Advanced Field Balancing

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This high level, multi-instructor-led course gives participants a deep understanding of balancing methods and confidence with hands-on practice on test rotors.

Duration:

35 hours

Schedule:

days

Delivery:

Audience:

Machinery diagnosticians
Startup engineers
Remote diagnostic center specialists
Plant engineers that oversee field and shop balancing work

Objectives:

Conduct effective balancing of machine trains in the field: calculation of trials, evaluation of results, decision making
Select strategy ensuring minimum disruption costs and proper data quality
Use calculation tools the most applicable to situation, evaluate inputs and outputs and recalculate between balancing methods and data conventions
Analyze balancing processes to more effectively supervise solution weights installation and troubleshoot data integrity problems

Required Prerequisites:

None

Recommended Prerequisites:

Machinery Diagnostics Methodology

Additional Requirements:

None

Program:

Day 1

Fundamentals:

Imbalance and other malfunctions with similar symptoms.
Making the decision, selecting the strategy
Ensuring the repeatability and minimizing non[1]linearity
Trial weight calculations

Basic calculations and conventions:

Vector operations
Locating the position of unbalance
Finding angular location on a rotor
Single plane balancing with workshop

Day 2

Single plane balancing with workshop
Static/couple balancing with workshop
Influence vector method (multiplane) balancing

Day 3

Multiplane Balance Program (MBP)
Workshop: balancing in two planes, using MBP

Day 4

Relation between static/souple and Influence vector methods
Workshop: influence vectors – import, export, recalculation between methods
Balancing for compromise conditions

Day 5

Evaluation of balancing quality: balancing report
Workshop/Examination multiple planes balancing

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