Top 4 mistakes made when precision balancing
Tom Hoenig of GTI Predictive Technology discusses the four most common issues when doing precision balancing, discussing such issues as clockwise vs. counter-clockwise balancing, the lack of a tachometer signal, proper orientation of the accelerometer and tachometer, and misalignment or looseness.
03/09/2017
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The Top Plant program honors outstanding manufacturing facilities in North America. View the 2017 Top Plant.
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The Product of the Year program recognizes products newly released in the manufacturing industries.
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Each year, a panel of Control Engineering and Plant Engineering editors and industry expert judges select the System Integrator of the Year Award winners in three categories.
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2017 Product of the Year winners, retrofitting a press, IMTS and Hannover Messe preview, natural refrigerants, testing steam traps
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ROVs, rigs, and the real time; wellsite valve manifolds; AI on a chip; analytics use for pipelines
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Focus on power systems, process safety, electrical and power systems, edge computing in the oil & gas industry
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Product of the Year winners, Pattern recognition, Engineering analytics, Revitalize older pump installations
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Implementing a DCS, stepper motors, intelligent motion control, remote monitoring of irrigation systems
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Annual Salary Survey
Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
But the year started with global economic turmoil, as a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing triggered a worldwide stock hiccup that sent values plummeting. The continued plunge in world oil prices has resulted in a slowdown in exploration and, by extension, the manufacture of exploration equipment.
Read more: 2015 Salary Survey
Maintenance and reliability tips and best practices from the maintenance and reliability coaches at Allied Reliability Group.
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The One Voice for Manufacturing blog reports on federal public policy issues impacting the manufacturing sector. One Voice is a joint effort by the National Tooling and Machining...
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Join this ongoing discussion of machine guarding topics, including solutions assessments, regulatory compliance, gap analysis...
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IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS Inc., is a leading independent supplier of market research and consultancy to the global electronics industry.
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Maintenance is not optional in manufacturing. It’s a profit center, driving productivity and uptime while reducing overall repair costs.
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The Lachance on CMMS blog is about current maintenance topics. Blogger Paul Lachance is president and chief technology officer for Smartware Group.
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The maintenance journey has been a long, slow trek for most manufacturers and has gone from preventive maintenance to predictive maintenance.
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This digital report explains how plant engineers and subject matter experts (SME) need support for time series data and its many challenges.
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This digital report will explore several aspects of how IIoT will transform manufacturing in the coming years.
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This course focuses on climate analysis, appropriateness of cooling system selection, and combining cooling systems.
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This course will help identify and reveal electrical hazards and identify the solutions to implementing and maintaining a safe work environment.
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This course explains how maintaining power and communication systems through emergency power-generation systems is critical.
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