Rotating machinery, electrical equipment and practically every other type of plant asset gives an indication when failure is initiated — for example, when the smallest crack begins to form in a bearing. Detected early, those signs give weeks, months or even years of warning before failure, which is enough time to plan corrective maintenance rather than react to a breakdown.
This course is built for attendees with little or no prior experience of mechanical vibration, or coming from a different engineering background. It teaches the fundamentals of vibration together with the general practices used for industrial vibration measurement, all at your own pace over 120 days of access.
The curriculum moves from vibration fundamentals and the time waveform through transducer selection, mounting and routine data collection, into signal processing — sampling, aliasing, windowing, dynamic range and averaging. It closes with vibration analysis and the diagnosis of common machine faults including unbalance, misalignment, looseness, resonance, rolling-element bearing defects, electric-motor faults and gearbox faults. On completion you receive a course completion certificate.