Vibralign Blog

Why You Should Perform Shaft Alignment as Part of Your PM

Precision Shaft Alignment| PM| predictive maintenance| Preventive maintance

By Stan Riddle on December 27, 2017

James Pekarek, one of our trainers, wrote a blog entitled “Performing Alignment Checks as Part of Your Preventive Maintenance”. https://vibralign.com/shaft-alignment/performing-alignment-checks-part-preventive-maintenance/ It is a great article, and good advice.  I recently shared this blog post, and the advice, with a customer of ours.  Here’s why. I taught a training class at a large water plant in […]

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Maintenance Strategies, Part Three – Predictive Maintenance

predictive maintenance| machinery vibration| ONEPROD Hawk| machinery diagnostics| condition monitoring

By Mac MacCormack on February 21, 2017

Predictive Maintenance, also known as Condition Based Maintenance or affectionately known as “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” also has its own set of pro’s and con’s. The pro’s: Rotating equipment usually gives warning signs before failure. Vibration level or pattern changes, rise in temperature, wear detected via oil analysis, performance change, motor current […]

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