SKF TKSA Shaft Alignment Tools

Accurate shaft alignment is essential for reducing machinery failures and increasing equipment uptime in production.

Accurate shaft alignment is essential.

Reducing machinery failures and increasing equipment uptime are critical in production. Shaft misalignment is a major contributor to machine-system failures. Accurate shaft alignment can prevent many machinery problems and reduce unplanned downtime and lost production.

In today’s challenging environment of cost reduction and asset optimization, accurate shaft alignment is more important than ever.

What is shaft misalignment?

Machines must be aligned in both horizontal and vertical planes.

Misalignment can be parallel or angular.

The consequences of shaft misalignment can seriously affect profitability and include:

• Increased friction and therefore energy consumption
• Premature bearing and sealing-system failure.
• Premature shaft and coupling failure
• Excessive lubricant leakage through seals
• Coupling and foundation-bolt failures
• Increased vibration and noise

Which methods can be used for shaft alignment?

Fast, accurate and easy to use. Laser alignment systems are generally faster and easier to use than dial indicators, provide higher accuracy and require no special skills to obtain reliable results almost every time.

Which laser alignment system should be considered?

Before purchasing a system, identify where it will be used and list the requirements. Buying an expensive system that covers almost every need can be a costly mistake if technicians require extensive skills to operate it.

Most alignment tasks involve horizontally mounted electric motors connected to a pump or fan by a single coupling. For these tasks, technicians need a fast, easy-to-use system with minimal setup time.

What can SKF provide?

After extensive consultation with users, SKF developed a range of affordable, easy-to-use shaft alignment tools suitable for most alignment tasks.

TKSA 11 shaft alignment tool

TKSA 31 shaft alignment tool

TKSA 41 shaft alignment tool

TKSA 51 shaft alignment tool

TKSA 71 shaft alignment tool