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Gauging Level and Flat Using Laser Alignment Tools

March 17, 2011

Gauging Level and Flat Using Laser Alignment Tools The terms “level” and “flat” are used interchangeably and, in some cases, assumed to mean the same thing. In fact, they are different, but both can be measured using laser alignment tools. Flat or flatness refers to the topography, curvature or smoothness of a surface or machine. [...]

Checking Your Machine Tools For Wear With a Laser Alignment System

February 9, 2011

Checking Your Machine Tools For Wear With a Laser Alignment System Lathes, milling machines, jig borers, grinding machines, and other machine tools all have moving slides or tables that experience wear. Power failures, programming errors, and failing parts can result in machine tool failures and excessive damage to slides and ways when parts of the [...]

Pinpoint Can Handle Special Laser Measuring Needs – Even In Nuclear Robots!

January 19, 2011

Pinpoint products are designed and manufactured with versatility in mind. The standard Laser Microgage can be used for many different industrial measuring and alignment tasks. Often we hear from companies that have special needs. Laser Measurement in the Nuclear Industry Pinpoint was approached by a large company in the nuclear power industry to develop a [...]

Preventative Maintenance On Your Rollers Can Save Your Day!

January 11, 2011

Preventative Maintenance. You’ve heard that phrase often enough. The Laser Microgage is an ideal way to make quick, precise and quantitative measurements over a large machine with many rollers. With minimal practice, the laser measuring and alignment process becomes very quick, allowing plant personnel to optimize their roll and web systems on a regular basis [...]

Stop The Press! Roll Alignment Gone Awry

January 6, 2011

When an Editor yells, “Stop the Presses”, it’s usually because breaking news needs to get into print before the morning edition. However, if the plant manager yells stop the presses, well this could spell trouble! Most likely a machine is out of alignment causing defective product is to come off the line. Maybe the words [...]

Merry Christmas from Pinpoint Laser Systems!!

December 21, 2010

May the magic of the season warm your heart and stay with you all year! Pinpoint Laser Systems would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!

Here’s a Clever Product – Microshims for Machine Leveling and Aligning!

December 14, 2010

The Microshim is a precision, machinery shim for adjusting height and leveling large and heavy production machinery. The Microshim provides a working range of 0.50 inch with a load-carrying capacity of 10,000 pounds. Microshim Leveling and Aligning Applications The Microshim is ideal for aligning machine tools, leveling surface plates, adjusting long production equipment, supporting heavy [...]

Laser Measurement Tools for Roll Alignment

December 7, 2010

Pinpoint’s Laser Microgage System The development of new laser measurement tools, like the Laser Microgage, is transforming the way production teams and maintenance personnel address machinery misalignment. Pinpoint’s Laser Microgage system is compact, precise, and easy to use, so maintenance personnel can measure and align their own roll equipment whenever the need arises. Using the [...]

Poor Roll Alignment Forcing You To Roll Out Bad Product?

December 2, 2010

Many manufacturing companies depend on production equipment with rollers, idlers, winders, take up rolls, dryer rolls, press rolls and countless other rolling parts. Keeping all of these machinery elements in true alignment to the machine and to each other can be a daunting task. The Importance of Roll Alignment As a sheet of processed material [...]

Why Laser Alignment?

November 23, 2010

For years, engineers, maintenance teams, and production people have wrestled with fishing cord and piano wire drawn between machines for checking straightness and other alignments. PI tapes, tram bars, and other mechanical devices help some, but they tend to sag and twist. Optical scopes have improved accuracies over long machinery runs, but are heavy, bulky, [...]

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