We will have all our shaft alignment, pulley alignment and vibration analysis and balancing maintenance-related products on display at the following trade shows: MARTS 2012 Maintenance and Reliability Technology Summit designed for plant and facility managers, maintenance leaders and crew members, reliability engineers, industrial technicians and all other capacity-assurance professionals. Booth# 10 March 13-14, 2012 Rosemont, [...]

LUDECA invites you to MARTS 2012, an annual Maintenance and Reliability Technology Summit,  as we present on the importance of precision machinery alignment and field balancing . We will also be ready to showcase our shaft alignment, pulley alignment, vibration analysis and balancing products as well as to answer any questions you may have. Visit our Booth# 10 [...]

 MAKE YOUR CHRISTMAS WISH LIST COME TRUE… Count on us to help make your Christmas wishes a reality and achieve your maintenance and reliability goals. As we celebrate this Holiday Season, we appreciate your business and would like to thank you for your valued friendship and wish you all the very best for 2012. We [...]

“Does misalignment waste energy?” is a question often asked. The answer, emphatically, is yes! General Motors Corporation and Ludeca Inc. performed and published a study on this issue in 1993 which showed conclusively that energy savings (Real Power savings) of 2.3 percent could be obtained on loaded machines. On unloaded machines, the savings ranged as [...]

PLANT ENGINEERING • November 2011 Friction can cause damage, but it also can be an energy hog. Keeping your rotating shafts in alignment is a fundamental—and often overlooked—maintenance project. Alan Luedeking, the manager of technical support for LUDECA Inc., Doral, FL, talked with Plant Engineering (PE) about some of the critical issues in shaft alignment, and how [...]

One hour long presentation by Alan Luedeking , training instructor and field service engineer for alignment of rotating machinery at LUDECA. Originally filmed at the CBM 2011 Condition Based Monitoring Conference at the Reliability Performance Institute in Fort Myers, Florida. This presentation is an in-depth treatment of the subject of soft foot, or machine frame distortion, in directly [...]