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Learn to Apply Alignment & Measurement Technology for Practical Solutions

Our Alignment Courses

Brunson Instrument Company's training courses are unique to the industry. That's because our application engineers have direct experience with many types of metrology instruments and their application in many different industries, including aircraft and aerospace, printing, rolling mill, power generation, and others. You'll receive first-rate, hands-on training from these very same, experienced application engineers. The knowledge and skills acquired will pay you back many times over by allowing you to make high quality and traceable measurements to evaluate any given project, or through the proper alignment of your equipment and the increased productivity of your machinery.

Our Instructors

Each course leader is a field-experienced AE (applications engineer). This team of engineers has traveled the world providing critical alignment and measurement solutions for major industries

Have Metrology, Will Travel

Our field service engineers are ready and willing to help solve your specific problems – on site at your facility. Not only has our group done work in every corner of the United States, we've sent them to every corner of the globe as well. Places like Germany, Singapore, Sweden, Israel, India, Japan – and lots of others. All in pursuit of helping our customers with their measurement and alignment challenges.

Our experience is yours for the asking

Our field service group has come across just about every challenge at one time or another. For example, they've been involved with fixture assembly and certification, machine tool alignments and machine performance evaluation, first article (and ongoing) inspection, equipment installation, and machinery troubleshooting. They've also helped streamline and automate our customers' metrology procedures, as well as helped them to specify their own metrology systems.

Straighter boards, higher output, longer lasting equipment

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Optical Alignment

Innovators in the lumber industry are adopting the tools and techniques used by the paper, steel and power generation industries for precision alignment of their equipment. It's called Optical Alignment and is favored among professionals who need precise, verifiable results.

The Basics

A precision optical instrument called a jig transit is mounted on a stable platform. The transit's line of sight is aligned with reference targets. This produces an accurate and repeatable reference used to align all machine components. All measurements are made using tried-and-true visual optical techniques that you can see, understand and verify. It's simple and very accurate.

The Precision of Optics to the rescue

 You'll appreciate the easy set-up, simple operation and consistent performance of the Optical Alignment experience. The work moves quickly

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High precision, increased output, longer lasting equipment

Web handling machinery is on the critical path for manufacturing processes such as paper, converting, printing, rolled metals, thin films, coatings and other continuous lines. Faster throughput, higher quality, and more uptime are the mantras heard in these industries every day.

Often, these processes have multiple machine sections with multiple components working together. If you depend on these kinds of roll systems, you know that poorly aligned equipment leaves you vulnerable to a host of issues ranging from damaged or low quality product to excessive maintenance and equipment breakdown. The downtime associated with such interruptions can be enormous.

Many common problems can be traced directly to poor roll alignment, including:

• Vibration
• Premature roll and bearing wear
• Web tracking, wrinkling and tearing
• Uneven coatings
• Substandard registration

The Precision

Benefits Of Understanding Calibration & Adjustment

Is my instrument calibrated? That's the question every end user asks as they make critical path decisions based on their measured data. Our calibration course not only answers this question, but provides technicians with the skills needed to certify those instruments – an important consideration in today's quality minded business environment. Minimize turnaround times and the expenses that go with calibration outsourcing. Qualify the equipment in a certified lab or right on the job site. Troubleshoot instrument questions immediately to determine if project discrepancies are instrument- or hardware-related.

Your knowledge of instrument calibrations will be invaluable to identify measurement system errors, saving time and uncertainty. And, when a calibration error is found, you will know what to do to return the instrument to manufacturer's specifications as quickly as possible.

Learning Objectives

Benefits Of Understanding Field Calibration & Adjustment

Is my instrument calibrated? That's the question every end user asks as they make critical path decisions based on their measured data. Our field calibration course not only answers this question, but provides technicians with the skills needed to correct instrument errors right where it counts the most – on the jobsite.

Whether your cal lab is across the street or across the country, sending an instrument out for calibration during a critical path outage is an expensive, time-consuming proposition. Learn to evaluate instrument calibration immediately to determine if project discrepancies are instrument- or hardware-related.

Besides, it's always good practice to run a few standard instrument checks at the job site to make certain that you're not wasting your time when the real measuring starts. While you can't perform every instrument check in the field that you can do in a calibration lab, there are

Minimize thermal changes with "Invar"

Everyone knows that almost all materials will expand when the temperature rises, and shrink when the temperature falls. Often this is not a problem, but in the measurement world, this effect can cause mischief. Nobody likes to measure things with a ruler that is capable of expanding and contracting. It's the same as the old story about the man with two watches – he never knows what time it really is. So wouldn't it be great to have a measuring device that was the same length regardless of the temperature?

It sure would! We come close to that scenario by using "Invar". Invar is a very special alloy of iron and nickel, with a few other things thrown in, such as silicon and manganese. The benefit of Invar is that it has a very low coefficient of thermal expansion. This of course means that it changes very little when the temperature rises or falls. In fact, the alloy gets its name from the fact that it has a relatively invariant volume under