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Bearings

Aligning With Preventative Maintenance to Ensure Healthy Equipment

Proper procedures now can prevent problems later.

IMAGE 1 Electric-driven pump package in a mining application (Image courtesy of Franklin Electric Company, Inc.)

Pumps

Why Permanent Alignment Is Important in Electric-Driven Pump Packages

Rigid motor stool designs can offer time and cost savings.

The use of skid-based designs, compounded with reciprocating driven components and complex piping structures, leaves many with a time-consuming and complicated issue. How do users efficiently and effectively monitor and ensure the safe, reliable operations of every component? Are the rotating components the most critical? Or is the structure and piping just as important? What about instrumentation? Each of these questions is answered differently when using standard monitoring equipment. Each test and measu

Instrumentation/Controls

What Is Motion Amplification?

Visualizing vibration through motion amplification allows users to diagnose critical equipment and improve asset reliability.

shaft alignment

Pumps

New ANSI/ASA Shaft Alignment Standard Adopted

The standard addresses basic mounting, base issues and more.

IMAGE 1: Faults in pumps can be detected months in advance. Using vibration or temperature data, users can identify trends that can be used to screen for potential problems. (Image courtesy of Fluke Reliability)

Pumps

Using Vibration Data to Predict & Prevent Failure

Vibration analysis and condition monitoring can be used together and can offer a substantial return on investment.

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Motors

Podcast: New Shaft Alignment Standard With Gene Vogel of EASA

Podcast also hits on the June 2022 issue of Pumps & Systems.

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Never Lose Alignment Again in Electric Pump Packages

How you can save time and money by using electric packages with a modular design.

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Pumps

Common Pump Failure Factors

How bearings, couplings and seals fail—and how to fix them.

Basics of System Alignment vs. Balancing

Pumps

Basics of System Alignment vs. Balancing

Differentiating between misalignment and imbalance is essential to identifying the cause of pump failure.

How to Check Alignment of Flexible Couplings

Pumps

How to Check Alignment of Flexible Couplings

Laser alignment systems and other tools

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