BalancePoint ™ 6.0 turns your turbine blade sequence balancing process into a smooth flowing operation by eliminating errors and achieving the finest balance results possible. Produced by Turbine Metrology, BalancePoint represents the best solutions developed over years of serving major turbine manufacturers and rebuilders.
At its heart BalancePoint takes a set of turbine blades or other objects and calculates the best position for each blade around the circle to achieve the lowest imbalance. Using Dimensional Tunneling ™ technology, your application is guaranteed to achieve the finest balance available.
BalancePoint eliminates errors: BalancePoint reads weights directly from your pan scale or moment-weight machine through a user configurable interface. It tracks serial number, part number, and a note along with each blade. Hand entry is eliminated and blades no longer get mixed up.
BalancePoint produces outstanding low imbalance results: In order to find the best arrangements of blades to minimize the balance, BalancePoint employs Turbine Metrology's Dimensional Tunneling technology. For example, a set of 120 blades with the fastest computer would take millions of years to calculate every possible combination. But, Dimensional Tunneling cuts through to an impossibly precise balance in just seconds. The incredibly low imbalance produced is key to building a well balanced turbine assembly. Gone are the days of sorting blades by weight, installing them in a pattern, and hoping for good results.
BalancePoint compensates for wheel/disc imbalance: Balancing the blades to compensate for disc imbalance is the way to go, and BalancePoint employs its Dimensional Tunneling technology perfectly to provide a complete balance for the assembly. No more adding or removing weight from the disc to get within tolerances.
BalancePoint handles any combination of special blades and locking blades: BalancePoint can handle any number of special blade types in nearly any configuration. For example you may have 4 locking blades and every other blade may need to be a special cutter blade. BalancePoint can keep the locking blades in place while simultaneously balancing up the alternating normal blades and cutter blades. They aren't just balanced separately and added together. The Dimensional Tunneling technology balances them all as a single precise group while allowing blades to land only in valid locations.
Complete reporting: BalancePoint generates three reports. A polar plot lets displays weight distribution around the circle. A report ordered by slot number lets you insert blades in sequence around the disc. A report ordered by blade number lets you pick blades in order and put them in the appropriate slots. In all reports, complete statistics are displayed.
Can BalancePoint assemble multiple stages and blades at once in order to compensate for the complete drum imbalance? See BalancePoint 3D.
More About BalancePoint
For ultra precision balancing applications, Balance Point software balances a set of blades, segments, bolts, or other objects that will be installed on circular rotating machines. Produced by Turbine Metrology, a solutions provider to many of the foremost jet engine and gas turbine manufacturers, BalancePoint incorporates leading-edge balancing technology.
In gas turbine and jet engine applications with non-integral compressor blades and turbine buckets, the weight tolerance for the individual blades / buckets can significantly effect the balance of the assembled rotor. Even if the weight differential is small, if, by random assembly, more of the heavier blades are placed on one side of the rotor, the resulting unbalance condition may be more than can be corrected by additional balance weights or corrective machining processes. This means time-consuming and expensive disassembly of the rotor.
BalancePoint is currently used by leading turbine manufacturers and rebuilders. It is a one button weighing and balancing system that quickly weighs and determines the optimum rotor location for every blade in the blade set.
 
BalancePoint can be furnished as a turnkey system or as software only. It can work with a number of types of electronic scales and moment weight checkers to utilize your existing measurement equipment.
Specifications
- Designed for unlimited blades or buckets.
- Allows any combination of locking blades and special blade types that land only in special slots
- One button weighing, auto-weighing when part settles on scale, or manual entry.
- Manual entry editing.
- Serial number entry.
- Part number entry.
- Note for each blade.
- Initial Disc imbalance entry.
- Pairs mode that matches pairs and them keeps them together during optimization.
- Data saved to hard disk for future reference.
- Dimensional Tunneling ™ balancing determines balance orientation quickly (within a few seconds) with typical assembled out-of-balance <.05 gms.
- Works with a variety of scales; Weightronix 3600, GSE, Acculab standard. User configurable interface for other scales.
- Works with Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista, 256 MB RAM, 10 MB HD, 1024x768 monitor resolution.
- RS-232 or USB input; no DAS required.
- Time and date stamp on Results printout.
- Results may be printed in order of blade number or slot number.
Call Effective Objects at 425-427-2705 for fast assistance and to get a price quote.
For occasional use see our E-Balancing service.Manufacturer: Turbine Metrology
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