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Vibration Category II

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Vibration Category II

Cultivate competency as a vibration analyst – capable of diagnosing a wide range of faults, conducting special tests, and performing alignment and balancing – with advanced 3D animations and interactive simulations that make everything easy to understand.
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Course Description

Learn to be an effective vibration analyst – capable of diagnosing a wide range of faults, conducting special tests, and performing precision aligning and balancing machinery – with advanced 3D animations and interactive simulations that make everything easy to understand.

You are in the right place if you are looking to take your vibration analysis career to the next step. Our VCAT-II ISO Category II course teaches you what you need to know to be a successful, confident, and competent vibration analyst.

Once you complete the training, you can take the exam with confidence, and become certified to ISO 18436-2 Category II via the internationally respected Mobius Institute Board of Certification [MIBoC]. The MIBoC certification is accredited to ISO/IEC 17024 – there is no higher standard. You will join thousands of other Mobius certified analysts around the world.
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Duration

38 Hours, typically over five days

Requirements

Training course completed
8 months of vibration analysis experience, verified by an independent person
Pass the exam
Valid for five years

Location

Acoem USA 530-G Southlake Blvd Richmond, VA 23236

Exam

Three hours
100 multiple-choice questions
70% passing grade
Can be taken online or in-person at the course

Compliance

Training and certification: ISO 18436-2
Certification: ISO 18436-1, ISO/IEC 17024
Training: ISO 18436-3

Cost

$3,125 per seat

Who Should Take This Class?

Those who will collect vibration data and need to validate that the data is good.

Those who will set up the analyzer for routine data collection and special tests.

Individuals who will be responsible for diagnosing most of the common fault conditions.

Those who will need to perform special tests to validate unbalance, misalignment, resonance, looseness, and other conditions.

Those who will need to know how to perform precision shaft alignment and balancing.

Individuals who will use the training and certification as the next step in a rewarding career as a vibration analyst.

VCAT-II Curriculum

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  • Review & Principals

    Review of maintenance practices

    Review of condition monitoring technologies

    Principals of vibration

    • Complete review of basics
    • Waveform, spectrum (FFT), phase and orbits
    • Understanding signals: modulation, beating, sum/difference

  • Data Acquisition

    • Transducer types: Non-contact displacement proximity probes, velocity sensors, accelerometers
    • Transducer selection
    • Transducer mounting and natural frequency
    • Measurement point selection
    • Following routes, and test planning
    • Common measurement errors

  • Signal Processing

    • Filters: Low pass, band pass, high pass, band stop
    • Sampling, aliasing, dynamic range
    • Resolution, Fmax, data collection time
    • Averaging: Linear, Overlap, Peak hold, Time synchronous
    • Windowing and leakage

  • Vibration Analysis & Fault Analysis

    Vibration analysis

    • Spectrum analysis
    • Time waveform analysis (introduction)
    • Orbit analysis (introduction)
    • Phase analysis: bubble diagrams and ODS
    • Enveloping (demodulation), shock pulse, spike energy, PeakVue

     

    Fault analysis

    • Natural frequencies and resonances
    • Unbalance, eccentricity and bent shaft
    • Misalignment, cocked bearing and soft foot
    • Mechanical looseness
    • Rolling element bearing analysis
    • Analysis of induction motors
    • Analysis of gears
    • Analysis of belt-driven machines
    • Analysis of pumps, compressors, and fans

  • Corrective Action, Testing, and Alarms

    Equipment testing and diagnostics

    • Impact testing and bump tests
    • Phase analysis

     

    Corrective action

    • General maintenance repair activities
    • Review of balancing process
    • Review of shaft alignment

     

    Setting alarm limits

    • Setting baselines
    • Setting alarms: band, envelope/mask, statistical

     

    Acceptance testing

     

    Review of relevant ISO standards

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