Best Maintenance Practices Training Course

This course is designed to assist the attendee in finding, fixing, and preventing problems with rotating machinery. It is an excellent course for engineering and maintenance managers, foremen, technicians, and trades personnel to give them a broad overview of all of the facets of machinery destruction and what they can do to detect, correct, and prevent failures from occurring on their machinery. Information from several failures on machinery is presented to illustrate how problems get started, how they progress, why they occurred, and how they could have been prevented through effective maintenance work strategies. Each student that attends this 1 day course receives a copy of the class notes.

Course Objectives

- What are the root cause failures in motors, pumps, fans, compressors, turbines, generators, and gearboxes?
- The agents of destruction: static and dynamic forces, vibration, erosion, corrosion, and improper application of the machinery.
- The tools of problem identification : visual inspections, vibration analysis, infrared thermography, oil analysis, motor current signature analysis, and operational performance data such as: pressure, temperature, flow, and current.
- Basic machinery rotor-bearing design information.
- Sliding bearing design fundamentals: how they work, how to detect problems as they occur, and how to properly install them to prevent problems.
- Rolling element bearing design fundamentals: how they work, how to detect problems as they occur, and how to properly install them to prevent problems.
- Vibration analysis: what it is, problems that can be detected, and problems that cannot be detected through this powerful and effective tool.
- Start at the bottom and work up. Basic foundation and baseplate designs for rotating machinery.
- The three most overlooked problems with machinery: excessive runout, improper machine case to baseplate fit-up (aka ‘soft foot’), and piping strain.
- Why shaft misalignment is one of the leading causes of damage to rotating machinery and what you can do to prevent it.
- The symptoms of misaligned machinery... not as easy to detect as you might think!
- How to measure misalignment using any one of the five basic shaft alignment measurement techniques: face-rim, reverse indicator, shaft to coupling spool, double radial, and the face-face methods.
- Laser shaft alignment systems: how they work, what they can do and what they cannot do.
- Balancing basics ... what is imbalance?, how do you measure it?, how do you correct it?
- What additional training do you need to achieve outstanding maintenance practices in your plant?

Course Pricing
North America (United States, Canada, Mexico)
1 day Best Maintenance Practices Training Course - $3995.00 USD

International Pricing
(outside of North America)
1 day Best Maintenance Practices Training Course - $5295.00 USD

We will train up to 20 people in the course. None of the above prices include travel and living expenses.