Course Description
This course focuses on the practical diagnosis of specific machinery faults using vibration analysis — moving beyond data collection to confident, accurate diagnosis. It covers the full range of common machinery faults and the vibration signatures that identify them.
Participants learn to diagnose unbalance, misalignment, looseness, bearing faults, gear faults, electrical faults, resonance, and flow-related problems using spectral, waveform, and phase analysis. The course is built around fault signatures and diagnostic case studies, developing the analyst's ability to reach correct conclusions from vibration data.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Diagnose unbalance, misalignment, and looseness
- Diagnose rolling element bearing faults and their stages
- Diagnose gear faults
- Diagnose electric motor faults using vibration
- Identify resonance and structural problems
- Diagnose flow-related and other faults
- Apply spectral, waveform, and phase analysis together
- Reach confident diagnoses from vibration data
How the course is delivered
The course is built around fault signatures and diagnostic case studies. Participants work through realistic vibration data for each fault type, combining spectral, waveform, and phase analysis to reach diagnoses.
The programme emphasises practical, confident machinery diagnosis across the full range of common faults.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Vibration analysts building diagnostic skill
- Condition monitoring technicians
- Reliability and rotating equipment engineers
- Maintenance engineers using vibration
- Analysts improving diagnostic accuracy
Daily programme
- The diagnostic process
- Spectral, waveform, and phase analysis together
- Setting up for diagnosis
- Fault signature fundamentals
- Unbalance diagnosis
- Misalignment diagnosis
- Mechanical looseness
- Soft foot and mounting problems
- Rolling element bearing fault stages
- Bearing diagnostic techniques
- Gear fault diagnosis
- Gearbox analysis
- Electric motor fault diagnosis
- Electrical versus mechanical faults
- Resonance identification
- Structural problems
- Flow-related and other faults
- Combining techniques for confidence
- Diagnostic case study workshop
- Review and assessment
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
