Monday, December 20, 2010

Galvanizing Line Pot Equipment Life

steel mill galvanizing line in the mid west was experiencing severe bearing wear of the pot equipment in the zinc tank. Projected bearing life was 6 weeks, but the mill was stopping production every 2 weeks to replace badly worn bearings and was running very close to complete bearing failure on several occasions.

After attempts to align the pot equipment by a local company using a Laser Tracker failed, AIM was brought in to do a survey of the galvanizing line pot equipment. A one day AIM survey, and corrections based on the survey that day, produced an immediate and dramatic change to the process. Bearing life improved to 8 weeks and strip tracking throughout the pot and tower areas improved as well.

Score: AIM = 1, Laser Tracker = 0

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for the info. It sounds pretty user friendly. I guess I’ll pick one up for fun. thank u.

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