Machinery Fault Diagnosis and Condition Monitoring

Maintenance, mechanical and reliability engineers, and condition monitoring technicians who already collect data on a route and want to stop handing the interpretation to somebody else. It assumes you have seen a spectrum before.

No. Every module can be studied on a phone or a laptop, and the practice tasks are done with a nameplate, a bearing data sheet and a pen. If your employer has a data collector, run the practice tasks on a real machine and the course is worth several times more.

Running speed, mm/s, and what a spectrum is. If those are new, do a basic vibration or maintenance course first. This one starts at the analyser setup and goes through to bearing damage and reporting.

No. Category certification under ISO 18436-2 is issued by training and examination bodies that run their own courses and their own exams, and EDWartens is not one of them and is not affiliated with any of them. Treat this course as preparation and background reading. What EDWartens issues is its own Certificate of Completion, and it is described as nothing more than that.

No. The video lessons in this course are vibration based. Oil and wear debris analysis, thermography, ultrasound and motor current signature analysis are named in the notes as the other legs of a condition monitoring programme, but they are not taught here.

Yes. Every module, every practice task and every assessment. You create an account so that your progress is saved and the assessments can be marked. The certificate is the only paid item, and only if you want one.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you have finished every module and passed the final at 60 per cent, with a verification code anyone can check. It is not a vendor credential and is never described as one.

Mobius Institute, on their own YouTube channel, and they are credited at the foot of this page. EDWartens did not make the videos, does not host or sell them, and is not affiliated with Mobius Institute. What EDWartens wrote is the study plan, the notes, the practice tasks and the assessments.

Yes. Learning costs ₹0 in India: every module, the written notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment, with no card and no trial period. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, ₹999 including GST for this advanced course, paid in rupees through Razorpay, and only if you want it after passing the final assessment.