VIBRATION ANALYSIS CAT III (ISO 18436-2) CERTIFICATION

Would you like to become a vibration analysis expert for your site? Are you encountering more complex problems with your machines that you don’t yet understand? ISO Category III is the ideal way to hone your skills as a vibration analyst and be better prepared to identify and solve some of the most complex problems that can arise in factories today.

This four-and-a-half-day seminar builds on ISO CATEGORY II and focuses primarily on improving analysts’ expertise in vibration.

The program enables analysts to significantly improve the effectiveness of their machine condition monitoring programs.

Techniques are provided for detecting each of the 40 machine problems presented in our illustrated vibration diagnosis chart, along with numerous real-world cases demonstrating how these problems were detected and corrected.

Diagnosis of more complex problems and failure scenarios is taught for gears, rotor rubbing, plain bearings, electrical problems, hydraulics/aerodynamics, flutter vibration, resonance, and rolling element bearing tracking.

The refinement of global and spectral alarms using proven statistical techniques and concrete examples is explained.

Introductory information is provided on how to: (1) specify meaningful narrowband envelope alarms, (2) perform natural frequency testing, (3) analyze time waveforms, (4) use synchronous time averaging, (5) interpret amplitude-demodulated spectra and waveforms, and (6) specify appropriate vibration isolation and damping treatments.

The course concludes with an exam which, once passed, certifies the participant as an ISO Category III vibration analyst.

This course is designed for the senior vibration analyst and program manager who must be able to diagnose the widest range of vibration related fault conditions.

• Deepen your understanding of advanced vibration analysis techniques for condition monitoring
• Strengthen diagnostic skills to detect and interpret complex machinery faults
• Be able to identify over 40 types of machine faults using the Illustrated Vibration Diagnostics Chart
• Learn to diagnose defects
• Understand and apply advanced alarm strategies tailored to specific machine conditions
• Master advanced signal processing techniques
• Improve the effectiveness and reliability of your predictive maintenance program through enhanced analytical skills
• Prepare for and achieve ISO Category III Vibration Analyst certification through successful exam completion

• Brief review of ISO CATEGORY II seminar topics
• Proper use of vibration severity charts
• How to refine overall alarm and spectral band alarm levels after several surveys have been taken
• Phase analysis techniques
• Detailed vibration signature analysis for 40 machine problems using Technical Associates’ 5-page illustrated Vibration diagnostics chart
• Mass unbalance
  • Eccentric rotors
  • Bent shaft
  • Misalignment and coupling problems
  • Machinery failures due to resonant vibration
  • Mechanical looseness – 3 distinctly different types
  • Rotor rub
  • Sleeve bearing problems
  • Rolling element bearing problems
  • Flow-induced vibration (cavitation, starvation, etc.)
  • Gear problems
  • Electrical problems in motors
  • Belt-drive problems
  • Beat vibration problems
  • Soft foot and distorted frame problems
• Presentation of a proven analysis procedure using the 5-page illustrated vibration diagnostic chart
• What is “High frequency enveloping and demodulation spectral analysis”?
• How to select the optimum condition monitoring hardware and software using proven weighted matrix methods
• Presentation of real-world case histories

Specific 6-12 months vibration experience is a minimum recommendation, but in order to obtain certification as a Vibration Analyst ISO Category III, the participant shall, in accordance with the ISO 18436 standard, possess a minimum of 36 months of practical experience in the application of vibration analysis techniques. If the participant does not possess this experience at the time of the examination, a temporary certificate will be issued, with full certification being provided upon completion of the professional experience requirements.

4.5 days, with examination provided on the afternoon of day 5