Troubleshooting Plant Rotating Equipment and Effective Predictive Maintenance

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
02 Nov 2025 Istanbul, Turkey $ 4,500 Register

Troubleshooting Plant Rotating Equipment and Effective Predictive Maintenance

Introduction

Machines deteriorate as they get older so we can expect a certain amount of performance falloff and general deterioration of the machine.  If we understand the failure mechanisms that are in place we can identify which parameters best indicate the deterioration of the machine. 

Failure analysis, Troubleshooting and Predictive & Planned Maintenance techniques, including vibration analysis, are discussed in the course with a view to optimizing the maintenance engineering effort while maximizing production.

Objectives

    At the end of this course participants will have:

    • An understanding of Machine Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting techniques
    • An understanding of a range of Planned & 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 utilize these technologies in their own areas of responsibility, fitting them into the overall maintenance strategy, and measuring benefits
    • Allow the delegate to carry out analysis of machine failures
    • Enable the delegate to develop a proactive maintenance regime within the organization.
    • Give the delegate confidence to carry out failure analyses thereby avoiding repetitive failures.
    • Allow tighter control of maintenance budgets by the avoidance of unplanned equipment failures in service.

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations.

Who Should Attend?

This course is directed towards Supervisors, Team Leaders and Managers in Maintenance, Engineering, and Production.  The 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 learns how to implement them for the benefit of their organizations.

Course Outline

Day 1: Understanding Failures

Machine Failure Analysis

  • Wear and tribology
  • Fatigue mechanisms
  • Plain, tilt-pad and anti-friction bearing and seal failures

Day 2: Avoiding Failures

 Analysis and identification of failures

  • FMEA and FMECA to identify failure modes and criticality analysis
  • Troubleshooting techniques
  • Statistical analysis of failures
  • Reliability, availability and maintainability

Day 3: Understanding Planned Maintenance

Planned Maintenance Concepts

  • Introduction
  • Maintenance Strategies
  • Planned Maintenance – background and history
  • Planned Maintenance Technologies – an overview
  • CMMS – an overview

Potential Failure Analysis  

  • Deciding which technologies to apply to avoid failures

Day 4: Using Predictive Maintenance

Vibration Analysis

  • Introduction to Vibration Analysis
  • Frequency Analysis and the Fast Fourier Transform
  • Vibration Transducers
  • Basic Failure Mechanisms with examples
  • Vibration Standards and Alarm Levels
  • Vibration Diagnostics
  • Amplitude Demodulation – aka 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 5: Control Mechanisms

Managing Planned Maintenance

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

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