I work for a food and beverage box company. I am looking to make my multi-fold speedking gluers to run like a smooth balanced, timed, race car.I need to know where to start in PMing this type of machinery and whats out there to improving run speeds and where to buy what i need?

The first question I have is: what has Speedking offered to modify your existing equipment for higher output?

The second question is: aside from the run speed, what about these machines is not like a smoothly balanced race car? Are there components that have been repaired locally or internally, which might not be built to OEM specs?

Hopefully there is a path forward where you can improve the balancing of rotating components, verify the strength of compoments that will see more stress under higher run speed, etc.

multi-fold international speedking gluers have been out of business for many years. but our engineering department modified the machine back in the 90's. these machine where made back in the early 60's. but i am trying to find a program or schedule to start a PM program on, since we do not have one at this time. Thank You for Your Comments!

This is a pretty broad question as you probably already know.
I would start by identifying any problem actors that require more than normal maintinance or are shutting the machine down more than expected. Develope routes to check these machines on a bi-weekly basis. This time period can be adjusted as needed once reliabilty improves.
There is a lot good vibration technology out there that will help find things like miaalignments, inbalance, bearing defects, belt defects etc. Most of this technology costs quite a bit of money and requires training.
Starting up a program of your own will take time. You may be able to hire an experienced analyst to come in get a program started and train some of the existing employee(s) to help him and eventualy take over the program.
To start out with, you might see if you can find a consultant or outside analysis company to come in and take a look aorund to see if they can help find anything. That would be the fastest and cheapest thing to do first, in my opinion. Depending on the size of the operation, this may be the best way to go as far as a long term solution also.
I would suggest if this might be an option for you, then go to the regular vibration forum on this site and put the question out there if there might be someone in your area that may be able to come in and give you some ideas. Just some broad range ideas, hope they help you out. Ron

Box Maker

I would start by looking at your equipment bases and foundations closely. Then I would compare the differance between you worst running gluer campared to your best running machine.

Mark
alertanalytical.com