stationed at Limerick Nuclear power station and traveled to other stations for outage work, Peach Bottom, Oyster Creek, Three Mile Island and even Hope Creek. Dave spent most of his time working as a millwright in the plant working on equipment and has a lot of experience performing alignments on all types of machines. His alignment expertise began by mastering dial indicator methods then using Prüftechnik laser tools beginning with the original Optalign then all of the newer models up to todays Rotalign.

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