Rotating Equipment
Rotating equipment is a common type of asset used in a wide variety of industries. In this article, we’ll discuss the different types of rotating equipment and why proper alignment is key to maintaining your assets. What…
Precision Alignment Restores Legacy Print Lines at Tetra Pak Texas
The ParAlign team aligned over 100 rolls across two print lines, overcoming the unique challenges of working with legacy equipment at one of Tetra Pak’s older facilities. Summary Faced with the challenge of working on both a…
What to Expect from a ParAlign Service: A Step-by-Step Guide
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…
When Misalignment Costs Millions: How Tools Like the RotAlign Make a Difference
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…
Quick Fix: ParAlign Services Team Restores Production Line for Automotive Aluminum Leader in 36 Hours
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…
Why roll alignment is so difficult
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….
Why Parallelism of Rolls is Important for High-Speed Machines
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….
ParAlign Roll Alignment System Drives Savings for Global Tire Manufacturer
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…
Exclusive Gyroscope Technology Sets ParAlign Apart
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…
Improving roller alignment and product quality at a Quebec paper plant
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…