Does certification actually help me to diagnose tough machine faults?
When you read the course descriptions required for certification, both by ISO and ASNT, they cover the theory, and they cover the standard fault conditions, but they do not provide any way to teach/challenge the student with real world situations, or explain the field test procedures required to verify some of the fault conditions. And there is certainly no way to test your ability to actually solve machine faults as part of the certification process. The exams are all multiple choice questions with simplified spectra to review. Unfortunately, conventional training and examination can be a better measure of a persons ability to remember facts and figures, not their ability to be a vibration analyst. So, we have created iLearnProblemSolving. This program combines the data from real case histories (and simpler data for the beginner) with a challenge mode that requires the budding analyst to make tough decisions about the field-tests to perform, and the corrective action to recommend. The
