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Category 3 Vibration Certification

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Category 3 Vibration Analysis with Certification in Accordance with ISO 18436-2

4 Days. Optional 4 hr certification exam on day 5

The category 3 vibration course meets and exceeds requirements of ISO 18436-2. It is intended for students who have passed Cat II and wish to delve deeper into vibration analysis or manage CM programs.

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Category 3 Vibration (From ISO 18436-2)


Personnel classified to category III require all the knowledge, experience and skills expected of personnel classified to categories I and II, and in addition shall at least:
a) be able to design, direct and establish routine condition monitoring programs and non-routine
investigations for the purpose of fault diagnosis;


b) be able to specify the appropriate vibration instrumentation hardware, software, and processing
for portable monitoring systems, permanently installed surveillance systems, and equipment
protection systems


c) have an in-depth knowledge of the principles and techniques of machinery VA and be able to makeinitial diagnoses of suspected faults beyond the range of commonly encountered issues. This should include, but not be limited to, the use of frequency spectra, time waveforms and orbits, transfer
functions, basic operating deflection shapes, and acceleration enveloping under both steady state
and transient conditions with or without a phase trigger;

d) be able to manage such condition-monitoring programs, evaluate the alarm sets, write working
procedures and specify vibration acceptance testing procedures;

e) be able to initiate and validate machinery corrective actions including in situ two-plane rigid rotor
balancing;

f) be able to recommend restrictions to machine operation;

g) be able to understand and direct, when necessary, alternative condition monitoring technologies to verify or investigate issues raised through routine data collection;

h) be able to provide technical guidance to and instruct category I and II personnel, and, subject to
agreement with the employer or client, deem them competent to carry out certain duties which
would normally be outside the scope of those competencies.

It is the responsibility of the employer or client to ensure that category III personnel have the necessary
competency in the required management skills, e.g. creating budgets, preparing cost justifications, and
managing personnel development

Detailed Topics List – Meets or exceeds ISO 18436-2

Running a Monitoring Program
ISO Standards
Managing Condition Monitoring
KPI’s
Reliability
IIoT, Industry 4.0
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Condition Monitoring Technologies
Electric Motor Testing
IR Thermography
Ultrasound
Lube Oil Analysis
Wear Particle Analysis
Vibration systems, wireless sensors, MEMs, CM architecture, remote monitoring

Signal Processing
Signal processing block diagram
Filters
A/D Conversion
Sampling and Aliasing
Dynamic Range
Windows
Averaging
FFT
Triggering
Order Tracking

Phase Analysis
Measuring Phase
True and Relative Phase
Phase and Units
High Spot and Heavy Spot
Common faults with 1x phase (unbalance, misalignment, looseness, bent shaft, cocked bearing, eccentricity etc)
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Natural Frequencies and Resonance
Damped and Undamped Nat. Frequencies
SDOF and MDOF systems in detail
Bode and Nyquist plots
Bump tests
High spot and heavy spot
Unbalance response

Structural Testing
Operational Deflection Shapes (ODS)
Motion Amplification
Bump tests
Modal Analysis / FEA
FRF, Transmissibility, Isolation

Dealing with Resonance
Various approaches

Fault Detection
Rolling element bearings
Gears
Journal Bearings (Orbits, centerline diagrams and transient analysis)
Other common machinery malfunctions

Corrective Action
Alignment + Tolerances
Balancing (vectors, trial weights, 1 and 2 plane balancing)
No phase balancing
Balance standards
Safety

Acceptance Testing
Test procedures
Standards

Standards, Alarms and Reporting
ISO, IEC, API etc.
Advanced alarms and diagnostics
Fault severity determination
Trending
Acting on reports
Detailed Topics List