Fixturlaser Pre-Alignment App

The Fixturlaser Probe performs a number of tasks to assist your team in improving machine health, quicker and easier. Live readout of machine position or condition ensures actions taken by your maintenance engineers are accurate and traceable, thereby ensuring machine life-expectancy is improved. Part of one’s pre-alignment procedure should include checking & documenting:-

Lift
Runout
Pipe Strain
Softcheck™

With Fixturlaser Probe, you can easily measure and save all results either on their own or as part of the machine's total health profile, including shaft alignment results and vibration status using our Bearing Defender and Machine Defender.

Run Out

Lift Check

Runout is the total indicator reading (TIR) of an instrument measured over the full rotation of a shaft or coupling.
This means the runout value is a combination of several types of error motions, form errors and form factors, shape of the shaft, straightness of the shaft, errors in the axis of rotation and errors in the location of the shaft relative to the axis of rotation.

Lift Check

The Lift check function allows you to check bearing clearances and machine movement due to pipe strain.
Check for a loose pump base.
Perform a lift check, to check for excessive bearing clearance.
Measure for thermal and dynamic changes on piping, bases or other structures.

Fixturlaser Softcheck™

It is very difficult, if not impossible, to establish a soft foot condition without the use of some kind of measuring tool.
A softfoot condition needs to be corrected before alignment takes place. If not, the measurement result will be unreliable and the machine difficult to align.
The Softcheck™ program is entered via the Main Menu or from the Settings menu in the Application program.
The Fixturlaser Alignment System’s built-in Softcheck™ program checks each foot individually and displays the results in mm.

Pipe Strain

Fixturlaser Softcheck™

Pipe strain is unwanted pressure or movement in piping systems.
Pipe strain can be a complex issue as it can cause problems such as:-

Misalignment of coupled machinery.
Machine casing distortion.
Excessive thrust or radial loading of bearings, seals, gears, and other machine components.
Excessive vibration of piping systems and possible transmission of vibration into the building or surrounding machinery.