Course Description:
This course covers the techniques used to provide earlier detection of the defects before a major damage happens, ease planning of preventive maintenance activities and helps in modifying the existing assets
Course Goal:
To enhance the participants, knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to develop a cost effective methodology in the field of measuring the performance efficiency of rotating, reciprocating and static equipment..
Course Objectives:
By the end of this course, participant will be able to:
- Define preventive maintenance and condition checking.
- Understand how preventive maintenance influences total economy.
- Be familiar with types of faults and the effect of condition checking.
- Employ instruments and other aids to condition checking.
Course Outline:
- Preventive Maintenance and Condition Checking.
- Definitions.
- How preventive maintenance influences total economy.
- Effect of condition checking.
- Types of faults.
- Revision test.
- Instruments and Other Aids to Condition Checking.
- Thickness measurement.
- Measurement of coating thickness.
- Crack detection.
- Crack depth measurement.
- Leak location.
- Temperature measurement.
- Aids to visual inspection.
- Vibration measurement.
- Shock pulse measurement of rolling bearings.
- Stroboscopes
- The Stethoscope method.
- Spectrometric oil analysis.
- Radiography
- Lasers
- Future perspectives.
- Revision test
Who Can Benefit?
Maintenance engineers, equipment inspection engineers R&D specialists, equipment – design engineers & high caliber technicians in the same areas