Machinery Failure, Vibration & Predictive Maintenance

What are the Goals?

At the end of this training course participants will have:

• An understanding of Machine Failure Analysis techniques
• An understanding of a range of Predictive Maintenance Technologies
• Knowledge of the potential contribution of each these technologies to maintenance efficiency
• Guidelines indicating how these technologies can interact with and support each other
• Hints and Tips for practical application of these technologies so as to achieve the best results
  
  A practical approach to developing an action plan to utilise these technologies in their own areas of responsibility, fitting them into the overall maintenance strategy, and measuring benefits.

Who is this Training Course for?

• Supervisors
• Team Leader
• Professionals in Maintenance, Engineering and Production

This training course will also benefit anyone who wishes to update themselves on Predictive Maintenance Technologies and Failure Analysis techniques, as well as those who have to judge the suitability of these technologies for their needs and learn how to implement them for the benefit of their organisations.

Daily Agenda

Day One: Understanding Failures

• Machine Failure Analysis
• Wear and Tribology
• Fatigue Mechanisms
• Plain, tilt-pad and anti-friction bearing and seal failures

Day Two: Reliability Fundamentals and Methods for Avoiding Failures

• Fundamentals of Reliability of Machinery 
• Reliability Determination and Assessment Methods 
• Statistical Analysis of Machinery Failures
• Workshop and Case Study

Day Three: Understanding Predictive Maintenance

• Predictive Maintenance Concepts
• Introduction
• Maintenance Strategies
• Predictive Maintenance – background and history
• Predictive Maintenance Technologies – an overview
• Potential Failure Analysis – deciding which technologies to apply
• Vibration Analysis
• Introduction to Vibration Analysis
• Frequency Analysis and the Fast Fourier Transform
• Vibration Transducers
• Basic Failure Mechanisms with examples

Day Four: Using Predictive Maintenance

• Vibration Standards and Alarm Levels
• Vibration Diagnostics
• Amplitude Demodulation – a.k.a Enveloping, SSE, HFD, Peak-Vue
• Vibration on Rolling Element Bearings
• Resonance – identification & cure
• Other Predictive Maintenance Techniques
• Infrared Thermography
• Thermographic Applications
• Passive Ultrasonics - contact and non-contact
• Ultrasonic Applications
• Tribology – oil analysis

Day Five: Control Mechanisms

• Managing Predictive Maintenance
• Performance and Efficiency Monitoring
• Managing the Predictive Maintenance effort
• Cost Analysis
• Reporting Techniques
• Integrating Predictive Maintenance into the Maintenance Plan