Alignment / Balancing

Alignment
What a difference! Proper alignment is essential to machine reliability.

The bottom spectrum shows a pump that was found to be misaligned and had the resulting worn coupling element.
The top spectrum shows the same pump after it was precision aligned during a scheduled maintenance shutdown.
Spectra were acquired at the pump input shaft.

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UnBalance
Proper balancing of the driven element avoided catastrophic failure of this gearbox, expensive repairs, and most importantly, costly down time. The spectra below were acquired at the output shaft of the gearbox.

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