Electrical & Industrial Maintenance Training

Shaft Alignment (INDT 127)

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Approved for 14 Hours – Renewal Training Credit (RTC)

Description

This intensive two-day seminar will provide attendees with skills to align two-shaft systems accurately (such as motors and pumps). Because there is no single way to align machinery correctly, the advantages and disadvantages of several methods will be taught. Accurate alignment of equipment will result in increased bearing life, reduced downtime and savings on maintenance costs. Additionally, correctly aligning these types of two-shaft systems offers you the payoff of saving money on electrical bills. If your machinery is misaligned just a few millimeters, your plant energy costs could be thousands of dollars higher each month.

You will learn

  1. To recognize equipment not properly aligned.
  2. To recognize and correct for pipe stress.
  3. To check shaft runout.
  4. To determine if soft foot is present and correct it.
  5. To correct bar sag.
  6. To align rotating equipment using multiple alignment methods including rim-and-face and reverse dial.

Who will benefit

  • Maintenance mechanics
  • Electrical maintenance personnel needing to cross train
  • Industrial equipment salespersons
  • Operators wanting to move into maintenance positions
  • Supervisors and managers responsible for maintenance personnel

Topics

  1. What Do I Need To Know?
    • Types of misalignment
    • Misalignment and machinery component failure
    • Accuracy of the alignment
    • Frequency of checking alignment
    • Cold vs. hot alignment
    • Common methods of checking
  2. How Do I Do It?
    • Pre-alignment checks
    • Correcting for pipe stress
    • Measuring shaft runout
    • Correcting soft foot
    • Methods
    • Rim-and-face
    • Reverse dial indicator
  3. What About Lasers?
    • Pros and cons
    • Demonstration using laser

Your instructor

Jeff Bradford is the lead instructor and program coordinator for Joliet Junior College’s Industrial Maintenance Technology Program. He is President of Bradford and Associates, a consulting firm specializing in technical, safety and quality training. Jeff graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Vocational Education Studies from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and holds a Master of Science degree in Adult and Continuing Education from Northern Illinois University. He holds a Stationary Engineer’s License in both Chicago and Elgin, Illinois.

Jeff’s areas of expertise include: industrial fluid power, pipefitting, boilers, rigging, power transmission and pumps, compressors and turbines. He has hands-on experience in each of these disciplines and has developed curriculum and taught courses on all these topics. Jeff developed and taught maintenance courses at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, for which he was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal.

You will receive a copy of the 408-page text Industrial Mechanics ($50 list price).

In-House Training Available

For additional information about in-house training, please call Amy Murphy at (815) 280-1418 or email amurphy@jjc.edu

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