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Laser Alignment of Rotating Machinery

Misalignment is one of the most common and destructive faults in rotating machinery, and yet one of the simplest to identify and correct. MMS engineers use the latest technology to align rotating machine to the tightest tolerances high speed machinery demands. This is sometimes from our own condition monitoring work, often vibration analysis.

The correct alignment of machinery couplings of fans, pulleys, blowers, pumps compressors and gearboxes is crucial to prolonged life of the machine and will greatly reduce failures and unscheduled stoppages. Misalignment which is not rectified may have destructive consequences on:

• Bearings
• Seals
• Belts & pulleys
• Shafts
• Couplings
• Drives
• Impellers

Condition Monitoring is about capturing these potential failures early using predictive maintenance

Accurate Alignment will provide these long term benefits:

• Improved machine reliability and productivity.
• Reduced machine repair costs
• Reduced labour costs
• Reduced power consumption of machinery
• Minimization of machine installation and repair time.
• Allow verification of machine performance throughout the machine life.

Ask for our Alignment Standards document by clicking the ‘Contact Us’ tab.

Machine Monitoring Systems Ltd
Unit 4, Business Point
PO Box 92
Bicester
Oxfordshire, UK
OX26 5EW

Call. 01869 250 801
Fax. 01869 250 802

News

MMS wins contract at Staythorpe Power Station

MMS is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract to setup a comprehensive Condition Monitoring system at the new Staythorpe combined-cycle-gas turbine (CCGT) Power Station.

The station, owned by RWE, will have four generating units, which will be successively commissioned by the end of November 2010.

Once completed, the CCGT will have four generating units capable of producing around 1,650MW of electricity – enough to power around two million homes. It will reduce average annual CO2 emissions by up to 7.5 million tonnes compared to an existing coal-fired power station producing the same amount of electricity.