INNOVATIVE MINING SOLUTION

IPI AUSTRALIA’S SHAFT ALIGNMENT SYSTEM IS A SIMPLE BUT UNIQUE SOLUTION TO THE COMMON CHALLENGES AROUND CONVEYOR PULLEY TRANSPORT, INSTALLATION AND ALIGNMENT.

It's no secret that innovation is key to unlocking new opportunities and maintaining a competitive edge in the mining industry.

Understanding this, IPI Australia - a fixed plant performance improvement specialist - has created a shaft alignment system (SAS) to address common conveyor challenges.

Existing shaft alignment practices require surveyors to repurpose standard survey equipment to approximate pulley alignment based on the construction of a virtual pulley shell, as it sits spatially to the centreline of the conveyor it's mounted to.

However, confirmation of the alignment is almost never performed because it's too time-consuming.

This is where IPI's SAS can help.

Intended to be a permanent fixture to pulley bearing housings, IPI's SAS safeguards correct factory seal alignment, prevents seal displacement during transport and handling, allows for pulley alignment directly off the shaft axis, and eliminates the need for seal adjustment when a pulley is landed on a conveyor structure.

It doesn't need belt pockets to be pulled to function, reducing pulley installation timeframes and complexity and eliminating bearing contamination risks associated with in-situ shaft and seal alignments.