Vibration Analysis
Level 1
Entry
The ‘Entry', or 'Junior Level’ Mobius Institute™ Category I course is intended for personnel who are new or have 6 months vibration monitoring and analysis experience. The course focuses on periodic, single channel data collection and analysis for condition-based maintenance programmes. A foundation is established for in-depth understanding of spectrum and waveform relationships.
Course Outline
Maintenance practices
Breakdown, preventive, predictive and RCM
Condition monitoring
Review of condition monitoring technologies: Vibration, oil, wear debris analysis, infrared thermography, ultrasonic acoustic emission, electric motor testing
Principles of vibration
- Motion, r.m.s./peak/peak-peak, frequency/ period
- Displacement, velocity and acceleration
- Units and unit conversion
- Waveform and spectrum (FFT)
- Natural frequencies
- Basic forcing frequency calculations
Data acquisition
- Instrumentation
- Transducers and transducer mounting
- Measurement point naming conventions
- Routes/surveys: Loading and unloading the route
- Data collection
- Following a route
- Repeatable data collection
- Test procedures
- Observations: utilising your time effectively in the field
- Recognizing bad data
Equipment knowledge
- • Rotating equipment types and applications
- • Rolling element bearings and journal bearings
- • Review of failure modes and appropriate use of condition monitoring technologies
Basic vibration analysis
- Overall level measurements
- Spectrum analysis: • Harmonics, sidebands and the analysis process
- Alarm limits, trending and exception reports
- Fault diagnosis:
- Imbalance, misalignment, looseness, eccentricity, resonance
- Defects associated with bearings, gears, belts, electric motors
Who should attend
Course Materials
Learning Outcome
Certification (Optional)
Your Instructors
Clyde Volpe
Principal
Vibration Institute of Australia
Pioneer in transforming Condition Monitoring to Reliability Improvement. Driving change with vibration analysis & oil analysis for enhanced industry reliability. Clyde has developed courses for quick learning.
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Asset Management School was absolutely fantastic! Not just the content, but also the networking evening, the whole experience. Despite 23 years as a maintenance engineer and planner, I learnt so much to take back to apply in my business.
Assets Maintenance Planner
Waikato Regional Council
The knowledge and practical steps imparted during Asset Schools have proven to be invaluable for the overall improvement across the business in greater availability and reduced unit lifecycle costs. Attendance at the Asset Schools portfolio of courses is now a foundation requirement for our team of planners due to the business and personal development benefits.
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