2017 Schedule of Events

The Practical Vibration Analysis workshop, presented by Scott Dow, will provide an opportunity to sharpen your diagnostic skills and strengthen your depth of knowledge. This is no ordinary conference workshop. You will be challenged. You will be made to think. And you will learn essential skills that all vibration analysts must have to confidently diagnose the trickiest fault conditions (that might otherwise leave you frustrated and even embarrassed). Rather than teaching you how to diagnose faults, you will actually try to diagnose faults yourself. You will either learn from your mistakes or gain confidence from your victories.

During the workshop you will be grouped in a small team of three vibration analysts and given access to a range of information and data. You can ask for additional information, and you can perform additional tests, but everything you do will cost “points”. The aim is for your team to solve each of the diagnostic challenges (while being coached by Scott) and “beat” the other teams.

Scott has years of experience in vibration analysis and training (he is a senior Mobius Institute instructor) and the case studies you will solve have been chosen to include a range of difficulties and applications. So whether you are Category I or Category IV, you will gain a lot from this workshop.

Unfortunately, space is strictly limited and the available places will be taken quickly, so please register soon.

Here are some testimonials from people have been through this experience previously (during our “Vibration Analyst Flight School” courses).

“Experience is the best teacher and this class provides the opportunity to gain experience and learn from mistakes without the pain of having to explain why you made those mistakes to upper management.”
Eugene Begley, Cat I

“There is nothing as valuable as learning from experience. Taking difficult problems, trying to solve them and then having someone walk you through the solution is priceless.”
Sheldon Bayles, Cat II

“This class was one of the best I’ve ever attended due to the practical, hands-on approach.”
Dan Fiscus, Cat III

A mechanical engineer by trade, Scott Dow has been working in the vibration world for over 25 years. During that time, he has worked extensively as a field analyst and as a trainer, teaching formal classes and also mentoring clients individually and in small groups. During the mid-90s, Scott developed an innovative training technique based on recreating interesting and educational case studies he had encountered. Students would receive the actual data to analyze and were free to request any field tests they thought would help them diagnose the problem, which eventually they would have to do in the form of a submitted report that was assessed in light of the actual (known) case fault(s). In practice, this method has proven to be highly successful, allowing students to bridge the divide between theory and successful application of that theory in identifying machinery faults. You can find this case study technique being used as an important part of Mobius’ new class on Time Waveform Analysis (TWA).

Scott currently owns his own business, CBM Consultants, with one of his primary duties being  the Principle Instructor for Mobius Institute North America. When he is not conducting Mobius classes, he continues to mentor both individuals and small groups with either on-site or remote support for database setup, building analysis skills, field testing and more.

In the “old days” of vibration, time signal analysis was what you did – generally on an oscilloscope from a signal recorded on a tape recorder. The modern world of vibration seems to think that time signal analysis is complicated. If you are in this category, you need to attend this workshop. Going from the very simple steps of one and then two sine waves, learn how to understand the wealth of diagnostic information that is in that time signal. The course will focus on ultrasound signals, but if you need some help just for vibration you will find this course useful.

Degree in Acoustics Chartered Engineer Certified Reliability Leader 33 years in vibration measurement, 22 years using IR and 16 years using ultrasound. Tom Murphy has worked in the field of vibration measurement and specifically condition monitoring for most of his professional life. He now assists Companies to develop or re-vitalise their programs with a clear focus on the overlap between the various technologies.

The workshop session addresses Life Cycle Management of rotating equipment by exploring some common scenarios involving “failure” or damage of rolling element bearings.

Examples are used to highlight, in a practical way, the connections (or lack thereof) between bearing technology (product selection & specification), original equipment design (bearing system design & application engineering), damage identification (condition monitoring), maintenance (primarily lubrication) and fault diagnosis (reliability engineering).

ISO damage classifications will be used and elaborated.

Some aspects of vibration analysis will be explored from a bearing technology and application engineering perspective.

Darren has in-depth knowledge of rolling bearing technology, selection & application design. He has 29 years’ experience with industrial rotating equipment applications; performance and reliability issues related to rolling bearing arrangements.
• 1988 – 1997 Application Engineer, SKF NZ & SKF Australia
• 1998 – 2000 Application Development Engineer, CARB™ roller bearings, SKF Sweden
• 2001 – 2007 Business Development Manager – Continuous Casting, Asia-Pacific region, SKF Metals Industry Team
• 2004 – 2007 Application Engineering Manager, SKF Australia
• 2007 – 2008 Services Delivery Manager, SKF Australia
• 2009 to date Engineering Manager, SKF Australia

The Practical Vibration Analysis workshop, presented by Scott Dow, will provide an opportunity to sharpen your diagnostic skills and strengthen your depth of knowledge. This is no ordinary conference workshop. You will be challenged. You will be made to think. And you will learn essential skills that all vibration analysts must have to confidently diagnose the trickiest fault conditions (that might otherwise leave you frustrated and even embarrassed). Rather than teaching you how to diagnose faults, you will actually try to diagnose faults yourself. You will either learn from your mistakes or gain confidence from your victories.

During the workshop you will be grouped in a small team of three vibration analysts and given access to a range of information and data. You can ask for additional information, and you can perform additional tests, but everything you do will cost “points”. The aim is for your team to solve each of the diagnostic challenges (while being coached by Scott) and “beat” the other teams.

Scott has years of experience in vibration analysis and training (he is a senior Mobius Institute instructor) and the case studies you will solve have been chosen to include a range of difficulties and applications. So whether you are Category I or Category IV, you will gain a lot from this workshop.

Unfortunately, space is strictly limited and the available places will be taken quickly, so please register soon.

Here are some testimonials from people have been through this experience previously (during our “Vibration Analyst Flight School” courses).

“Experience is the best teacher and this class provides the opportunity to gain experience and learn from mistakes without the pain of having to explain why you made those mistakes to upper management.”
Eugene Begley, Cat I

“There is nothing as valuable as learning from experience. Taking difficult problems, trying to solve them and then having someone walk you through the solution is priceless.”
Sheldon Bayles, Cat II

“This class was one of the best I’ve ever attended due to the practical, hands-on approach.”
Dan Fiscus, Cat III

A mechanical engineer by trade, Scott Dow has been working in the vibration world for over 25 years. During that time, he has worked extensively as a field analyst and as a trainer, teaching formal classes and also mentoring clients individually and in small groups. During the mid-90s, Scott developed an innovative training technique based on recreating interesting and educational case studies he had encountered. Students would receive the actual data to analyze and were free to request any field tests they thought would help them diagnose the problem, which eventually they would have to do in the form of a submitted report that was assessed in light of the actual (known) case fault(s). In practice, this method has proven to be highly successful, allowing students to bridge the divide between theory and successful application of that theory in identifying machinery faults. You can find this case study technique being used as an important part of Mobius’ new class on Time Waveform Analysis (TWA).

Scott currently owns his own business, CBM Consultants, with one of his primary duties being  the Principle Instructor for Mobius Institute North America. When he is not conducting Mobius classes, he continues to mentor both individuals and small groups with either on-site or remote support for database setup, building analysis skills, field testing and more.

Orbit plots, centerline plots, full-spectrum plots, Bode plots and polar plots hold critical information, but how do you interpret them, and where does the data come from? This workshop will answer those questions using the famous Mobius animations and simulators. After explaining the proximity probe and keyphasor measurements (including direct, compensated and filtered data), we will explain each of the plot formats and cover a number of fault conditions: unbalance, preload, looseness, rubs, oil whirl and oil whip. We will also discuss a little about the bearings (spherical, elliptical and tilt-pad) and rotor dynamics (mode shapes, criticals, phase shift). It will be animated and interesting, and a great introduction for Category III and IV training/certification.

Jason Tranter (BE Hons) has been involved with condition monitoring and vibration analysis since 1984. In 1986 Jason formed his Australian company, ARGO, which was heavily involved in vibration monitoring and systems development. In 1990 he sold that company and the “ALERT” product line to DLI Engineering in Seattle (now AzimaDLI). Jason was in charge of product development, and later in charge of vibration products. In 1996 Jason returned to Australia and for the next three years he developed the ExpertALERT (EAV), DCX data collector, and DCX Online products for DLI Engineering. In 1999 Jason formed Mobius and began the development of the iLearnInteractive series of computer-based products for vibration and alignment training and analysis, including iLearnVibration, iLearnAlignment and Interpreter. These products have been used by thousands of people in over 90 countries to learn and become certified. Mobius was awarded the Victorian Regional Exporter of the year and was a finalist in the Australian Export Awards for 2007 and 2008. In 2005 Jason formed the “Mobius Institute” for expanded distance learning and public courses, and courses that comply with ISO and ASNT standards for certification. Mobius has offices in Australia, the United States and Costa Rica, and training centers in over 40 countries. In 2010 Jason formed the Mobius Institute Board of Certification, a not-for-profit organization to make it possible for vibration analysts anywhere in the world to achieve certification per ISO 18436-1. Jason has delivered technical papers around the world, and has had articles published in numerous international magazines and journals.

Motor testing has long been considered a luxury or a waste of time and resources. After all, a motor either runs or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t run, a simple check of the winding continuity and the value of the insulation resistance to ground will determine the condition of the motor.
Performing additional testing requires specialized & expensive testing equipment with highly trained personnel and provide limited success (identifying only approximately 10% of motor faults). These faults will reduce operating efficiency, machine life and increased maintenance costs.
This workshop shows you how to use 2 field proven (MCA™ & ESA), easy to use, standardized techniques to identify all of the identifiable faults within a motor system. MCA™ uses a series of low voltage tests to fully excite the winding insulation systems while the motor or any winding system is de-energized. This makes MCA™ extremely useful in inspecting new and rebuilt motors to identify the 25 – 30% of the issues that are present in “New” motors, MCA™ also provides the only method for early detection of the winding system insulation breakdown.

ESA uses the motors own operating voltage and current to identify existing and developing faults in the entire motor system,. ESA performs a simultaneous data capture of all three phases of voltage and current to create a power quality table that completely evaluates the condition of the motors electrical system. ESA also performs multiple FFT’s on captured voltage and current waveforms to identify mechanical or process faults the motor system.
This workshop focuses on the ease in performing these tests as well as analyzing the results. The workshop will describe the various faults that can be detected using each of these techniques.

William Kruger joined ALL-TEST Pro, LLC as the Technical Manager in 2005. Since joining ATP, Bill has traveled the world teaching the Theory and Application of Motor Diagnostics, helping Fortune 500 Companies implement Predictive Maintenance Programs. In 2010 Bill’s proven instructional techniques earned him the new title of Training Technical Manager. Before joining ALL-TEST Pro, LLC Bill Kruger worked in many different aspects of the Engineering and Maintenance Fields. Bill worked as an Electrician in the US Navy Nuclear Submarine Program. He has completed the Journeyman Electrician Program and started one of the first Predictive Maintenance Programs in the Utility Industry. Bill Kruger holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from San Diego University. With his combined work in the field as well as with ALL-TEST Pro, Bill has over 40 years of proven experience in the practical engineering and predictive maintenance field.

Is your company struggling to achieve or sustain precision lubrication?  While you’re attending IMVAC 2017 in Orlando, listen to Malcolm Osenton describe the precision lubrication transformation at The Mosaic Company.  His story describes overcoming deeply rooted organizational belief that precision lubrication cannot be achieved.

The transformation starts with facing the reality of current lubrication practices and cracking through barriers to change.  Malcolm will share insight into shifting culture through intentional focus and sustained effort.  The transformation has some setback along the way, but persistent pursuit of the ultimate goal finds ways to overcome obstacles.  Learn about breakthrough activities that became crucial accelerators to improvement.  Malcolm will describe results achieved through the transformation and future focus of Mosaic’s Precision Lubrication process.

Malcolm Osenton has more than 30 years of experience in maintenance, reliability & engineering management.  He is currently the Sr. Manager of Asset Integrity for Mosaic’s phosphate business unit, responsible for asset reliability improvements across 10 facilities.   In his career, he has held leadership positions while working in the pulp & paper industry for 15 years, consulting engineering for 3 years and the last 14 years in the fertilizer Industry.  Malcolm is a graduate of the University of South Alabama with a degree in Civil Engineering.  He is currently pursuing a Master’s of Science in Operations Management at the University of Alabama.  He is a Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional and a Certified Reliability Leader.

Matthews’s first engineering position was ‘Anticipative Maintenance Systems Engineer’ for a large chemical company when the hard drive capacity of PC’s was just 10 megabytes! Since then he has trained many students and companies in the Asia Pacific Rim to be successful reliability focused CM Analysts themselves. Extensive experience with Infra-red Thermography, Oil Analysis, Machine Alignment, Precision Maintenance Philosophy, Failure Analysis and a good knowledge of large electro-mechanical rotating machinery have enabled Matthew to provide a valuable machine problem solving service to all types of industry for many years in the Asia Pacific Rim. Matthew founded two of industries most respected Condition Monitoring companies Asset Reliability Services and Asset Quality.

Tim Sundström, born 1964 in Sweden, has a M.Sc. degree in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from Linköping University, Sweden. For over twenty years, he has been specializing in electronics development and has held managerial positions in the field since 1992. In 2001, he joined SPM Instrument as head of Research and Development, where he has been deeply involved in SPM HD development and field evaluations.

Heavy earth moving equipment play a vital role in the achieving of production targets for any open cut mine. To ensure safe operation and increase the availability of these assets, effective reliability and condition monitoring program is mandatory. The operating dynamics of these heavy earth moving equipment pose certain challenges for vibration analysis specialists to produce accurate prognostics of its critical components. This paper provides continuous (online) condition monitoring over the Internet, remote data analysis and prognostic solutions for heavy earth moving equipment including draglines and electric rope shovels in particular. In the proposed solution, the data acquisition is optimized by mitigating the impact of machine’s dynamics, i.e., variable speed, load and direction into the vibration data. The discussion also comprises of technical cases on diagnosing bearing and gearmesh faults on these critical assets.

David served 10 years as a Fitter Machinist in the Australian Defence Force and has a further 20 years’ experience in condition monitoring and NDT.
He is currently responsible for the coordination of vibration analysis and NDT at Rio Tinto’s Hail Creek coal mine. This includes variable speed; variable direction equipment being monitored remotely by on-line technology.

Paulo has over 20 years of experience in condition-based maintenance services including vibration analysis, infrared thermography, lubricant analysis, electrical motor testing and non-destructive testing.
He is currently responsible for SKF’s Global Condition-Based Maintenance Service Standards. These standards outline the know-how for local capability set-up and delivery of CBM Services. The standardization helps SKF to maximize efficiency, safety, repeatability and quality while enabling SKF Smart Analytics Digitalization.

The reality of maintaining and operating industrial equipment is there are always problems. People who can solve problems efficiently and effectively are usually highly valued. This presentation cover the basics of Root Cause Analysis (RCA), which is widely accepted as the best way to achieve effective problems solving. It focused on the Five Why’s approach to RCA, which is a very efficient approach. The most useful techniques for applying RCA industrial equipment will be encompassed. An actual pump bearing failure problem will be used as a case study to illustrate the approach.

Peter is a Mechanical Engineer with an extensive background Asset Management and Reliability Engineering. He worked for the Steelworks in Wollongong for over 27 years, for Shell Services for 3 year, for SIRF Roundtables for 12 years as the NSW Industrial Maintenance Roundtable Facilitator and now works freelance. His experience includes maintenance management, reliability engineering, maintenance strategy, machine condition monitoring and RCA failure investigations. He has experience in a wide range of equipment and processes from raw materials handling to turbo machinery, with bearings as a specialty. Peter’s specialist areas are in Condition Monitoring, Failure Analysis and Reliability Engineering.

Wendy believes she had been very lucky to have worked in culturally diverse companies in different countries, where differences are valued and respected.

Her experience includes residential mining roles, fly in fly out, and global corporate roles. Wendy brings extensive mining experience and working knowledge of rotating equipment, pumps, gearboxes, motors, ball mills, crusher, feeders and conveyor systems. Using ConMon best practice when developing holistic maintenance strategies has produced incredible results in all organizations.

In her current role, she is accountable for the development, implementation and optimization of a sustainable ConMon improvement programs that positions BHP as a best practice globally competitive business.

Education: BEng, Certified vibration level III analyst, Certified level 1 UT technician, Level 1&2 trained Noria oil lubrication certification

Mr. Sven Fleischer has extensive experience in the condition monitoring fileld.
He has been with PRUFTECHNIK for more than 21 years and while he has accumulated diagnostic skills and experience in condition monitoring vibration analysis and as a specialist as machinery analyst pertaining to field balancing and
commissioning of online system. His previous vocation in PRUFTECHNIK Germany was as an instructor and trainer for condition monitoring

Highly motivated and with over 21 year experience, he enjoys to support partner and clients.
Born in Germany and now based in Singapore, he is helping to implement Predictive and Preventative Maintenance Strategies. Looking always forward to gain on new experiences and knowledge.
With passion responsible to create a Sales/Service network for existing and new markets in South East Asia and Oceania.

♦ Direct Sales and Service
♦ Vibration Analyst Cat III – ISO 18436-2
♦ MOBIUS authorized ISO Cat I-III Vibration Analysis Instructor
♦ Partner Network in SEA and OCEANIA
♦ Marketing and Business Activities
♦ Reliability Solution – Condition Monitoring CBM
♦ Vibration Analysis and Troubleshooting
♦ Geometrical Laser Alignment
♦ CRM Systems
♦ Dynamic Field Balancing
♦ Stress Analysis at Machines
♦ Tele- and Remote Monitoring Solutions
♦ Training and Consulting
♦ After Sales Service and technical Support.

Sven works more than 20 years in Machinery-Reliability Business. Starting with PRUFTECHNIK Group in Germany as engineer, he builds his experience with field services and vibration troubleshooting analysis. The recent years he consults customer and supports sales channel in Asia-Pacific region through Singapore. As one of the technology leader for intelligent measurement systems, PRUFTECHNIK help to optimize production and increase machine availability. Sven is authorized Instructor for ISO Vibration Analysis courses in Singapore.

Vibration analysis is powerful, but so are ultrasound, motor current/circuit testing, oil analysis, wear particle testing and infrared analysis. Have you ever wondered how those technologies work? Have you wondered how they can contribute key diagnostic information that supports vibration analysis? Have you wondered what else can be learned from those technologies that can’t be learned from vibration analysis? Well, in this 90 minute double-session we will use the famous Mobius animations and you will learn all that and more.

Jason Tranter (BE Hons) has been involved with condition monitoring and vibration analysis since 1984. In 1986 Jason formed his Australian company, ARGO, which was heavily involved in vibration monitoring and systems development. In 1990 he sold that company and the “ALERT” product line to DLI Engineering in Seattle (now AzimaDLI). Jason was in charge of product development, and later in charge of vibration products. In 1996 Jason returned to Australia and for the next three years he developed the ExpertALERT (EAV), DCX data collector, and DCX Online products for DLI Engineering. In 1999 Jason formed Mobius and began the development of the iLearnInteractive series of computer-based products for vibration and alignment training and analysis, including iLearnVibration, iLearnAlignment and Interpreter. These products have been used by thousands of people in over 90 countries to learn and become certified. Mobius was awarded the Victorian Regional Exporter of the year and was a finalist in the Australian Export Awards for 2007 and 2008. In 2005 Jason formed the “Mobius Institute” for expanded distance learning and public courses, and courses that comply with ISO and ASNT standards for certification. Mobius has offices in Australia, the United States and Costa Rica, and training centers in over 40 countries. In 2010 Jason formed the Mobius Institute Board of Certification, a not-for-profit organization to make it possible for vibration analysts anywhere in the world to achieve certification per ISO 18436-1. Jason has delivered technical papers around the world, and has had articles published in numerous international magazines and journals.

This talk will discuss the common method of averaging and is this still a requirement in the way we do vibration readings today. A better method which will save you a lot of time and give you better quality data is explored and explained through use of measurements on real machines. A short mathematical explanation is also given to show the backing of the argument.

Clyde started his career in a paper mill and qualified as an electrical technician. He soon realised his passion was teaching though so in 1990 Clyde started the Vibration Institute of South Africa, this Institute soon became a leading training company there. In 2000 he moved to Australia and in 2003 started The Vibration Institute of Australia, he now runs courses throughout the world and is the Mobius agent for Australia and New Zealand. Further he has also done work in many industries helping set up their databases. Clyde has trained over 10000 people during his life, his focus is to change the ways companies think about Condition Monitoring, guiding them towards a more holistic idea of Reliability Maintenance. He has also given talks around the world.

For many years we have seen that companies often run a condition monitoring program as additional insurance within their scheduled maintenance strategy. Condition monitoring has provided a “watch dog” approach and has been very successful in detecting developing faults (particularly in rotating equipment) that fall between maintenance schedules and planned outages. This strategy works well in an environment of high profits and margins. In today’s market conditions the challenge is moving this overhead into an effective strategy that drives change, eliminates failures, increases availability and controls cost whilst not affecting risk. Asset Performance Management (APM), the final destination in our Asset Health Solutions journey, is about understanding and quantifying asset health. A question we ask our clients is “if you knew the health of your equipment and you had confidence that it will reliably operate would you carry out the scheduled maintenance on that asset?” In other words they want to operate their business as best-in-class, leveraging technology to deliver outcomes that reduce risk whilst increase business margins. Our process is focused around Education, Discovery, Partnering, and Solution Design to deliver an outcome based solution that forms a fully costed business case, detailing full prioritised solutions and return on investment analysis. This NVMS presentation documents the journey one client is taking, showing their wins and some lessons learnt along the way.

Vibration analysis is powerful, but so are ultrasound, motor current/circuit testing, oil analysis, wear particle testing and infrared analysis. Have you ever wondered how those technologies work? Have you wondered how they can contribute key diagnostic information that supports vibration analysis? Have you wondered what else can be learned from those technologies that can’t be learned from vibration analysis? Well, in this 90 minute double-session we will use the famous Mobius animations and you will learn all that and more.

Jason Tranter (BE Hons) has been involved with condition monitoring and vibration analysis since 1984. In 1986 Jason formed his Australian company, ARGO, which was heavily involved in vibration monitoring and systems development. In 1990 he sold that company and the “ALERT” product line to DLI Engineering in Seattle (now AzimaDLI). Jason was in charge of product development, and later in charge of vibration products. In 1996 Jason returned to Australia and for the next three years he developed the ExpertALERT (EAV), DCX data collector, and DCX Online products for DLI Engineering. In 1999 Jason formed Mobius and began the development of the iLearnInteractive series of computer-based products for vibration and alignment training and analysis, including iLearnVibration, iLearnAlignment and Interpreter. These products have been used by thousands of people in over 90 countries to learn and become certified. Mobius was awarded the Victorian Regional Exporter of the year and was a finalist in the Australian Export Awards for 2007 and 2008. In 2005 Jason formed the “Mobius Institute” for expanded distance learning and public courses, and courses that comply with ISO and ASNT standards for certification. Mobius has offices in Australia, the United States and Costa Rica, and training centers in over 40 countries. In 2010 Jason formed the Mobius Institute Board of Certification, a not-for-profit organization to make it possible for vibration analysts anywhere in the world to achieve certification per ISO 18436-1. Jason has delivered technical papers around the world, and has had articles published in numerous international magazines and journals.

A mechanical engineer by trade, Scott Dow has been working in the vibration world for over 25 years. During that time, he has worked extensively as a field analyst and as a trainer, teaching formal classes and also mentoring clients individually and in small groups. During the mid-90s, Scott developed an innovative training technique based on recreating interesting and educational case studies he had encountered. Students would receive the actual data to analyze and were free to request any field tests they thought would help them diagnose the problem, which eventually they would have to do in the form of a submitted report that was assessed in light of the actual (known) case fault(s). In practice, this method has proven to be highly successful, allowing students to bridge the divide between theory and successful application of that theory in identifying machinery faults. You can find this case study technique being used as an important part of Mobius’ new class on Time Waveform Analysis (TWA).

Scott currently owns his own business, CBM Consultants, with one of his primary duties being  the Principle Instructor for Mobius Institute North America. When he is not conducting Mobius classes, he continues to mentor both individuals and small groups with either on-site or remote support for database setup, building analysis skills, field testing and more.

SteamGas Turbines and Compressors provide a stressful environment for lubes to survive in. As equipment duty cycles are increasingly demanding on oil, the oil formulations are evolving to deal with these changing conditions. These new oil formulations are more advanced, but require more care to ensure maximum performance and oil life. Oil Condition Monitoring (OCM) provides the most advanced and up-to-date knowledge available to assist asset owners and operators to get the most from their new longer lasting & higher performing lubes.

Wayne is based in Melbourne. He has direct involvement with 50+ varnish mitigation cases in Australia across many of nation’s largest companies – BHP, Woodside, Energy Australia, Origin Energy, Esso and more.

Spherical roller bearings in plummer blocks are used widely in larger slow speed applications such as conveyor main pulleys bearings and slow speed drive shafts. Usually when you look at the loads on these bearings and their L10 life specification, it is easy to make the conclusion that they should achieve very high levels of reliability but this is often not the case. If you go to one plant, site people often have trouble remembering the last slow speed bearing failure and then you can go to another site with similar equipment, product and environmental conditions and slow speed bearing failures are a painful ongoing regular occurrence. This presentation will give the reasons for tise difference in reliability performance and discuss the options for condition monitoring and elimination of the dominant failure modes.

This paper will discuss through the use of case histories why we see harmonics of the bearing frequencies and why they are surrounded by sidebands. Real case histories and the use of simulators will aid the explanation of this phenomenon and offer deeper and better understand of why this occurs. This method can be extended to other area of diagnosis like gears, certain motor defects and many other defects which will be elaborated in this talk.

In today’s competitive business marketplace, there is high competition within sections/ departments of a business for justifying resource and investment requirements. Even good CM programs without Proactive and Business focused KPIs, are unable to emphasise high returns they generate for the business. Hence they struggles to get the attention and investment required to expand move forward to higher levels. This leads to demotivation and stagnation in CM programs, in some situations even in staff retrenchments as they are perceived to be non-essential to business plan.

This paper addresses core issues related to setting up KPIs, truly reflecting the positive impact of CM program achievements, on the efficiency and competitiveness of the business. The role of various stakeholders (higher management, Engineering, Maintenance, Production, Quality, HS&E etc…) in setting up high performing KPI will be discussed, in different scenarios of type of business/ markets.

The range of high performance KPIs will be presented in segregated categories for different businesses stakeholders and discussed in details about their impact on overall business performance. Management reporting system modelling will also be discussed, which is focused on performance indicators that are relevant to various stakeholders and the generated reports are customised to stakeholder’s preferences and competencies.

Tarun Motwani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, MBA-Finance, VA Cat IV certificate, with 26 years of industrial experience. He is working as Senior Engineer- condition Monitoring in Visy paper, and has worked in in various type of industries, including petrochemicals, mining, steelmaking, pulp & Paper, food processing building products etc. His skill set includes vibration analysis, IR Thermography, Oil Analysis, Airborne Ultrasonics, Motor testing and Root Cause Failure Analysis, and technical delivery in these technologies. His past certifications include ASNT Level III in IR, Level II certification in oil analysis, Level I certification in UT. He is currently involved in automated integration of different condition monitoring technologies, to optimize their usage in ever expanding online systems and by even moderately skilled personnel in all these technologies.

Tim Sundström, born 1964 in Sweden, has a M.Sc. degree in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from Linköping University, Sweden. For over twenty years, he has been specializing in electronics development and has held managerial positions in the field since 1992. In 2001, he joined SPM Instrument as head of Research and Development, where he has been deeply involved in SPM HD development and field evaluations.

This paper will discuss through the use of case histories why we see harmonics of the bearing frequencies and why they are surrounded by sidebands. Real case histories and the use of simulators will aid the explanation of this phenomenon and offer deeper and better understand of why this occurs. This method can be extended to other area of diagnosis like gears, certain motor defects and many other defects which will be elaborated in this talk.

Degree in Acoustics Chartered Engineer Certified Reliability Leader 33 years in vibration measurement, 22 years using IR and 16 years using ultrasound. Tom Murphy has worked in the field of vibration measurement and specifically condition monitoring for most of his professional life. He now assists Companies to develop or re-vitalise their programs with a clear focus on the overlap between the various technologies.

Mark has an Electrical Engineering background, with 20+ years in the field of reliability covering disciplines ranging from vibration analysis, infra-red thermography, electric motor testing through to tribology. He has worked in various industrial sectors including aluminium, chemical, paper, steel, sugar, waste water and treatment plants, renewable energy and mining.
Currently he is working for Schaeffler Australia as the Industrial Services Manager looking after offline and online condition-monitoring systems and maintenance products.

Ultrasound has long been accepted as a correlation condition monitoring technology for thermography, one sees what you can’t see and the other hears what you can’t hear. They are both intuitive and enhance key human senses and have been utilised by all industry sectors as essential front line tools.

However, with significant advances in both onboard instrument capabilities and software diagnostics, the applications for ultrasound now compliment the limitations of vibration analysis and oil/grease analysis especially in the realms of slow/low speed, variable speed, load and reversing direction assets.

Come and learn how Rio Tinto have utilised this technology on their capital-intensive assets with great results.

Ian’s primary areas of expertise are in the key facets of asset management, reliability and maintenance Engineering. Special interests are the development of condition based maintenance strategies with a passion for Ultrasonics. With over 25 years’ experience across mining, oil & gas, petrochemical, power generation, food and beverage, metals processing, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and defence industry verticals, he brings a diverse and practical approach to his clients. He secured the world leading UE Systems product line under his own company, Ultra-Tek, in 2010 as their master distributer and offers sales, service, calibration and technical support for UE Systems customers with a heavy emphasis on training.

With an enthusiastic presentation style, he creates a great learning environment and now has a loyal client base of some 200 customers.

Ian has a Bachelor of Engineering in Production Engineering, is a certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional, a certified Change Management facilitator and a Level II Certified Ultrasound Instructor. Ian is also active with Standards Australia on ME087 as an industry expert on the adoption and implementation of ISO 18436 (Parts 6 & 8) Ultrasound Standards. His professional experience spans 27 years. During this period, he has worked for IRD Mechanalysis, Entek, Shell, PALL Corporation and GPAllied before starting Ultra-Tek in early 2010. Ian is based out of the Gold Coast of Australia.

John is the owner of Tensor Systems which designs, manufactures, installs and offers Total Customer Support for its Online Permanent Monitoring Systems incorporating Vibration, Electrical and Oil analysis. He is a Mechanical Engineer and widely respected for his focus on the technical excellence of his systems and the service he provides. John has been involved with R&D on bearing, motor and gearbox analysis systems since 1987 and has developed an automated process for separating gear and bearing faults and trending them under different alarm limits. Automation is essential to check the vast amounts of data an Online Condition Monitoring Systems produces. He holds some important patents around these technologies.

Jason Tranter (BE Hons) has been involved with condition monitoring and vibration analysis since 1984. In 1986 Jason formed his Australian company, ARGO, which was heavily involved in vibration monitoring and systems development. In 1990 he sold that company and the “ALERT” product line to DLI Engineering in Seattle (now AzimaDLI). Jason was in charge of product development, and later in charge of vibration products. In 1996 Jason returned to Australia and for the next three years he developed the ExpertALERT (EAV), DCX data collector, and DCX Online products for DLI Engineering. In 1999 Jason formed Mobius and began the development of the iLearnInteractive series of computer-based products for vibration and alignment training and analysis, including iLearnVibration, iLearnAlignment and Interpreter. These products have been used by thousands of people in over 90 countries to learn and become certified. Mobius was awarded the Victorian Regional Exporter of the year and was a finalist in the Australian Export Awards for 2007 and 2008. In 2005 Jason formed the “Mobius Institute” for expanded distance learning and public courses, and courses that comply with ISO and ASNT standards for certification. Mobius has offices in Australia, the United States and Costa Rica, and training centers in over 40 countries. In 2010 Jason formed the Mobius Institute Board of Certification, a not-for-profit organization to make it possible for vibration analysts anywhere in the world to achieve certification per ISO 18436-1. Jason has delivered technical papers around the world, and has had articles published in numerous international magazines and journals.

Puji Setyo Nugroho was born in Solo, Indonesia in 1984. He received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Aeronautics Engineering from Institute of Technology Bandung in 2007. He joined Nusantara Turbine & Propulsion, a maintenance repair and overhaul company in Bandung, and started his career as a junior rotating engineer for industrial gas turbine engine in 2007. After 3.5 years experiences in Nusantara Turbine & Propulsion, he joined VICO Indonesia, an oil and gas company in East Kalimantan, in 2011 as mechanical rotating engineer and works there until now. He also became supervisor of Reliability Based Maintenance team that is responsible for condition monitoring activities of rotating equipment in VICO Indonesia. He has certified as ISO 18436-2 Category II Vibration Analyst in 2015. During 6 years of his career in VICO Indonesia, he has given contributions for the operation and maintenance of rotating equipment in VICO Indonesia. He developed the condition monitoring program of oil injected-screw compressor for well head compressor application. When the hard time of oil and gas industry started in 2015, he helped the VICO Indonesia’s management to develop maintenance efficiency strategy and conducted plant optimization program. Working in VICO Indonesia has developed his skill and knowledge to be a professional mechanical rotating engineer.

Malcolm Osenton has more than 30 years of experience in maintenance, reliability & engineering management. He is currently the Director of Reliability for Mosaic’s phosphate business unit, responsible for asset reliability improvements across 10 facilities. In his career, he has held leadership positions while working in the pulp & paper industry for 15 years, consulting engineering for 3 years and the last 14 years in the fertilizer Industry. Malcolm is a graduate of the University of South Alabama with a degree in Civil Engineering. He is a Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional and a Certified Reliability Leader.

The Mobius Institute Board of Certification (MIBoC) is ISO/IEC 17024 and ISO 18436-1 accredited, providing vibration analysts certification according to ISO 18436-1 and ISO 18436-2. MIBoC is an impartial and independent entity that is directed by scheme and technical committees to ensure that its certification meets or exceeds the requirements defined by the applicable International Organization for Standardization, ISO 18436 standards.

For vibration analysts who have completed their training at the ISO Category I, II, III or IV level with an approved training provider and meet prior certification and experience requirements, MIBoC will conduct ISO certification examinations at IMVAC. Prior registration with Mobius Institute is required at least 10 days in advance.

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