ROTALIGN Touch is the first cloud-enabled touchscreen laser shaft alignment system with integrated mobile connectivity.
Live Trend monitors machine displacement during operation including run-up and coast-down.
This allows determining the positional change of a machine, or the relative positional change of coupled machines over time, and relating it to process-related or external parameters or events.
With Live Trend, you can precisely determine the real thermal growth compensation values. The ‘cold’ alignment targets recommended by manufacturers do not reflect the actual operating condition of a running machine. After startup, machines change their initial position as a result of dynamic loads. Therefore good alignment when the machine is cold is not necessarily the best alignment when the machine is running. In order to achieve the perfect alignment when the machine is up, compensation values have to be determined, thus allowing for a misalignment when the machine is cold.
- Gas turbines
- Steam turbine
- Boiler feed pumps
- Expanders
- High temperature fans, pumps
Real-Time Monitoring of Alignment Changes
Cold to hot, hot to cold or running under varying load conditions.
Alignment Monitoring
Monitoring of machinery alignment changes due to thermal growth, pipe strain, operating loads and foundation settling, both relative and absolute.
Running on the ROTALIGN Ultra iS platform, the Live Trend add-on module monitors machine displacement during operation including run-up and coast-down.
This allows determining the positional change of a machine, or the relative positional change of coupled machines over time, and relating it to process-related or external parameters or events.
With Live Trend, you can precisely determine the real thermal growth compensation values. The ‘cold’ alignment targets recommended by manufacturers do not reflect the actual operating condition of a running machine. After startup, machines change their initial position as a result of dynamic loads. Therefore good alignment when the machine is cold is not necessarily the best alignment when the machine is running. In order to achieve the perfect alignment when the machine is up, compensation values have to be determined, thus allowing for a misalignment when the machine is cold.
Coupled machines where shaft alignment may be affected by thermal growth or dynamic movement
- Simultaneous monitoring of vertical and horizontal machine displacement
- Continuous monitoring of thermal growth during run-up or coast-down phase
- No need to adjust components during measurement and running of machines
- Continuous measurement of machine displacement
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