Machinery Fault Diagnosis and Condition Monitoring

Maintenance, mechanical and reliability engineers, and condition monitoring technicians who already collect data on a route and want to stop handing the interpretation to somebody else. It assumes you have seen a spectrum before.

No. Every module can be studied on a phone or a laptop, and the practice tasks are done with a nameplate, a bearing data sheet and a pen. If your employer has a data collector, run the practice tasks on a real machine and the course is worth several times more.

Running speed, mm/s, and what a spectrum is. If those are new, do a basic vibration or maintenance course first. This one starts at the analyser setup and goes through to bearing damage and reporting.

No. Category certification under ISO 18436-2 is issued by training and examination bodies that run their own courses and their own exams, and EDWartens is not one of them and is not affiliated with any of them. Treat this course as preparation and background reading. What EDWartens issues is its own Certificate of Completion, and it is described as nothing more than that.

No. The video lessons in this course are vibration based. Oil and wear debris analysis, thermography, ultrasound and motor current signature analysis are named in the notes as the other legs of a condition monitoring programme, but they are not taught here.

Yes. Every module, every practice task and every assessment. You create an account so that your progress is saved and the assessments can be marked. The certificate is the only paid item, and only if you want one.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you have finished every module and passed the final at 60 per cent, with a verification code anyone can check. It is not a vendor credential and is never described as one.

Mobius Institute, on their own YouTube channel, and they are credited at the foot of this page. EDWartens did not make the videos, does not host or sell them, and is not affiliated with Mobius Institute. What EDWartens wrote is the study plan, the notes, the practice tasks and the assessments.

The Machinery Fault Diagnosis and Condition Monitoring course has 10 modules. It opens with "How vibration analysis finds a fault", goes through "Setting up the FFT analyser: filters, Fmax and resolution", "What the spectrum hides: waveform, orbit and shaft centreline", "Rolling element bearing faults" and "Phase, resonance, trending and the condition report" and ends with "Final assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the Machinery Fault Diagnosis and Condition Monitoring course: Choose Fmax, lines of resolution and averaging for the fault you are hunting, and show the arithmetic; Spot a peak that is an artefact of the analyser settings rather than a real machine force; Read the time waveform, the orbit and the shaft centreline alongside the spectrum. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the Machinery Fault Diagnosis and Condition Monitoring course, software: None required. A vibration analyser or data collector if your employer has one. Hardware: none required. Access to one running machine, its nameplate and its bearing part numbers makes the practice tasks worth far more. The course itself is free.

Machinery Fault Diagnosis and Condition Monitoring is rated advanced. Advanced. Best after a basic vibration or maintenance course. You should already be comfortable reading a spectrum, working in mm/s and finding running speed from a nameplate. It is written for maintenance and reliability engineers and technicians, and takes about 17.1 hours at your own pace.

Skills from the Machinery Fault Diagnosis and Condition Monitoring course (for example: choose Fmax, lines of resolution and averaging for the fault you are hunting, and show the arithmetic) are used in roles such as maintenance engineer, reliability engineer, condition monitoring analyst and service technician, and in reliability engineer work. The course gives you practical evidence of the skill; it does not promise a job, and employers decide on experience and interview.