Making Sense of Test Data

As a vibration test engineer, a “test” may signify field data acquisition, design failure mode and effect analysis (DFMEA), a reliability test on a shaker in the lab, or some other setup for measuring data. A vibration test can produce files of data that may have you asking: now what? This course offers guidance on vibration test data: why engineers measure data, what to do with it after testing, and how to produce a good vibration test profile.

In this course, you will learn

• Data needed to build a good vibration test profile
• Objectives of vibration data analysis
• Starting points for analyzing random vibration data
• How to correlate test data to standards and field data
• Information to ask third-party laboratories
• Steps to take after vibration testing