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• Reliability and Performance Improvement Services for Industrial Rotating Machinery

• Off-line to Running Machinery Movement Surveys (aka 'hot/cold' alignment or 'thermal' movement)

Applications : Motors, steam turbines, gas turbines, water turbines, compressors, diesels, gears, pumps, fans, generators, cooling towers, rolls, centrifuges, flywheels found in a wide variety of industries.

Reliability and Performance Improvement Services for Industrial Rotating Machinery

We're sure you're keenly aware of what's been happening in industry concerning Prevention / Pro-Active Maintenance programs. If you are not aware of this revolutionary way of controlling your maintenance costs and your busy schedule, then you should seriously consider giving us the opportunity to show you how to step into a whole new approach to maintaining your critical machinery, possibly extending its operating lifespan 2 to 10 times more than today!

Prevention / Pro-Active Maintenance programs can possibly reduce your rotating machinery operating costs by 300% if you are operating in a 'Breakdown' or Run to Failure mode.

How? By using new Predictive and Pro-Active maintenance technologies that can not only pinpoint possible problem areas but once their found, effective prevention techniques insure that similar problems don't re-occur. New methods in Vibration Analysis, Infrared Thermography, Lubrication Analysis, Rotor Balancing, Shaft Alignment, and careful attention to machinery disassembly, reassembly, and installation make all of this possible. This should be of great interest to you since a Prevention / Pro-Active Maintenance Program will save you money by detecting problems before they become catastrophic failures impinging on your production capacity. If problems are encountered, Root Cause Failure Analysis and Prevention Maintenance methods are employed to quickly and effective eliminate the problem from re-occurring again increasing your equipment availability and production capacity.

You see, we take a slightly different philosophy about the type of predictive / prevention maintenance program that we run. In addition to capturing vibration data on the machinery (as well as other pertinent data if desired) and issuing a report on the findings, we delight in the opportunity to assist you in correcting the problems detected. We don't see any sense in just finding problems if there is no intention of fixing them. So we like to get closely involved with the root cause analysis, correction, and prevention phases of this process.

This type of program can only be run by dedicated, enthusiastic, experienced mechanics and engineers that thoroughly understand the machinery they are working with. Our goal is to provide you with a service that will, over time, extend the operating lifespan of your equipment requiring less attention from you.

Our reports are simple, thorough and to the point. As illustrated in a sample report page below, the suspect machine is identified, the severity of the condition is indicated, a problem statement is made with supporting evidence, and a recommended action is stated. The maintenance or contractor personnel assigned to correct the problem can use the form to indicate what was done and a financial analysis can be documented to fincially justify the expense.

• Vibration, Root Cause Failure, and Total Operational Performance Analysis • Application of maintenance and reliability 'best practices' to initial design, purchase, and installation • Rotating machinery mechanical fault detection • Field balancing of rotating machinery • Rotor - bearing system integrity checks • Excessive eccentricity checks • Loose components fits • Inspections for excessive erosion or corrosion to rotors and components • Frame / casing / foundation degradation inspections • Summary of findings and recommendations are made in a written report.

Off-line to Running Machinery Movement Surveys (aka 'hot/cold' alignment or 'thermal' movement)

Field measurements are taken to determine how your machinery is moving from off-line to running conditions. A wide variety of different methods may be employed for these measurements which include ... machine casing surface temperature measurements with coefficients of thermal expansion, inside micrometer / tooling ball, optical, alignment bars with proximity probes, water cooled stands with proximity probes, lasers with plug in - back zeroing targets & mounts, ball-rod-tubing connector system, and/or vernier-strobe method. Final report shows method(s) employed, measurements recorded, desired off-line shaft positions, and recommended future action if required.

Services provided for horizontally or vertically mounted rotating machinery with dual or multiple element drive trains equipped with with flexible or rigid couplings. Preliminary alignment checks include ... soft foot correction, excessive runout and shaft free-play measurements, coupling inspection, and excessive piping or conduit strain checks. Turvac, in concert with your maintenance or contractor personnel, will measure the shaft centerline positions of your rotating machinery and reposition the machinery casings to insure equipment is aligned within acceptable tolerances limits. Final report shows the before and after alignment conditions, mechanical defects encountered, final alignment tolerance, and recommended future action if required.

Services provided for horizontally or vertically mounted rotating machinery with dual or multiple element drive trains equipped with with flexible or rigid couplings. Preliminary alignment checks include ... soft foot correction, excessive runout and shaft free-play measurements, coupling inspection, and excessive piping or conduit strain checks. Turvac, in concert with your maintenance or contractor personnel, will measure the shaft centerline positions of your rotating machinery and determine if the alignment is within acceptable tolerances limits. Final report shows mechanical defects encountered, existing alignment tolerance, and recommended future action if required.