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2009 National Technical Training Symposium
(The 33rd Annual Meeting - Vibration Institute)

June 23-26, 2009
Hilton Harrisburg
One North Second Street
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania  17101
Telephone:  717/233-6000 or 800/445-8667
rate: $124 s/d

Registration Fees:

Full Meeting (3 days) - $875.
Speaker/Chapter Officer (3 days) - $525.
One Day (Tuesday/June 23) - $275./$250 for meeting registrants
Basic Machinery Vibrations (4 day course) - $1,150.

Please be advised that if you arrive at the NTTS, BMV course or certification examination without prior registration, payment must be made in full or you will not be admitted.

The Vibration Institute will conduct its 2009 National Technical Training Symposium (33rd Annual Meeting) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from June 23 through June 26 at Hilton Harrisburg. The purpose of the Symposium is to provide specific training in practical vibration technology. 

Program

Tuesday, June 23


The 2009 National Technical Training Symposium empathizes using basic and advanced techniques to achieve an outstanding predictive maintenance program.  Identification, analysis, and correction techniques including balancing and alignment are topics of interest.  Techniques used in vibration analysis, basic rotor dynamics, operating deflection shapes, time waveform analysis, and practical and advanced signal analysis are stressed.

Vendors will exhibit equipment for conducting condition-based monitoring using vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, and ultrasound.  The exhibits provide registrants an overview of the technology available for the effective operation of a predictive maintenance program.



Four-Day Course:

Basic Machinery Vibrations (BMV) - June 23-26, 2009

Registrants for BMV are welcome at the Symposium lunches, exhibits, the social hour, and sessions.  Content of the BMV course includes basic vibration analysis, data collection, fault analysis, condition evaluation, machine testing, and basic balancing.  Participants receive the book, Basic Machinery Vibrations, and a workbook with examples of solutions to selected questions as well as more than 100 problems for participants to solve.  The BMV course contains, at a minimum, the required material for the Category II examination for Vibration Analyst that will be given on Saturday.

One-Day Courses:

Time Waveform Analysis
Instructor: Nelson L. Baxter

This one-day training session on time waveform analysis features instruction on analyzing time waveforms to diagnose machines and gain information on their condition.  Obtaining and analyzing spectra to maximize the use of field data are reviewed.  The goal of the lectures is to provide understanding of the procedures involved in setting up and analyzing vibration data.

Measurement and Analysis of Rotor Vibrations
Instructors: Malcolm E. Leader, William T. Pryor, and Bruce Weathersby

Topics included in this one-day training session on the measurement and analysis of rotor vibration are the use of non-contacting displacement probes, transient analysis, orbital waveforms, and spectral analysis of rotor data.  National and International shaft vibration standards are summarized.  Unusual rotor-dynamic case histories are described.

  • Proximity Probes 101: the basics of protecting rotating equipment with non-contacting proximity probes
  • An introduction to steady-state data analysis for sleeve-bearing machines
  • Shaft vibration standards
  • Rotor-dynamics case histories


Wednesday, June 24

Keynote Address:

The Development of Powered Machinery
Neville F. Rieger, Ph.D.

Invited Speakers:

Operating Deflection Shapes
Robert J. Sayer, P.E.

Isolation Three Ways
Frederick C. Nelson

Induction Motor Case Histories: A Focus on Structurally-Related Phenomena
Bryan Evans
 

Panel Session:

Motor Testing


Thursday, June 25

Invited Speakers:

Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis
Sid Booksh

Time-Transient Analysis
Howard A. Gaberson

Time-Transient Analysis Techniques
Malcolm E. Leader

Understanding Amplitude and Phase in Rotating Machinery
Edgar J. Gunter

Planetary Gearbox Analysis
Ken Singleton

High-Frequency Bearing Analysis Techniques
James C. Robinson

Wireless Panel Session
Dave Corelli


Friday, June 26


Invited Speakers:

Turbine Foundation Analysis
William Branca

Computer Spectrum Analysis
René Archambault

Other Topics:

Asset Management
Machine Reliability Considerations
 

Certification Examination: Balancing Category I
 

Saturday, June 27

Certification Examinations

Category I Exam - 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Category II Exam - 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Category  III Exam - 8:00 AM - 12:00 NOON
Category IV Exam - 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Alignment Examination

Certification examinations for Vibration Analyst in all Categories are scheduled for Saturday, June 27.  An examination for Balancing of Rotating Machinery, Category I will be given on Friday, June 26.  Qualifications for examination at the four categories are summarized below:

Category I: capability to carry out simple machinery vibration measurements involving single-channel condition monitoring and diagnosis.

Category II:  basic knowledge of machinery vibration, capability to carry out routing data collection and periodic monitoring, and ability to perform basic fault diagnosis and condition evaluation.

Category III:  certification in Category II; capability to carry out fault diagnosis, condition evaluation, and acceptance testing; ability to set up periodic monitoring programs and perform minor correction actions.

Category IV: certification in Category III; capability to solve chronic mechanical problems, conduct advanced fault and condition analysis, and perform vibration control procedures.
 

Click here to see the Preliminary Program for the 33rd Annual Meeting (will be posted as soon as it is available)


Hotel and Registration Information:

Hilton Harrisburg
One North Second Street
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101
Telephone: 717/233-6000 or 800/445-8667

The Vibration Institute has reserved rooms at Hilton Harrisburg ($124.s/d). Rooms at these rates will be held for the Institute until May 22.  Please secure your reservation early.  Inform Hilton Harrisburg that you are attending the Vibration Institute's 2009 Symposium when you make your reservation.

Please register for the Symposium in advance. Registrants will receive confirmation of registration by mail from the Institute. The $875. fee covers the costs of all sessions, beverage breaks, a Proceedings, all meeting luncheons, and Institute membership for 2009.

If you are offering a paper for the Symposium, please return the Registration Form with your title and an abstract prior to February 1, 2009. Papers are due by April 15, 2009.  Papers received after that date will not be published in the Proceedings.  Speakers must register for the Symposium. 

Make checks payable to the Vibration Institute.  Cancellation will be honored, and full fee refunded, provided written notification is received at the Institute office not later than one week prior to the opening date of the Symposium.  A $200. fee will be charged for later cancellation.

Click here to Register Online for the 33rd Annual Meeting
(2009 registration form will be posted shortly)