Course Description
Understanding why machinery fails is the foundation of preventing failure. This course develops the ability to analyse machinery failures, identify their root causes, and implement effective prevention strategies across rotating and static equipment.
Participants learn the mechanisms of mechanical failure — fatigue, wear, corrosion, overload, and lubrication-related failures — and the systematic techniques used to investigate them. The course combines failure mechanism theory with practical failure analysis methodology, equipping engineers to turn failure investigations into reliability improvements.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the mechanisms of machinery failure
- Analyse fatigue, wear, corrosion, and overload failures
- Investigate bearing, gear, shaft, and seal failures
- Apply systematic failure analysis methodology
- Interpret failure evidence and fracture surfaces
- Identify root causes of mechanical failure
- Develop and implement failure prevention strategies
- Link failure analysis to reliability improvement
How the course is delivered
The course combines failure mechanism theory with practical failure analysis case studies and evidence interpretation exercises. Participants examine real failure examples across bearings, gears, shafts, and seals.
The programme balances metallurgical and mechanical failure understanding with systematic investigation methodology.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Reliability and maintenance engineers
- Mechanical and rotating equipment engineers
- Failure analysts and investigators
- Condition monitoring specialists
- Anyone investigating machinery failures
Daily programme
- Why machinery fails
- Failure mechanisms overview
- Stress, strain, and material behaviour
- The failure analysis approach
- Fatigue failure mechanisms
- Fracture surface interpretation
- Overload and ductile/brittle failure
- Fractography basics
- Wear mechanisms
- Corrosion-related failures
- Lubrication-related failures
- Bearing and gear failure modes
- Systematic failure analysis methodology
- Evidence collection and preservation
- Root cause identification
- Failure analysis reporting
- Turning findings into prevention
- Design and material improvements
- Maintenance and operating improvements
- Case study workshop and review
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.
