Build a concise maintenance procedure for rotor balancing programmes that colleagues can follow without further explanation.
Designing Industrial Rotor Balancing Programmes to Reduce Vibration
A senior-level treatment of rotor balancing programmes, focused on what changes outcomes.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Reactive work on rotor balancing programmes costs several times what the same job costs when planned. Where maintenance history on the practice within engineering and maintenance work is incomplete, every decision becomes a guess. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about this part of engineering and maintenance work under scrutiny. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better rotor balancing programmes is rarely technical. The programme converts the engineering and maintenance work discipline from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. Participants who influence this aspect of engineering and maintenance work without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of rotor balancing programmes and supervised application. Most organisations already have a policy on the practice within engineering and maintenance work; far fewer can show it working. The programme ends where implementation begins, with this part of engineering and maintenance work broken into steps someone can start on Monday.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Maintain drawings and documentation for rotor balancing programmes after modification.
Communicate the purpose of rotor balancing programmes to those who have to comply with it.
Apply safe isolation, permit and lockout controls to work on rotor balancing programmes.
Select the maintenance strategy for rotor balancing programmes — run to failure, preventive, or condition-based — on evidence.
Sequence improvements to rotor balancing programmes so that each step makes the next one easier.
Plan the turnaround scope covering rotor balancing programmes realistically.
Who Should Attend
Project engineers commissioning assets involved in rotor balancing programmes.
Business partners who must understand rotor balancing programmes well enough to challenge it.
Inspection and integrity engineers assessing rotor balancing programmes.
Mechanical, electrical and instrumentation technicians working on rotor balancing programmes.
Plant and facility managers accountable for availability of rotor balancing programmes.
Team leaders and supervisors who put rotor balancing programmes into practice day to day.
Course Modules
Rotor balancing programmes: safe isolation and permit control
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Inspection intervals for rotor balancing programmes that are not just habit
- Build the internal briefing that explains rotor balancing programmes to those affected.
- Assign a criticality rating to rotor balancing programmes that drives work order priority.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in rotor balancing programmes.
- Estimate the resource rotor balancing programmes requires to run as designed.
Session 2Choosing a maintenance strategy for rotor balancing programmes on evidence
- Define acceptance criteria for completed work on rotor balancing programmes.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for rotor balancing programmes.
- Set maintenance indicators for rotor balancing programmes that reward planning rather than heroics.
- Identify single points of dependency in rotor balancing programmes and reduce them.
Rotor balancing programmes: condition monitoring and warning time
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping rotor balancing programmes alive after the initial push
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of rotor balancing programmes current.
- Update drawings and documentation after every modification to rotor balancing programmes.
- Confirm that reporting on rotor balancing programmes reaches the people who can act.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates rotor balancing programmes is under control.
Session 2Comparing rotor balancing programmes with recognised practice
- Remove steps in rotor balancing programmes that add effort without adding assurance.
- List the credible failure modes of rotor balancing programmes and the consequence of each.
- Review the last twelve months of maintenance history for rotor balancing programmes.
- Rank the weaknesses in rotor balancing programmes by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Rotor balancing programmes: planning, scheduling and downtime reduction
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What condition data on rotor balancing programmes is telling you early
- Calculate the ratio of planned to reactive work on rotor balancing programmes.
- Build the life cycle cost model supporting repair or replace on rotor balancing programmes.
- Anticipate the objections rotor balancing programmes will raise and prepare the answers.
- Record who is competent to work on rotor balancing programmes and when requalification is due.
Session 2Controlling turnaround scope on rotor balancing programmes
- Define acceptance criteria for rotor balancing programmes in advance.
- Investigate repeat failures on rotor balancing programmes to root cause, not to component.
- Estimate the true cost of one hour of unplanned downtime on rotor balancing programmes.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when rotor balancing programmes underperforms.
Rotor balancing programmes: history, documentation and competence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The paperwork for rotor balancing programmes that is actually needed
- Reduce the variation in how rotor balancing programmes is carried out between teams.
- Assess energy loss attributable to the condition of rotor balancing programmes.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about rotor balancing programmes.
- Confirm lubrication, alignment and balance standards applied to rotor balancing programmes.
Session 2Spares for rotor balancing programmes: lead time against consequence
- Record what was learned when rotor balancing programmes did not go as planned.
- Set inspection intervals for rotor balancing programmes from condition data where it exists.
- Build the competence framework that supports rotor balancing programmes.
- Confirm isolation and permit requirements before any work on rotor balancing programmes.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Complete your registration
We will contact you within one business day to confirm.