All industries face the same challenges:

  Reducing downtime
  Minimizing maintenance costs
  Increasing throughput & productivity
  Enhancing product quality


SixD applies evolving testing technologies and analysis tools to help meet these goals by solving vibration, noise, stress and fatigue-related problems in industrial processing equipment. SixD engineers have experience with

  Steel & aluminum mills
  Pulp & paper processing mills
  Food processing
  Packaging equipment
  Metal-forming equipment
  High-speed conveyors
  Chemical & plastic processing

Some sample projects:

Process Troubleshooting:  Smokehouse conveyor system failure — Custom load sensor pinpoints problem mechanism

Test System Design:  Measuring for obstructions in car-body finishing process line — Automating measurements of interference between body and line fixtures

High-Level Consulting: Fatigue failures in large industrial pressure vessel — Evaluation of heat exchangers guides timely system redesign

Rotating Machinery: Modal and dynamics testing