Accelerometers South Africa

Metals Industry

As the pressure on the steel industry continues to be applied across the globe, the need for more and more effective plants with 100% availability becomes a higher priority for senior management. AVS and Hansford Sensors are committed to helping customers with the problem of monitoring plant machinery. Typical areas that have been commonly monitored include rolling mills, drives, gearboxes and cooling towers. Before...

Paper Industry

Traditionally the paper industry is very well developed in applying vibration monitoring to oversee the health of the main machine and any ancillary equipment. Over a number of years Hansford Sensors has supplied many thousands of sensors into this area of industry. As a supplier of accelerometers, one of the toughest challenges we encounters is providing sensors which will withstand the harsh conditions that exist...

Food & Drink Process...

The food and drink processing industry uses a broad range of equipment in its manufacturing process including mixers, centrifuges, pumps, motors, air compressors, ovens, fans and conveyors. A wide range of speeds can be present, but in the main a standard 100mV/g AC sensor (HS-100 Series) or 4-20mA accelerometer set at 25mm/sec (HS-420 Series) will provide the correct parameters for monitoring equipment. Typically...

Balancing

Excessive Vibration in rotating machinery can cause unacceptable levels of noise and, more importantly, substantially reduce the life of shaft bearings. When unbalance has been identified and quantified, the correction is straightforward. Weight has to be either added or removed from the rotating element. The ultimate aim being to reduce the uneven mass distribution so that the centrifugal forces and hence the vibrations induced in the supporting structures are at an acceptable level.

Vibration Analysis

Alignment & Vibration Service’s machinery vibration analysis can lead to the specific problem rather than repairing several components of a machine before resolving the vibration problem. We can survey one or all aspects of your critical machinery at any frequency interval. Our vibration survey will help predict machinery problems, and help you schedule repairs for machinery rather than performing time-consuming and costly repairs after a machine has a catastrophic failure. Our goal is to help you replace machinery wear parts at the end of their life. This will help reduce your maintenance budgets without reducing your much needed maintenance staff.

Laser Shaft Alignment

Laser alignment is used in the aligning of rotating machinery to the required tolerance. AVS uses Pruftechnik Laser alignment equipment which has higher resolution than conventional dial indicators and therefore provide a more accurate alignment result.