Vibration Diagnostic Guide

This guide is designed to introduce machinery maintenance workers to condition monitoring analysis methods used for detecting and analyzing machine component failures.

This document was created by field experienced SKF application engineers using measurements obtained with SKF Condition Monitoring equipment. This guide is a “living document” and will continuously grow as application and experience information becomes available.

It is important to note that this guide is not intended to make the reader an analysis expert. It merely informs the reader about “typical” methods of analysis and how machinery problems “typically” show themselves when using these methods of analysis. It is intended to lay the foundation for understanding machinery analysis concepts and to show the reader what is needed to perform an actual analysis on specific machinery.