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Retrofit Machines from the 1970s Successfully Digitized 

Source: Press release | Translated by AI 5 min Reading Time

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Siemens Energy

How can modern quality and process requirements be implemented in an existing machinery park with investment security? A special example from Siemens Energy Erfurt shows how a modular design and intelligent digitization can make even 50-year-old machines future-proof.

The Siemens Energy employees attach balancing weights at the precisely calculated and adjusted angular position to achieve the best possible result.(Source: Schenck Rotec)
The Siemens Energy employees attach balancing weights at the precisely calculated and adjusted angular position to achieve the best possible result.
(Source: Schenck Rotec)

For low-speed pre-balancing of generator components, Siemens Energy uses a machine from Schenck Rotec, an H6 from 1972. The then-new CAB690 measuring system was installed in 1993. The fully enclosed machine is used primarily for balancing exciter rotors as well as fans on exciters and slip rings. It features a cardan shaft drive with a 45 kW  (approx. 60 hp) electric motor and rotates up to approximately 2,000 rpm.

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