Proper condition monitoring and intervention could have prevented a pump breakdown.
James Laxson, Hi-Speed Industrial Services; Mike Fitch, LUDECA, Inc.
James Laxson is a reliability technician at Hi-Speed Industrial Service, a division of QualiTest Diagnostics. He started with the Millwright Local Union #1544 in 1997 and took classes on turbines, compressors, conveyors, pumps, bearings, alignment, etc. He was trained on laser alignment by LUDECA Inc. while at the Valero Gas Refinery in Memphis, Tenn., where he started performing root cause analyses on pump failures and working with vibration analysis. He is a Vibration-Institute-certified Category II Vibration Analyst and an ITC-certified Level I Infrared Thermographer. He can be reached at jlaxson@hsisco.com. Mike Fitch is a vibration applications engineer for LUDECA, Inc. He can be reached at 305-591-8935 or mike.fitch@ludeca.com.
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