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Benefits of Shaft Alignment

Reduce machinery breakdowns and increase your uptime with correct shaft alignment.

Shaft misalignment is responsible for up to 50% of all costs related to rotating machinery breakdowns. Accurately aligning shafts can prevent machinery breakdowns and reduce unplanned downtime that results in a loss of production.

The consequences of misaligned shafts in rotating machinery can be severe and include expensive unscheduled downtime, loss of production, increased energy consumption, overheating, vibration, premature wear and tear and increased maintenance or replacement costs.

Laser Alignment Services

At Aquip, we have a team of flexible and highly experienced Service Engineers with current HUET training to mobilise on short notice to your local or offshore facility.

Laser Alignment Report

Our team of experts have over 30 years of experience and are well positioned to assess your on site equipment and provide recommendations for best practice. As part of the service, our team will provide you with a Laser Alignment Report upon completion of the alignment which can be tailored to suit your requirements.

With over 25 years of experience in the rotating machinery industry, we can assist with basic pump-motor alignments through to complex laser shaft alignment services such as gas turbines and multi-machine train setups.

If you have your own PRÜFTECHNIK equipment on site, we will ensure your instrumentation is set up correctly to maximise its full potential. We are able to update your Pruftechnik handsets and ensure your firmware is current. Having the most recent firmware on your equipment unlocks newly released features and improves the capabilities of your equipment.

Aquip are available 24 hours a day if you require technical advice or require any of our specialised services.

What is shaft alignment?

“At the point of power transfer from one shaft to another, the axes of rotation of both shafts should be collinear when the machine is running under normal operating conditions…..”

Incorrect and correct shaft alignment

  • Parallel misalignment (or offset)
  • Angular misalignment
  • Correct alignment

The possible consequences of shaft misalignment are serious to any company’s bottom line and include:

  • Increased friction and thereby energy consumption
  • Premature bearing and seal failure
  • Premature shaft and coupling failure
  • Excessive seal lubricant leakage
  • Failure of coupling and foundation bolts
  • Increased vibration and noise

Our capabilities include:

  • Pump-motors
  • Cardan shafts
  • Gear boxes
  • Multi machine trains
  • Multi couplings
  • Complex conveyor drives
  • Compressors
  • Gas turbines
  • Analysis for Asset Management
  • Training
  • Maintenance Assessment
  • Laser Alignment Report
  • Pump Alignment

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