UCAT-I CANDIDATE PROFILE
This course is intended for the ultrasound analyst and technician analyst who will:
- Collect ultrasound data to detect fault conditions in rotating machinery, electrical equipment, and a host of other equipment, including valves, hydraulics, steam traps, and more.
- Detect leaks in compressed air and steam systems.
- Grease lubricate bearings with precision.
- Use the training and certification as the start of a new and rewarding career as an ultrasound technician.
Duration
30 hours, typically over four days
Compliance
- Training and certification: ISO 18436-8
- Certification: ISO 18436-1, ISO/IEC 17024
- Training: ISO 18436-3
Exam
- 2 hours
- 60 multiple-choice questions
- 70% passing grade
- Can be taken online or in-person at the course
Certification requirements
- Training course completed
- 6-months of work experience, verified by an independent person
- Pass a hearing test
- Valid for 5 years
What will you gain from taking this course?
There are so many benefits to taking this course. You will learn:
- About condition monitoring, including a summary of the most common technologies
- About reliability improvement
- How ultrasound testing and ultrasound-assisted lubrication plays a key role in reliability improvement
- About the fundamentals of sound: frequency, amplitude, wavelength, pitch, and period
- How it is measured and quantified: dB, RMS, peak, kurtosis, and crest factor
- How sound behaves: speed of sound, reflection, refraction, and transmission
- How ultrasound is detected in industrial settings
- How to take dependable, repeatable, high-quality readings
- About listening to ultrasound, and capturing and interpreting waveforms and spectra
- About how to set up software systems, including the naming of assets
- About impacts, friction, turbulence, cavitation, arcing, tracking, corona, and partial discharge
- How it can be used to detect faults in bearings, electrical systems, steam traps, valves, hydraulic equipment, pumps, compressors, and other equipment
- About how hydraulics, electrical systems, steam systems, compressors, bearings, pumps, valves, steam traps, and other components work – all with vivid, realistic 3D animations
- How to correctly lubricate bearings: not too much, not too little
- How to collect data and perform tests safely
- How to generate
reports that will provide people with the information they really need
Pre-study
- Access
to the Learning Zone upon registration and payment. For online distance
learning, access to the learning platform for four months from registration and
payment
- Complete set of videos covering every topic
Post-study
- Continue to access the Learning Zone 4 months after the course completion or upgrade for a lifetime with Lifelong Learning (LLL)
- Continue learning for free on WWW.MOBIUSCONNECT.COM with online forums, webinars, tutorials, etc.
TOPICS COVERED - CATEGORY II
Maintenance practices
- Reactive, preventive, condition-based, proactive
- How to decide between them
Condition monitoring
- Why it works
- Vibration, infrared, oil analysis, wear particle analysis, and electric motor testing
- Detecting faults, root causes, and quality control
- Acceptance testing
Principles of sound
- What is sound, sound waves, and sine waves
- Frequency, pitch, period, wavelength
- Acoustic impedance, reflection, and transmission with different media (materials)
- The inverse distance rule
The application of ultrasound
- Friction, turbulence, impacting, arcing, tracking, corona
Ultrasound measurement
- Heterodyning
- The decibel dB scale
- Metrics: RMS, Peak, crest factor, and Kurtosis
- Listening versus measuring
- Severity determination
Collecting test data
- Safety precautions
- Sensor types: contact vs non-contact, magnets, horns, parabolic dishes
- Collecting good data
- Sensitivity validation
- Repeatability
- Sensor positioning
- Shielding and competing ultrasound sources
- Waveforms and spectra
Data storage and management
- Setting up a good database
- ISO 14224 as a guide
Leak detection
- Steam systems
- Compressed air systems and gas
- Pressurized systems and systems under vacuum
- Leak detection
- Tightness testing
Electrical testing
- Safety precautions
- Corona, arcing, tracking
- Partial discharge
Lubrication
- Concerns with traditional methods
- On-condition lubrication
- Avoiding over-greasing or under-greasing
Testing different assets types
- Valves, steam traps, bearings (low speed and high speed), compressors, pumps, hydraulic systems
- A detailed explanation of all the above equipment and their failure modes
Report generation
- Providing actionable information
Case studies - Many case studies are presented throughout the course