Best Practices Webinar: The Importance of Precision Shaft Alignment

Discussing the real return on investment of properly aligning rotating equipment. As there is a renewed focus on reliability and vibration monitoring, I focus on a root cause. An often-quoted comment is “...why align a machine when it is fitted with a flexible coupling designed to accommodate misalignment?” I will talk about why this one often-overlooked step in machinery maintenance is so important. The real payoff is often larger than you can imagine. Today's Laser alignment systems offer precision that is easy to learn and use giving the younger workforce the ability to replace old methods lost with an aging workforce.
SPEAKER: David Metz
Dave is the Sales Application Manager at Fluke for Pruftechnik alignment products. He has been with Pruftechnik for 7 years and before that, he spent 31 years as a machinist at Exelon working exclusively in power generation. Early years were in Fossil and Hydro units then six years in their mobile turbine gang working on all sizes and types of steam turbines. For the last half, he was stationed at Limerick Nuclear Power Station and traveled to other stations for outage work, Peach Bottom, Oyster Creek, Three Mile Island, and even Hope Creek. Dave spent most of his time working as a millwright in the plant working on equipment and has a lot of experience performing alignments on all types of machines. His alignment expertise began by mastering dial indicator methods and then using Pruftechnik laser tools beginning with the original Optalign and then all of the newer models up to today's Rotalign.