Root Cause Bearing Failure Analysis Training
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | ||
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Root Cause Bearing Failure Analysis Training | 30 Nov 2025 | 04 Dec 2025 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | $ 4,500 | Register |

Root Cause Bearing Failure Analysis Training
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Root Cause Bearing Failure Analysis Training | 30 Nov 2025 | 04 Dec 2025 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | $ 4,500 |
Introduction
Turbo-machinery and rotating machinery equipment constitute a major part of many industrial plants. Premature chronic bearings failures for these machines usually are not investigated using root cause analysis (RCA) and it would be enough replacing them. What is really disappointing is that these machines break down could be prevented because they show many early symptoms (vibration signatures) before they are totally or partially fails. Basic root cause failure analysis for the bearings is intended to provide facility personnel the required skills and knowledge to eliminate problems and chronic failures that they experience every day on the job.
Specifically, this in-house workshop training deals with scientific and cost-effective problem-solving techniques that may be used to solve chronic bearings problems.
Objectives
- To familiarize participants with problem definition, generating solutions, enforce solution implementation and evaluate situations
- To familiarize and illustrate the theory of root cause failure analysis and its usage for solving chronic problems with bearings
- To illustrate how to analyze failed bearings (noisy, heat, vibration, etc.) and their components
- To learn about bearing support of loads and mounting
- To know the causes of bearing failures and ways to prevent them
- To highlight the need for lubrication and its role in bearing failures
- To gain more knowledge about bearings predictive maintenance techniques
- To illustrate bearings vibration measurement and analysis to health monitor machine conditions using the vibration signatures
- To improve the ability of the participants to maintenance and troubleshoot of bearings via industrial case studies
Training Methodology
This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations.
Who Should Attend?
This course will benefit mechanical, rotating equipment and reliability engineers, maintenance, machine repair, technicians and managers responsible for dealing with rolling bearings performance and reliability. Applications of this root cause failure analysis for bearings are widely open, including a diversity of machines such as pumps, compressors, fans, blowers, engines, steam turbines, gas turbines, and electric motors, etc.
The course is of interest to those working on power plants, pumping stations, gas boosting stations, desalination plants, oil rigs, chemical industry, petrochemical industry, off-shore structures and all other industries using the previous machines.
Course Outline
- The theory and function of a bearing while supporting loads
- Bearings technology and types
- Mounting damages
- Operating environment and its effects on the bearing components
- Maintenance practices and their effect on the bearing (improper installations)
- Lubrication: marginal and excessive
- Bearings reactions to contamination, moisture, abrasive, etc.
- Vibration/impact damages (sources, identification, and solutions)
- Causes of bearing failures
- Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills and generation of solutions
- Root cause failure analysis technique illustrated
- Failure classifications
- Bearings collected data organization and analysis: sequence diagrams, why-why, how-how, fishbone and fault tree analysis
- How to analyze a failed bearing
- Applications: pumps, gearboxes, motors, fans, extruders, compressors etc... See and inspect sample photos of bearings that have failed - identify, and interpret actual bearing failures
- Vibration signatures analysis for pining bearings failures
- Case studies: compressor journal bearing failure (participant will practice a complete drill on bearings root cause failure analysis)