Videos Help Users Understand Vibration Analysis

Meggitt, the maker of Wilcoxon Research vibration sensors and accessories, has added a series of narrated presentations about vibration monitoring to the company's online knowledge desk. The Meggitt Sensing Systems industrial vibration training course videos are designed to explain vibration monitoring to beginner and intermediate users and help them understand how to derive the benefits of vibration analysis. The industrial vibration training course was designed to help maintenance and reliability professionals learn the fundamentals of vibration analysis in a user-friendly online format.

After watching the free online video series, viewers will better understand how vibration monitoring can be used for condition monitoring of fans, motors, pumps, blowers, compressors, chillers, gearboxes and mixers, in order to reduce failure rates in the field. This equipment is typically found in industries such as pulp and paper, nuclear power, power generation, petrochemical, oil and gas, food and beverage, chemical processing, pharmaceuticals, railway, steel making and wastewater treatment plants.

Meggitt claim that even seasoned professionals working in these industries will find the videos a good refresher of how to spot a wide variety of faults. The free industrial vibration training course is a series of seven short videos, dealing with progressively advanced vibration monitoring techniques. Module 1 starts by explaining the basic principles of vibration and how it is detected and monitored. Module 2 introduces the types of transducers and how to select the appropriate sensor.

Module 3 goes more in depth on monitoring techniques. Modules 4 through 7 discuss advanced diagnostic techniques for faults commonly detected through vibration monitoring, such as unbalance, bearing defects and stator problems. Modules 1 through 5 are currently live online and the final two modules, 6 and 7, will go online in the coming months. Videos can be watched streaming online or can be downloaded to watch offline at a more convenient time.