Home › Knowledge Base › Centrifuge Balancing Technical Guide Centrifuge Balancing: On-Site Procedure for Industrial Centrifuges A field technician’s reference for two-plane dynamic balancing of decanters, disc-stacks, basket, and tubular centrifuges — without removing the rotor from the machine. By Nikolai Shelkovenko Jan 15, 2025 Updated Jun 2025 14 min Read more
Fan Balancing – Eliminate Vibration & Extend Equipment Life Imagine a high-speed industrial fan shaking violently, with bolts loosening at each rotation. This nightmare scenario is often caused by a slight imbalance in the fan’s rotor. Excessive vibrations and noise are more than just nuisances — they are warning signs Read more
Field Guide — Forestry & Agricultural Mulchers Mulcher Rotor Balancing: Stop the Vibration at Its Source Your mulcher chews through trees and brush all day — and chews through bearings just as fast. The housing is cracked, the PTO shaft shudders, and the operator’s hands go numb by lunch. The Read more
How to Balance an Industrial Centrifuge: Step-by-Step Guide and Common Mistakes to Avoid Have you ever seen a centrifuge shake like it’s about to launch into orbit? In industrial settings, an unbalanced centrifuge can cause intense vibration, leading to costly downtime, safety hazards, and product losses. We recently witnessed this Read more
How to Balance Combine Harvester Rotors: Diagnosis, Methods & Real Savings 1. Introduction When a combine’s threshing drum starts shaking the whole machine in the middle of harvest, the cause is almost always the same: an unbalanced rotor. Rotors of agricultural machinery (threshing drums of combines, straw choppers, rotary mowers, Read more
Rotor balancing: static and dynamic unbalance, resonance, and practical procedure This guide explains rotor balancing for rigid rotors: what “unbalance” means, how static and dynamic unbalance differ, why resonance and non-linearity can prevent a quality result, and how balancing is typically performed in one or two correction planes. Devices Portable Read more
Balancing the Crusher at the Nestlé Plant Elevated Vibration Levels in Nestle Pet Food Plant In June of last year, a contractor responsible for maintenance at a Nestle plant specializing in pet food production encountered an issue with one of the crushers. Post-maintenance, the machine displayed increased vibration levels, reaching Read more
Portable vibrometer balancer ArBalance During the balancing of the Fecon forestry mulcher with the FAE attachment, our specialist recorded short videos showing the rotor balancing process. ArBalance and the Balanset-1A: A Shared Platform In this demonstration, a portable vibration analyzer ArBalance was used. The procedure follows the same principle as Read more
Modernization of an old balancing machine with hard-bearing supports Earlier in the article, I described the modernization of an old balancing machine with soft-bearing supports. For such machines, we install the Balanset-1A balancing device in the case of machines with two supports, and the Balanset-4 in the case of machines Read more
Balancing Stand with Soft Support The image shows a simple balancing stand being used to balance gears. The main feature of softbearing support balancing stands is that they have relatively compliant supports based on spring suspensions, spring-mounted carriages, flat or cylindrical spring supports, and so on. The natural frequency of Read more
