SPM Academy – ISO II – Category II – Intermediate Vibration Analysis Course
The key course for practicing vibration analysts
Duration: 5 days, Having successfully completed the course you will be eligible to take the certification exam [optional]
Certification requirement: Passing the certification exam, 18 months experience
Language: English (presentations, literature, and examination)
Summary of topics
- Fundamentals: Quick review [just in case you have forgotten anything]
- Signals: Learn where sidebands, harmonics, and beating come from
- Data processing: The FFT, averaging, windowing, resolution, Fmax.
- Data collection: Transducer types, mounting methods, mounting locations, recognising and avoiding measurement errors.
- Spectrum analysis: Forcing frequencies, the analysis process, harmonics and sidebands, setting alarm limits.
- Advanced analysis: Time waveform, phase and envelope analysis.
- Diagnosing faults: Unbalance, misalignment, bearing faults, looseness, resonance, and many other fault conditions.
- Testing methods: Introduction to bump tests, Bode plots, and ODS.
- Correction: Balancing and alignment.