Precision Maintenance Skills Training Options

A properly aligned, balanced, and lubricated machine, with correctly tightened fasteners, will deliver maximum reliability. We can help you achieve the skills, awareness, desire, and procedures to ensure the precision becomes standard practice.

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Master the skills and systems that improve reliability

The reliability of rotating machinery begins with precision maintenance skills. Precision lubrication, shaft alignment, and rotor balancing ensure the machine operates smoothly with minimal rotating forces and friction. The shafts, bearings, gears, seals, impellers, and all other components will achieve their design lifetime when they are not subjected to excess rotating forces.

There are three key ingredients:

  • You must have a reliability strategy, including planning and scheduling, to ensure the precision maintenance tasks are performed correctly. Our Asset Reliability Transformation® [ART] strategy will help you put the systems in place, and our Asset Reliability Practitioner® [ARP] training will educate you to execute the strategy correctly.
  • You must have people who are motivated to contribute to the strategy and perform the tasks correctly. No amount of technical training and specialist skills can overcome apathy. Everyone must be on the same wavelength, and iLearnReliability™ will educate, motivate, and align the workforce.
  • You must have skilled maintenance technicians who know what to do and why to do it.

We have five ways to gain the necessary skills:

The beauty of our courses and e-learning products is that they combine practical skills with advanced training techniques. Our 3D animations and software simulators make it extremely easy for everyone to understand exactly what they should do, and why they should do it.

Beware of “easy to use” products

In the modern era, shaft alignment tools, rotor balancing systems, and other products have become very graphical and much easier to use. The problem is, the fact that they seem easier to use can fool people into believing training is unnecessary. “Just follow the steps, you’ll be right” is what is frequently said, and if everything goes smoothly, you may achieve good results.

But how often do things go smoothly?  

A lot of people who use these tools are intimidated by the high-tech user-interface. And many people don’t truly understand what they are doing, so the moment the task becomes a little challenging, they lose their way. The simplest thing to do is to simply wrap up the job and call it done.

And that’s why so many machines suffer premature failures – they were never precision aligned, lubricated, or balanced in the first place.

Our training ensures that the technician knows exactly what’s going on. When they see the measurements change they can visualize in their minds what the machine is doing.

Mobius Institute™ trained technicians achieve precision reliability.

Choose from the links above to begin your journey to precision, or learn more below.

Shaft alignment on-site hands-on course

You can have the best of both worlds. You get the practical hands-on experience with an expert instructor and the 3D animations and simulations of the world-renowned Mobius Institute™ training.

The animations make everything crystal clear – everyone understands how to achieve precision alignment and why it is so important for machine reliability once they take this training.

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iLearnAlignment™ e-learning course

Everyone who will perform shaft alignment should be trained, and re-trained. When people join the crew, they should be trained. And ideally, the supervisors should be trained so they know what “good looks like”.

iLearnAlignment provides the training, and the refresher training so that everyone understands what it takes to achieve precision alignment. iLearnAlignment is interactive el-earning, with highly visual 3D animations.

iLearnAlignment should be your corporate standard so that everyone knows how to perform precision alignment.

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Balancing on-site hands-on course

You can have the best of both worlds. You get the practical hands-on experience with an expert instructor and the 3D animations and simulations of the world-renowned Mobius Institute™ training.

The animations make everything crystal clear – everyone understands how to achieve precision balance, and how to overcome some of the challenges associated with achieving balance to G 1.0 once they have taken this training.

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iLearnBalancing™ e-learning course

Imagine taking training that explains all the fundamentals of the measurements you will take, how to diagnose unbalance, how to select trial weights and determine the type of balance job that will be required, and then how to perform single and two plane balancing, all one step at a time, filled with animations and simulations.

Balancing is important, so you need to get it right. iLearnBalancing will help you become a talented and competent balance technician.

The animations and simulations make everything crystal clear – everyone understands how to achieve precision balance, and how to overcome the challenges associated with achieving balance to G 1.0 once they have taken this training.

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iLearnReliability™: Lubrication, Alignment, Balancing and More

iLearnReliability incorporates iLearnAlignment™ and iLearnBalancing™, but it also provides basic training for those who need to know about precision maintenance but will not actually do the job themselves.

In fact, there is very brief awareness training, training related to the business case, and training for supervisors and engineers. We really do believe in the concept of “Educate everyone”.

iLearnReliability can be used to train a large number of people in your organization, from operators to managers, from technicians to planners, and everyone else. People will learn about alignment, balancing, lubrication, fastening and so much more!

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