V-Belt & Sheave Training Course

Course Objectives

This one-day course is designed to assist the attendee in finding, fixing, and preventing problems with belt driven rotating machinery. It is an excellent course for engineering and maintenance managers, foremen, technicians, and trades personnel to give them a comprehensive information to select, install, and operate belt driven equipment for successful long term operation. Information from several failures on this type of machinery is presented to illustrate how problems get started, how they progress, why they occurred, and how they could have been prevented.

- Advantages and disadvantages of transmitting power through V-belts

- V-belt and sheave sizes and cross section design standards

- Rules of thumb for selecting, installing, and operating V-belt drives

- Proper installation of sheaves

- How to measuring sheave runout and determine if it is at an unacceptable level

- Special precautions for taper lock designs

- Sheave alignment methods (traditional and laser systems)

- How to achieve the proper belt tension

- Visual inspections for belt and sheave wear

- Vibration analysis of belt driven machinery

- Vibration reduction techniques on belt driven machinery