In today’s highly competitive marketplace, it is more important than ever that the production plant operates in a safe and reliable way. Unscheduled outages caused by plant breakdown can be very costly and engineers must use every possible means at their disposal to maximize plant reliability and performance.
Predictive maintenance, which incorporates condition-based maintenance, is a vitally important technical approach to the maintenance of rotating and reciprocating machines. Sadly, however, many organizations never manage to achieve high performance in this field because they are not able to deal with the complexities associated with the most powerful and important condition-based maintenance technique, which is vibration monitoring.
Understand the measurement and characteristics of vibration signals, and the ways in which vibration data can be stored and represented
Comprehensive Understand knowledge of vibration-based fault detection and diagnostic techniques, and the practical implementation of these techniques
Make detailed and reliable diagnoses for a range of common machinery and component types
Understand the principles and practice of the balancing of routine rotating machines
Understand how to use vibration-based methods to achieve high-quality balance on routine rotating machinery. Note that the balancing of flexible rotor machines such as steam/gas turbines and axial compressors is a highly specialist activity and is NOT included within the scope of this course
Understand why vibration monitoring systems and approaches often lead to disappointing results and how these pitfalls can be avoided
Operation and Maintenance Operators
Supervisors & Technicians
Facility Engineers
Utility Engineers
Anyone requiring a working level knowledge of rotating equipment & compressors
Technical Professionals dealing with condition monitoring, reliability, and integrity analysis
Components of a vibration signal
Vibration transducers
Overall and spectral vibration
Monitoring point location
Transducer mounting
Common symptoms
Time and frequency domains
Frequency domain instrumentation
Fast Fourier transforms
Displacement and proximity probes
Transducer selection, calibration, care, and maintenance
Imbalance issues
Looseness issues
Signal distortion
Harmonic content
Inter-harmonics
Misalignment
The distinction between angular and lateral effects
Vibration level classification
ISO standards
Peak and RMS levels
Dynamic range
Use of FFT analyzers
Constant percentage bandwidth spectra
Automated CPB spectrum comparison
Spectral zoom
Case studies
Rigid rotor and flexible rotor machines
Static and dynamic balancing of rigid rotors
Balance quality
Residual imbalance
Types of imbalance
In situ balancing
The use of balancing machines
Measurement set-ups
Rules on thumb for trial mass location
Single plane balancing
Two-plane balance procedures
Why you have to be a specialist to balance flexible rotor machines
Case studies
Bearing problems calculation of bearing frequencies
Pulse trains and line spectra
Loaded element modulation
Trending fault development and predicting remaining useful life (RUF)
Gear problems
Gear wear
Toothmesh harmonics
Ghost components
Gear fatigue
Modulation effects
Bent shafts and gear misalignment
Case studies
Time-domain averaging
Crest factor
Sampling, digitising and aliasing
Frequency and phase response
Band selectable analysis (BSA)
RMS and linear averaging
Real-time bandwidth and dynamic range
Case studies
What vibration monitoring CANNOT do
Overall review of concepts learned and how they can be applied in practice
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