Error Proof Quick Mating Part Location And Alignment. For speedy and easy maintenance it is best to design equipment with a means to insure accurate and exact location of contacting parts. This removes the opportunity for alignment errors during rebuilds and speeds-up maintenance overhauls. In this article is a sketch of two common methods used to provide positive and certain location and alignment between mating parts.
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The 7 Steps to Proper Machinery Alignment
How to Ensure Your Assets are Installed to Prevent Premature Failure
How many times has an asset been installed or commissioned, only to have it fail in a few days or months when it should have lasted even longer? If you look at the study by Nowlan & Heap, they have found that only 11% of failures are age related, so when is happening with these assets? The answer… comes down to poor installation practices.
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Ensuring Equipment Doesn’t Grow Out of Alignment
Understanding & Compensating for Thermal Growth
A major asset is being installed, and the asset is vital to the success of a brand new, high-profit product being introduced to the site. This product is enough to keep the site operational for many years to come. The installation of the asset is critical, and there is extensive prep work to eliminate soft foot, ensuring the base is flat (using geometric measurement) and that the asset is aligned properly.
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RRP 044 Precision Alignment with Adam Stredel
RRP 044 Precision Alignment with Adam Stredel
This week is another 2 part episode. In the first part, I welcome on Maureen Gribble from UE Systems to give us some details on their conference, Reliable Asset World/Ultrasound World, May 14-17, 2019. I’ll be there and I’ll be podcasting so if you’re heading to that conference, come say hi.
In the second part, I welcome on Adam Stredel from Ludeca to talk all things precision alignment. Adam breaks down soft foot, thermal expansion and gives us his top tips on laser alignment.
I’m still looking for new opportunities in reliability and maintenance so if you hear of any positions that you think I would be suitable for, please let me know at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
Also, I have put up a survey pinned to the top of the Rob’s Reliability Project page on LinkedIn and I would appreciate it if you filled it out. It’s a short survey and I will read all answers so any feedback about topics that you’d like to hear, content that you liked or disliked and how I can serve you better would be greatly appreciated. Link to survey – https://goo.gl/forms/fsABmgBp5YMyIn4I3
I got feedback from Gerard Wood about my microphone popping. First off, thanks Gerard for the feedback. I have tried to remedy the situation with my setup but it hasn’t appeared to work. I have ordered a new microphone which will arrive tomorrow, however, I have some episodes in the tank so you’ll have to give me 5-6 weeks before it gets cleared up. I apologize for the audio quality over those next few weeks and then we’ll be in the clear.
Now let’s get started on the episode. We have Maureen Gribble up first speaking about Reliable Asset World and then Adam Stredel breaks down precision alignment. Let’s go.
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Precision Alignment
Precision Alignment
Scheduled for July 13, 2021, at 8 am US Pacific time
A 1-hour live webinar, recording available after the event
Speaker: Terry Harris
Cost: $45
A Reliable Process Solutions 1-hour webinar event focused on providing you with practical content to improve your reliability program today.
This webinar includes a presentation and discussion on:
- Belt Alignment Fundamentals
- Conveyor Alignment Fundamentals
- Coupling Alignment Fundamentals
- Energy use associated with alignment
About Terry
Mr. Harris is a Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional, certified through The Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals. Mr. Harris worked in the manufacturing/process industry for 26 years. He had devoted the majority of this time to maintenance area efforts with most of his career being devoted to improving the reliability of his plant and other US and European locations. Mr. Harris has been a reliability consultant for 14 years and has performed training in the US and 30 other countries.
Sign up is direct with Reliable Process Solutions. After payment, they will forward the link for the GotoWebinar event or provided access to the recording. There are also options to buy bundles of webinars (3 for $135, 6 for $215 and all 12 in the year for $335. You determine which 3 or 6 topics you’d like to include in your bundle.
Event Registration $45 for this 1-hour event
SMRP18 – Precision Alignment with Adam Stredel
Precision Alignment with Adam Stredel
Precision alignment plays a vital role in preventing premature failures and keeping the equipment up and running. Precision alignment can be defined as when the rotation with the center-align of the equipment is as collinear as possible. There can be a tolerance in the alignment depending upon the operating conditions. There are different types of tools to measure the misalignment but precision alignment using the laser is becoming trendy in the organizations. They are moving from old tools like straight edge and want to make sure that there is accuracy in the measurement. Even a dial indicator works just fine for alignment.
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Shaft Alignment on Pumps
Shaft alignment on pumps. Shaft misalignment is one of the most common reasons for bearing and mechanical seal failures. Rotating misaligned shafts produce vibration and complex fluctuating radial and axial loads that lead to breakdowns. Shaft alignment is a precision maintenance requirement that requires exacting care and detail and if not performed will cause much production down time.
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30 – The Importance of Proper Installation: Starting with Pulley & Sprocket Alignment with John Lambert
The Importance of Proper Installation: Starting with Pulley & Sprocket Alignment with John Lambert
In this episode of the weekly podcast, the guest John lambert is talking about the condition based maintenance which means that you can take maintenance measures based upon the condition of your equipment. In simple words, you can maintain your equipment by analyzing the installation process, alignment of the equipment, and that sort of factors.
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19 – The Role of Alignment in Precision Maintenance with Alan Luedeking
The Role of Alignment in Precision Maintenance with Alan Luedeking
In today’s episode, our guest is Alan Luedeking and the topic of discussion is alignment and precision maintenance. The first thing that pops up into the mind is that where to start with the precision maintenance. The first step can be keeping all of your equipment aligned because that really helps to avoid common problems in equipment. The alignment saves you a lot of money, increases the productivity, and efficiency. After this, we can start monitoring activities all along the way.
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ISO 31000 Monitoring and Review – Final
Guest Post by Peter Holtmann (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)
This article is the final of fourteen parts to our risk management series. The series will be taking a look at the risk management guidelines under the ISO 31000 Standard to help you better understand them and how they relate to your own risk management activities. In doing so, we’ll be walking through the core aspects of the Standard and giving you practical guidance on how to implement it.
In previous articles we’ve looked at the core elements of the risk management framework and the role of leadership and commitment, integration, design, implementation, evaluation and improvement more specifically. We’ve also briefly looked at the risk management process in a general sense, the importance of communication and consultation, how to set your scope, context and criteria, identifying, analysing and evaluating risks, and monitoring and reviewing risks. In this article, we’ll be looking at recording and reporting risks.
[Read more…]Getting results – Change Can be a Rocky Road
To get different results of any kind, we need to make changes. As human beings we are very good at change, but not so good at “being changed”. If we want it, it will happen. If we don’t want it, we will resist.
Physical asset performance is a result of having a robust and reliable design to begin with, the right maintenance executed the right way, and operation within the assets’ performance limits. In an existing operation, the design is fixed already. Maintenance and operations however, are not, and can often be improved, usually with considerable effort. That effort however, can be well worth it.
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Two Obstacles to Continuous Improvement
I believe that there are two fundamental reasons that I share in this episode of Way of the Quality Warrior podcast: lack of imagination and lack of alignment.
There is a reference to the book The Power of Positive Parenting by Dr. Glenn Latham. It’s not just for parents—authority figures can use this, too.
I talk about GE and Jack Welch. Much of what I think is expressed by David Gelles in his book Jack Welch: The Man Who Broke Capitalism . Gelles was interviewed by Jeffrey Pfeffer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2022. Here’s the link: David Gelles Interview–Stanford 2022 (YouTube)
I also talk about Boeing (a company that has had multiple leaders from GE who worked under Jack Welch). John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight (HBO) episode about Boeing’s history and decline is entertaining, thorough, and sound.
You can contact the podcast host, Keith Fong, at the website Way of the Quality Warrior
A Systematic Process of Data Collection
Article first posted at Conscious Reliability by James Reyes-Picknell, Jesus Sifonte, and team.
Condition Monitoring – A Closer Look
By Jesús R. Sifonte
Condition Monitoring is a broad term referring to the systematic process of data collection for the evaluation of asset’s performance, reliability and maintenance needs with the purpose of planning repair works. Its main purpose is Potential Failures finding. It requires the collection of good asset’s health data which trending is studied. The primary advantage of Condition Monitoring is that it incorporates health indicator monitoring activities performed while the machine is operating. Assets failures are predicted well in advance of their occurrence. It allows for planning repairs safely and economically for the plant. Also, machine parameter data trending allows extending assets operation as close as possible to their actual useful life. Condition Monitoring data provides vital information for taking important decisions affecting plant operation goals. Maintenance decisions are taken based on the actual asset condition avoiding unnecessary repairs leading to start up failures. Catastrophic failures of a critical assets presenting accelerated wear trends can be avoided by using C tasks too. Sometimes operating conditions changes causing components life expectance to reduce as noted by steeper indicators trends leading to unexpected catastrophic failures. This can be detected by CM and earlier planned shutdowns can avoid such disasters.
[Read more…]Communication and Consultation in ISO 31K Risk Management
Guest Post by Peter Holtmann (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)
This article is the ninth of fourteen parts to our risk management series. The series will be taking a look at the risk management guidelines under the ISO 31000 Standard to help you better understand them and how they relate to your own risk management activities. In doing so, we’ll be walking through the core aspects of the Standard and giving you practical guidance on how to implement it.