Shaft Alignment & Bearing Installation, Maintenance & Failure Analysis

Introduction

Shaft alignment is a technical skill that is categorized as a specialty. It requires measurement instruments, calculation capability, and relies on technician’s skill and experience if good results are to be expected on high-speed, or high-temperature machines. This training course will provide an integral training knowledge and experience of shaft alignment to solve misalignment problems in rotating machinery. Emphasis will be on ways to analyze, identify and correct the root causes of misalignment, unbalancing and vibration in order to achieve smooth operation, and improved machine performance.

This course will also provide an overview of the bearing installation, maintenance and failure analysis. The topics are specially designed for engineers and technicians that have limited exposure to bearings and need to upgrade their technical knowledge regarding basic elements of lubrication system, bearing characteristics and various operating loads. The focus in the course will be on problem detection, root cause analysis and failure prevention.

The course will include discussions of various real practical problems and case studies from the existing engineering practice, which will be solved in the form of several workshops.

The seminar will highlight:

• Effects of shaft alignment
• Best methods and techniques for measurement of shaft alignment
• Guidelines for bearing installation: mounting and dismounting
• Importance of proper lubrication
• Common bearing problems and potential failures

Objectives

At the end of this seminar you will learn:

• Methods and practices for efficient alignment of rotating machine
• Use of classical reverse dial methodology as well as laser optic technique
• Guidelines for good bearing installation
• Solving common bearing problems and failure prevention
• Vibration monitoring related to bearing health

Training Methodology

The seminar will be conducted along workshop principles with formal lectures and interactive examples, which will result in the active participation of all delegates in discussions and teamwork of problem solving. Real life examples will be selected to be solved during several workshop in the form of team work which will enable understanding of the physical insight of the problems and will illustrate the efficient application of evaluation tools. There will be ample opportunities for active, open discussions and sharing professional experiences on various industrial applications. All course materials will be provided.

Organisational Impact

On completion of this seminar the delegate will be able to analyse the operation of rotating machine and associated equipment installed within the organization and suggest potential improvements where required.

The knowledge gained in this seminar will: 

• Enable the delegate to optimize the operation of rotating machine
• Give the delegate confidence to analyse efficiency of machine operation
• Enable measures to improve machine operation for the given application
• Give better handling of machine condition monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting

Personal Impact

• Improved confidence when solving problems of rotating machinery
• Better grasp of how good functioning of rotating machine impacts plant efficiency
• Better knowledge of equipment operation and instrumentation on failure prevention
• Improved personal skills for machine operation analysis
• Better ability to troubleshoot complex and difficult problems