Predictive Maintenance & Condition Monitoring
Calendar-based maintenance has a specific failure mode: it services equipment that did not need it and misses the machine that was about to fail. Condition monitoring replaces the calendar with evidence, but only where the failure develops slowly enough to be detected and the asset matters enough to justify the instrumentation. This day covers the techniques, how to read what they produce, and the assessment that decides which of your assets should be on a predictive programme at all.
Programme Agenda
Maintenance Strategies Compared
Run to failure, preventive, predictive and reliability-centred maintenance. Why run to failure is the correct choice for some assets, and the cost of applying predictive maintenance where it does not pay.
How Equipment Actually Fails
Failure patterns and the observation that most failures are not age-related, which undermines the assumption behind fixed-interval servicing. The P-F interval and what it means for inspection frequency.
Criticality Assessment
Ranking assets by consequence of failure, likelihood, and detectability. Deciding where to spend monitoring effort before buying any instrumentation.
Vibration Analysis
What vibration reveals about imbalance, misalignment, looseness and bearing degradation. Overall levels against spectral analysis, measurement points, and the trend that matters more than any single reading.
Thermography
Infrared inspection of electrical panels, connections, motors and mechanical drives. Emissivity, reflected temperature, load correction, and reporting a finding with the severity a manager can act on.
Oil Analysis and Ultrasound
Wear particles, contamination and lubricant degradation, and the sampling discipline that determines whether results mean anything. Ultrasound for leaks, electrical discharge and early bearing faults.
Motor Current Signature Analysis
Detecting rotor bar and stator faults from the current waveform without touching the machine. Where it complements vibration and where it is the only practical option.
Alarms, Trending and the Business Case
Setting thresholds that catch a real trend without generating noise, integrating results into the work order system, and building the investment case on avoided downtime, avoided secondary damage and deferred capital.
Learning Outcomes:
Select the right maintenance strategy for each asset class
Explain failure patterns and the P-F interval implications for inspection
Rank assets by criticality before committing to monitoring investment
Interpret vibration measurements for the common mechanical faults
Conduct and report a thermographic inspection with correct severity
Apply oil analysis and ultrasound with proper sampling discipline
Use motor current signature analysis where vibration is impractical
Set alarm thresholds and build the investment case on avoided cost
Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: All levels
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included
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