FOOD & BEVERAGE MANUFACTURING
Food Processor Reduces Downtime, Increases Facility Efficiency
Challenge:
A food processing plant has been using a dial indicator to assist in shaft alignment on a 100 HP motor on a critical asset within their facility. The pain with using a dial indicator was twofold:
1) It took 8 hours to compete 1 job
2) During that time production on that line was stopped due to having to shut the line down.
With a dial indicator it was taking their maintenance crew 8 hours to complete the job, during which the customer had to shut the line down.
Each hour loss of productivity on this line cost the customer on average $3,000.
Solution:
By utilizing the Fluke 830 laser shaft alignment tool, the customer was able to reduce the time it took their maintenance crew to complete the task down from 8 hours to 3 hours. By reducing their downtime by 5 hours, at $3,000 per hour, we were able to save the customer $15,000 per alignment job. On average, over a years time, they would complete 10 alignment jobs within the facility.
Documented Cost Savings:
With the customer utilizing the Fluke 830 Laser Shaft Alignment tool, LineDrive showed them an annual cost savings of $150,000, saving them over $15,000 per alignment job in their facility.