
Training
VCAT-I Junior Vibration Analyst

Course Information
Learn to be an effective vibration technician—capable of collecting quality data,
and performing basic analysis and data validation—with advanced 3D animations
and interactive simulations that make everything easy to understand.
4X Diagnostics is a certified North America training instructor for Mobius Institute
Course Outline
4 Day Course
- Condition monitoring, including a summary of
 the most common technologies
- Reliability improvement
- How vibration analysis plays a key role in reliability
 improvement
- How machines work via the supplementary selfstudy “equipment knowledge” section of the manual
- Fundamentals of vibration: waveforms,
 spectra, and simple metrics (overall levels, RMS, peak,
 peak to peak, and crest factor)
- How to take dependable, repeatable, high-quality
 vibration readings
- Vibration sensors, and how and where to mount
 them
- Basics of the analysis process, primarily with
 vibration spectra
- Basics of the key analyzer settings: fmax,
 resolution, and averaging
- Basics of setting alarm limits
- Common “failure modes” of machines and
 how to detect them, including rolling element bearing
 faults, unbalance, misalignment, looseness, and
 resonance
