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:

1. Define preventive maintenance and condition checking.
2. Understand how preventive maintenance influences total economy.
3. Be familiar with types of faults and the effect of condition checking.
4. Employ instruments and other aids to condition checking.

Course Outline:

• Preventive Maintenance and Condition Checking.

1. Definitions.
2. How preventive maintenance influences total economy.
3. Effect of condition checking.
4. Types of faults.
5. Revision test.

• Instruments and Other Aids to Condition Checking.

1. Thickness measurement.
2. Measurement of coating thickness.
3. Crack detection.
4. Crack depth measurement.
5. Leak location.
6. Temperature measurement.
7. Aids to visual inspection.
8. Vibration measurement.
9. Shock pulse measurement of rolling bearings.
10. Stroboscopes
11. The Stethoscope method.
12. Spectrometric oil analysis.
13. Radiography
14. Lasers
15. Future perspectives.
16. Revision test

Who Can Benefit?

Maintenance engineers, equipment inspection engineers R&D specialists, equipment – design engineers & high caliber technicians in the same areas