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What to Know About Soft Foot: Symptoms, Effects, and Types

November 16, 2024November 16, 2024

Soft foot is a commonly used industry term describing machine frame distortion. It often leads to critical asset faults and is the root cause of most misalignment issues. Soft foot can shorten the lives of electric motors,…

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Roll Alignment

Why roll alignment is so difficult

April 26, 2021June 3, 2024

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….

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Roll Alignment

Why Parallelism of Rolls is Important for High-Speed Machines

March 31, 2021June 3, 2024

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….

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Alignment jobs in challenging environments
Shaft Alignment

How to get alignment jobs done right in mining, lumber, and other challenging environments

March 23, 2021June 8, 2023

Millwright Matt Joinson takes on industrial machinery alignment jobs that would challenge anyone. From dusty, dirty mining sites in freezing weather to sawmills and pulp mills in hot, humid temperatures, Joinson doesn’t back down. He’s ready with…

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Critical to Gravity Probe B were four gyroscopes consisting of spinning spheres of solid fused quartz encased within a quartz housing. The four ping-pong sized rotors required exacting standards of homogeneity (inherent uniformity with minute density variations) as well as mechanical and electrical sphericity. Mechanically, the niobium-coated rotors were within 40 atomic layers (0.3 millionth of an inch) of a perfect sphere. These requirements called for both new manufacturing and measurement techniques. On orbit, spin-up of the rotors was accomplished by pumping a stream of helium gas past them in an intricately machined channel at nearly the speed of sound. Once spinning, the gas was pumped out of the housing creating a vacuum with a pressure lower than the space surrounding the orbiting spacecraft.
Roll Alignment

Exclusive Gyroscope Technology Sets ParAlign Apart

February 16, 2021June 6, 2023

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…

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Roll Alignment

Planned downtime is a good time to check for roller misalignment

February 9, 2021June 4, 2024

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…

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Top 4 reasons to schedule a Peak RGA service during holiday downtime
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Top 4 reasons to schedule a Peak RGA service during holiday downtime

November 30, 2020February 11, 2025

If your facility is scheduling planned downtime during the holiday season, it might be a good time to book a Pruftechnik Peak Roll and Geometrical Alignment (RGA) service. This total alignment solution combines ParAlign gyroscopic technology with…

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Corrugator machine alignment using ParAlign and a Faro laser tracker
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Corrugator machine alignment using ParAlign and a Faro laser tracker

November 5, 2020July 24, 2023

By Chelsea Fiegel Fluke Reliability’s alignment team traveled to a client’s corrugated board production plant to perform an alignment service on a corrugator machine. Implementing a new methodology that required using the Pruftechnik ParAlign Roll Alignment system…

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Pruftechnik Laser Alignment Systems
Shaft Alignment

6 reasons why PRÜFTECHNIK laser alignment systems are No. 1

November 4, 2020June 4, 2024

Laser shaft alignment is the fastest, most precise way to align rotating equipment.  Prüftechnik, the inventor of laser shaft alignment, leads the way for cutting-edge technology, including our exclusive, game-changing Single-laser technology. Here’s a quick overview of…

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Customer loves his ROTALIGN Touch: “This tool is not going to let me down”

November 2, 2020August 28, 2024

Not everyone relishes doing difficult jobs at work. But Matt Joinson, owner-operator of Jaffray Millwright and Welding located in Jaffray, British Columbia, enjoys projects that may seem daunting. “I like them all to be a little bit…

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