From the initial consultation to on-site alignment, here’s how a ParAlign service unfolds at your facility. Misalignment is often an unseen force in manufacturing, quietly affecting everything from product quality to machine longevity. Even a slight shift…
In automotive aluminum sheet production, every millimeter counts. Even the most minor equipment misalignment can lead to major problems. This issue became a critical point of concern for our customer, a leading global supplier of rolled aluminum…
The rollers represent the core of all dynamic parts found in production lines of various industries. The belt connects the electric motor’s shaft to rollers while rollers’ rotation around the horizontal axis induces the web’s linear motion….
Without sacrificing product quality, large industry-leading companies require their production output to meet market demands. As a key movement initiator, rollers represent the core of the metal, pulp, paper, printing, tire/rubber, and carpet industry’s continuous production mechanism….
Misalignment of rolls on a tire line eventually leads to costly problems such as poor tracking, stretching, wrinkling, uneven coating, and ultimately, product defects. Maintaining the parallelism of rolls is vital to overall production performance of the…
ParAlign is a featured component of Prüftechnik’s Peak Roll and Geometrical Alignment (Peak RGA) service, and a big reason is its exclusive military-grade gyroscope technology. This same technology has been used in aerospace navigation systems, including NASA’s…
A client in Quebec, the second-largest province in Canada, turned to Fluke Reliability’s ParAlign service to fix the roll machines in its plant after noticing product wrinkling and tracking issues during paper production. A team of Prüftechnik…
Only 38 ParAlign roll alignment systems exist worldwide. The critical component of Fluke Reliability’s Peak Roll and Geometrical Alignment (RGA) service features military-grade technology also used in the space shuttle. Each ParAlign device contains three ring laser…
Maintenance and reliability pros know that machine downtime is costly, even if it is for scheduled maintenance. Since time is precious during this period when your assets are locked down, it’s smart to maximize this opportunity proactively…
BFGoodrich, the legendary tire manufacturer, counts itself as a satisfied customer of the Prüftechnik ParAlign roll alignment service, based on the results delivered at its Fort Wayne, Ind., plant. “We have been running a superior product for…