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¿Alinear ejes cardan?

  • Posted on: 12 July 2021
  • By: carloscollantes

La pregunta sobre si se deben alinear ejes cardan o no es más común de lo que muchos podrían pensar. Además, lamentablemente existen creencias erradas sobre la alineación de ejes cardan, por lo que te invitamos a que nos permitas aclarar las dudas relacionadas con alinear ejes cardan.

Para entender mejor si el alineamiento de ejes cardan está justificado y porqué, veamos primero algunos detalles importantes sobre estos ejes.

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Tareas previas a la alineación de ejes con láser

  • Posted on: 19 May 2021
  • By: carloscollantes

Al realizar alineación de ejes con láser, existen una serie de tareas que se deben realizar previamente con la intención de asegurar que todo salga según lo planeado y que el eje quede bien alineado sin problemas. Le invitamos a que siga leyendo para aprender cuáles son las tareas previas a la alineación de ejes con láser.

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Soft Foot in Rotating Machinery

  • Posted on: 5 May 2021
  • By: carloscollantes

Although it is usually completely ignored during maintenance activities, the soft foot in rotating machinery is a significant problem that must be detected and corrected before it creates bigger problems and severe damage to the machines.

What is the soft foot?

The soft foot is a problem found in rotating machinery, which can be compared with the problem found in a chair that has a longer or shorter leg than the rest. In the case of a soft foot in rotating machinery, it is also possible to find a foot with a different angle, bent, warped, twisted, or damaged baseplate.

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Effects of Piping in Vibration Analysis

  • Posted on: 30 November 2020
  • By: Carlos E. Torres

Vibration analysts may consider the effect of piping when analyzing pumps, compressors or any other asset type connected to a pipe. The mass of the machine is usually small compared to the mass of the piping and its fluid. Some issues can be caused by piping, not by machinery failures. The two typical issues caused by piping are misalignment and resonance. Ideally, disconnecting piping while running the machine should be enough to discard a problem caused by piping if the vibration level changes significantly. 

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Efectos de las tuberías en el análisis de vibraciones

  • Posted on: 30 November 2020
  • By: Carlos E. Torres

Los analistas de vibraciones pueden considerar el efecto de las tuberías al analizar bombas, compresores o cualquier otro tipo de activo conectado a una tubería. La masa de la máquina suele ser pequeña en comparación con la masa de la tubería y su fluido. Algunos problemas pueden ser causados ​​por tuberías, y no siempre por fallos en la maquinaria. Los dos problemas típicos causados ​​por las tuberías son la desalineación y la resonancia.

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Alineación de rodillos en industria del acero

  • Posted on: 8 June 2020
  • By: Lorenzo Soler

Para aquellos que estéis medianamente familiarizados con la industria del metal, sabéis que el acero se procesa en bobinas. Pues bien, el procesamiento del acero se realiza en gran parte mediante rodillos, ya sea en frío o caliente.

El acero es la aleación del Hierro y el Carbono.  Hasta aquí es lo que yo sabía antes de empezar a realizar trabajos de alineación de rodillos en la industria del acero.

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Roll Alignment in the Steel Industry

  • Posted on: 8 June 2020
  • By: Lorenzo Soler

For those of you who are fairly familiar with the steel industry, you may know that steel is processed in coils. Well, steel processing is mostly done by rollers, either hot or cold.

Steel is the alloy of Iron and Carbon. So far, this is what I knew before I started doing roll alignment work in the steel industry.

And this is what I've learned over time. To manufacture steel, a mixture of iron ore (with impurities) and a fuel called coke can be poured into a blast furnace. If it is made from scrap metal, it is previously melted in an electric blast furnace.

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If You're Going to Align a Coupled Shaft Fan, Read This Before

  • Posted on: 30 April 2020
  • By: Lorenzo Soler

Fans in the industry can be found in a wide variety of sizes and for different applications. In this article, I refer specifically to fans with direct coupling to the motor.

First of all, a little context. We all have an intuitive understanding of what a fan is for. The vast majority of industry fans use radial fans, which have a slightly different operating principle than axial fans, which we are probably familiar with from domestic applications. Thus, it is common to find radial fans in the industry for circulation or transport of air or gases, gases exhausting, or for cooling.

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