Few alignment tasks demand the level of precision that bore positioning does. Across large turbines, even minor deviations in centerline position can have measurable effects—wearing down bearings, increasing vibration, and cutting into efficiency over time. Given the…
Bore alignment doesn’t grab headlines, but anyone who’s worked with turbines, compressors, or heavy rotating equipment knows just how critical it is. A slight misalignment—fractions of a millimeter—can lead to excessive wear, energy loss, and expensive downtime….
Summary A leading turbine manufacturer’s service team and Pruftechnik specialists used CENTRALIGN® to align a 550 MW steam turbine, cutting assembly time in half while achieving precision within ±0.03 mm. What would happen if a service team…
Wind turbines operate in some of the harshest conditions on Earth. Keeping them in optimal running condition is a challenge for any team — but drive train alignment presents unique hurdles and is one of the toughest…
Diagnosing and correcting shaft runout can extend the lifespan of your assets and reduce your overall maintenance costs. But all too often, maintenance teams overlook this issue. Fortunately, using the right tools makes it easy to check…
Blown film manufacturing is plagued by costly issues such as product defects, downtime, and wasted film. All of these issues point to a single solution: precision alignment. Production is fast-paced in the highly competitive blown film industry,…
Technology and advanced tools are enabling maintenance teams to address shaft misalignment faster and easier. Shaft misalignment happens when two rotating shafts are not parallel to one another, or are parallel but offset in different planes. This…
There’s nothing like losing $3 million in two days to make you rethink the importance of alignment. I learned this the hard way when two vital cooling water pumps suddenly failed at a plant I was working…
RotAlign Touch is the flagship laser alignment tool from Prüftechnik, a complete system that delivers maximum value and ROI for your alignment work.
In the competitive landscape of industrial machinery maintenance, the role of shaft and coupling alignment is often understated yet crucial. This process, pivotal in sectors such as oil & gas and discrete manufacturing, is the linchpin of…