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Maintenance practices |
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Breakdown, preventive, predictive and RCM
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Condition monitoring |
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Review of condition monitoring technologies: Vibration, oil, wear
particle, infrared, acoustic emission, electric motor testing.
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Principles of vibration |
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Motion, r.m.s./peak/peak-peak, frequency/period |
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Displacement, velocity and acceleration |
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Units and unit conversion |
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Waveform and spectrum (FFT) |
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Natural frequencies and generated frequencies |
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Basic forcing frequency calculations
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Data acquisition |
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Instrumentation |
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Transducers and transducer mounting |
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Measurement point naming conventions |
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Routes/surveys: Loading and unloading the route |
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Data collection |
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- Following a route
- Repeatable data collection
- Test procedures
- Observations: best utilizing your time in the field
- Recognizing bad data
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Equipment knowledge |
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Rotating equipment types and applications |
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Rolling element bearings and journal bearings |
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Review of failure modes and appropriate use of condition monitoring
technologies
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Basic vibration analysis |
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Overall level measurements |
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Spectrum analysis |
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- Harmonic, sidebands and the analysis process
- Alarm limits, trending and exception reports
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Introduction to fault diagnosis: |
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- Imbalance, misalignment, looseness, eccentricity, resonance
- Defects associated with bearings, gears, belts, electric motors
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Case studies will be presented to illustrate the analysis and fault diagnosis
process. Attendees will perform analysis.
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Review of ISO standards |
