Vibration Analysis and Practical Solutions

Vibration analysis goes wrong in two ways. The data is collected badly, from an inconsistent point with the wrong setup, so the spectrum answers a different question each month. Or the data is good and the diagnosis stops at high vibration, which recommends a balance on a machine whose real problem is a bearing, a coupling or a foundation. This week concentrates on diagnosis: what each fault looks like, what else looks like it, and what confirms which. Delegates work on real spectra, their own where they can bring them.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Set up a measurement so the data is comparable month to month.
• Read a spectrum, a waveform and a phase measurement together.
• Separate unbalance, misalignment, looseness and bearing defect.
• Confirm a diagnosis before recommending an intervention.
• Write a recommendation a planner can schedule and justify.

Condition monitoring and reliability technicians and engineers, rotating equipment and maintenance engineers, and planners who commission the work and act on the reports.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A measurement standard for the delegate's own machines, with points and setup fixed.
• A worked diagnosis of a real fault, with the confirming evidence recorded.
• A reporting format stating the fault, the severity and the required action.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.