Root Cause Bearing Failure Analysis Training

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
30 Nov 2025 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia $ 4,500 Register

Root Cause Bearing Failure Analysis Training

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)

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