Company Experience

Technical Consultants, Inc. provides vibration monitoring and vibration consulting services to industry. Our employees have over 30 years of industrial vibration experience in the chemical, steel, general manufacturing, and food industries, to name a few.

Periodic monitoring of vibration on critical equipment is the single most important element of a good Predictive Maintenance program. Our goal is to solve equipment problems in a way that makes sense for the business. Experience has shown that the business (profit) impact must be assessed along with the scientific data to make good business decisions about repair.

Our repair recommendations differentiate us from our competitors. They are practical, and are very specific.

In today's streamlined companies, in-house vibration programs may be too expensive to maintain. We can make the technology available to your business at a fraction of the cost.

Maintenance Self-Assessment

What is the current state of the maintenance part of your business? Are you:

• Operating in a "breakdown" mode?
• Reacting when equipment breaks?
• Getting reduced equipment life?
• Unaware of pending damage until it occurs?
• Unable to assess problems, unless you disassemble the machine?
• Finding equipment damage so severe that analyzing the Root Cause is difficult?
• Doing much more emergency and off-hours maintenance than you'd like?
• Unable to devote the resources to turn the situation around?

If you answered yes to one or more of the above, would you like to change your maintenance program to:

• Operate in a Predictive mode?
• Detect failures while they are still minor?
• Be able to choose to either repair minor faults immediately, or to monitor condition while continuing to operate?
• Find and eliminate the Root Cause of equipment failures?
• Extend equipment life to 5 years or more?
• Schedule your maintenance at your convenience?

If you would like to change to the predictive mode, Technical Consultants, Inc. can bring years of industrial experience to help your business get there.

Biographical Information

Glenn M. Maclin

• BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering. Tennessee Tech, Cookeville, TN
• 2 years in DuPont's Engineering Services Division, troubleshooting equipment in Texas and Louisiana.
• 14 years at DuPont Memphis Plant as Rotating Equipment Engineer
• Independent industrial vibration consultant since 1996, serving customers in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
• Experience since 1986 on CSI equipment and software
• Graduate of numerous vibration courses: IRD, Buscarello, Jim Berry, CSI, etc.
• Member of Vibration Institute - Certified Level III analyst.
• Expert witness in Vibration
• Instructor for maintenance personnel in the following fields:
  • Dial indicator alignment
  • Laser alignment
  • Belt drive maintenance
  • General rotating equipment (bearings, gears, couplings, etc.)