Machinery will need balancing from time to time. Among the key periods are when we have major rehabilitation and re-assembly works or during new installations and commissioning. Other instances can arise during normal maintenance and operation of equipment. Ensuring equipment is properly aligned is important in both prolonging the life and allowing for efficient operations.

The course is designed to help course participants identify various alignment problems and how to fix them. Identification of imbalance and how to rectify it is also dealt with. The course draws on strong aspects of practical work with use of appropriate tools and standards as being practiced in industry.

The objective of this course is to:

· Provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to work on various machinery alignment and balancing problems.

At the end of this training programme, course participants shall be able to:

· Explain the basics of alignment;

· Use dial indicators and perform alignment checks;

· Carry out soft checks and corrections;

· Carry out alignment corrections;

· Explain machine movements;

· Perform amplitude and phase readings;

· Carry out machine balancing.

1) Basics of Alignment

2) Dial Indicators and Alignment Checks

3) Soft Checks and Corrections

4) Alignment and Correction Methods

5) Machine Movements

6) Amplitude and Phase Readings

7) Machinery Balancing Methods.

Participant’s profile or target groups are Engineers, Technologists, Technicians and other suitably qualified personnel.