Xdot is excited to welcome our newest employee, Oliver Sillavan. Oliver joins our team as a test engineer, bringing his background in designing and programming industrial controls systems. Keep an eye out for him around town running on local trails or farther afield maintaining the Appalachian Trail!
Xdot offers a variety of practical rotordynamics short courses and training tailored to meet your team’s individual needs.
We have scheduled a fall session of our Rotordynamics Short Course: Practical Rotordynamics for Real Machinery, the most popular training option, for October 17-20, 2022.
This edition of the short course will be offered both in person in Sarasota, FL as well as virtually. For those attending in person, room reservations are available at the Courtyard Sarasota University Park / Lakewood Ranch Area.
The course this fall is being organized by Mark Corbo of No Bull Engineering. Registration is available online. Offered annually for 10+ years, this four-day course routinely receives highly favorable reviews from attendees. We will cover all aspects of rotordynamics, with a focus process and industrial machinery.
Three instructors will be participating to share their expertise:
Cost: $2850 +$95 fee if using a credit card
Read more about training goals and topics for this course.
Nick Jones joins us as an Engineering Technician. Prior to joining Xdot Bearing Technologies, Nick was part of a team developing emergent production processes in the aerospace industry. He is also a 20-year student of glass blowing and in his spare time he enjoys building and operating high temperature glass forming equipment, which occasionally results in functional glass art.
We’re excited to add Wayne Farrell as a new team member at Xdot, helping out as a mechanical technician. Before arriving at Xdot, Wayne was an aircraft mechanic for a year, and spent four years as a technician supporting the Mu2e project in the High Energy Physics lab at UVA. After work, Wayne enjoys wrenching on cars and entertaining his two cats.
The team at Xdot has been incredibly busy over the past 12 months. We have been excited to partner with our customers on a variety of new applications, including these cutting-edge oil free bearings that will be deployed in a mass market green energy application.
Xdot offers a variety of practical rotordynamics short courses and training tailored to meet your team’s individual needs.
We have scheduled a spring session of our Rotordynamics Short Course, the most popular training option, for April 11-14, 2022.
This edition of the short course will be offered virtually, and is being organized by Mark Corbo of No Bull Engineering. Registration is available online. Offered annually for 10+ years, this four-day course routinely receives highly favorable reviews from attendees. We will cover all aspects of rotordynamics, with a focus process and industrial machinery.
Three instructors will be participating to share their expertise:
Cost: $2750 +$95 fee if using a credit card
Read more about training goals and topics for this course.
We are still growing and are excited to welcome Derek Wilson as our newest employee! Derek brings a couple years of experience in manufacturing engineering for a government defense contractor as well as experience in product design for an Ecommerce company. Outside of work, Derek enjoys hiking, eating, and anything car related.
The fall rotordynamics short is now scheduled for October 25-28, 2021. This edition of the short course will be offered virtually, and is being organized by Mark Corbo of No Bull Engineering. Registration is available online. Offered annually for 10+ years, this four-day course routinely receives highly favorable reviews from attendees. We will cover all aspects of rotordynamics, with a focus process and industrial machinery.
Three instructors will be participating to share their expertise:
We are growing and excited to welcome two new employees.
Andrew Puterbaugh has joined us as Engineering Manager, bringing over ten years of experience in the aircraft propulsion and services industry.
Jeff Hall begins his Xdot career as a Mechanical Technician with 15+ years experience. We’re thrilled to have his help with mechanical assembly and refurbishment as well as troubleshooting conveyer systems and automated packaging equipment.
Two of our most recent projects have expanded our bearing size range. We have been working on scaling, optimizing, building, and testing very small to very large foil bearings – in fact, the smallest and largest we’ve ever built!
Very small: Our new bearings are for a small, 300,000+ rpm machine. The radial bearings are only 7 mm in diameter; the thrust bearing is smaller than a dime. We have taken full advantage of wing foil bearing unique features in scaling to this tiny size. For example, not needing to weld these very small parts makes for a much more practical and robust bearing.
Very large: This application requires radial bearings of just over 125 mm bore, and a thrust bearing around 170 mm OD. These large bearings will enable a unique, process gas lubricated machine configuration under development by the customer.
