Vibration Analysis Training

Maintenance and plant technicians who already take readings but cannot yet read a spectrum, and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation graduates heading for a condition monitoring cell in cement, steel, power, refinery, paper, sugar or textile plants.

No. Nothing is bought and nothing is installed. The practice tasks are done on paper and on spectra you can get from your own plant reports or from printed examples, so the course works whether or not you have access to a data collector.

No, and it is never described as one. ISO 18436-2 categories are awarded by certification bodies after their own examination and a logged period of field experience. This course is preparation: it covers much of the same ground so that a body's syllabus and a real route make sense, and you still sit their examination separately.

Yes. Every module, practice task, practice question and the final assessment. You create an account so your progress is saved and the papers can be marked. The certificate is the only paid item, and only if you want it.

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

Mobius Institute, Mega Technical Hub and ADASH, on their own YouTube channels, and they are credited at the foot of the course page. EDWartens did not make the videos and the creators are not affiliated with EDWartens. What EDWartens wrote is the study plan, the module notes, the practice tasks and the assessments.

School arithmetic. You divide RPM by 60 for Hz, divide Fmax by lines for resolution, and multiply a balance grade by a rotor mass. Bearing fault frequencies are looked up or calculated for you.

Yes, though it is written for someone who can walk up to a machine. If you cannot, use the printed spectra and job cards in the practice tasks; the diagnosis work is the same, and the reasoning is what an interview asks about.

The Vibration Analysis Training course has 14 modules. It opens with "Condition monitoring and the case for vibration", goes through "Vibration fundamentals: motion, frequency and amplitude", "Reading the displays: spectrum and time waveform", "Resonance, natural frequency and critical speed" and "Correcting unbalance: field balancing" and ends with "Final assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the Vibration Analysis Training course: Set Fmax, lines of resolution and averages for a machine at a known running speed; Read a spectrum peak by peak and name each one as 1x, a harmonic, sub-synchronous or non-synchronous; Separate unbalance, misalignment and looseness using 1x, 2x, axial amplitude and phase readings. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the Vibration Analysis Training course, software: None required. Any spectrum plot from your own plant reports is enough for the practice tasks. Hardware: none. An accelerometer, tachometer and data collector are discussed and are not needed to finish the course. The course itself is free.

Vibration Analysis Training is rated intermediate. Intermediate. Suits maintenance and plant technicians who already do rounds, and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation graduates. No prior vibration training is needed, but you should be comfortable with RPM, Hz and a machine layout. It is written for maintenance and reliability engineers and technicians, and takes about 12.2 hours at your own pace.

Skills from the Vibration Analysis Training course (for example: set Fmax, lines of resolution and averages for a machine at a known running speed) 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.