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MIDDLE EAST Dubai, UAE | Hyatt Regency Dubai

JUNE 6-8, 2017

EUROPE Antwerp, BE | Crowne Plaza Antwerp

NOVEMBER 6-8, 2017

USA Orlando, FL | B Resort & Spa

SEPTEMBER 5-7, 2017

AUSTRALIA Gold Coast, QLD | Novotel Surfers Paradise

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WHERE:Antwerp, Belgium Crowne Plaza Antwerp

WHEN:June 6-8, 2017

WHO:Vibration Analysts, Condition Monitoring Professionals, Program Managers, Overall Industry Professionals

WHAT ATTENDEES GET:+ 4 keynote presentations by

leading industry experts

+ Your choice of half or full day workshops

+ 3 networking sessions

+ Entrance to the exhibition hall

+ Access to all recorded conference presentations

IMVAC Europe is designed specifically for vibration analysts and condition monitoring professionals. From workshops, learning sessions and case studies to the latest technologies featured in the expo, the conference provides practical learning in the important aspects of industrial vibration analysis, the complementary condition monitoring technologies, and the reliability improvement fields of precision alignment, balancing, and lubrication.

It is our aim to help you form new relationships with your fellow reliability improvement practitioners, and provide you with actionable new skills and knowledge that you can take back to the plant to help you deliver even greater value. I look forward to seeing everyone at IMVAC Europe in Antwerp, Belgium.

See you there! - Jason Tranter

THE EUROPE EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL MACHINE VIBRATION ANALYSIS CONFERENCE (IMVAC EUROPE) IS BEING HELD JUNE 6-8, 2017 IN ANTWERP, BELGIUM.

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+ Improve diagnostic knowledge and skills

+ Build relationships with peers who face the same challenges

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PRE-CONFERENCE MONDAY, 5 JUNE

13:00 – 17:00 Registration

DAY 1 TUESDAY, 6 JUNE

7:00 – 8:00 Morning Coffee and Tea

8:00 – 9:15 Welcome Introduction by Jason Tranter, Founder, Mobius Institute and IMVAC

Premier Sponsor Introductions

Keynote Presentation - Challenges for Maintenance in a Changing World by Herman Baets

9:15 – 9:30 Welcome Coffee and Tea

16:30 – 18:00 Welcome Networking Session food and drinks in Exhibition

DAY 2 WEDNESDAY, 7 JUNE

7:00 – 8:00 Welcome Coffee and Tea

8:00 – 8:30 Introduction to Conference and Exhibitors

8:30 – 9:15 Keynote Presentation - Standard Work - The Key to Excellence and Continuous Improvement by John Schultz

9:15 – 9:45 Morning Coffee and Tea Break in Exhibition

A N T W E R PC O N F E R E N C E A G E N D A

S T R E A M 1 S T R E A M 2 S T R E A M 3

9:30 – 12:30 Practical vibration analysis workshop Part 1 - Scott Dow

Time signal analysis of ultrasound signals - Tom Murphy

Detecting and preventing rolling element bearing faults - Jason Tranter

12:30 – 13:30 L U N C H

13:30 – 16:30 Practical vibration analysis workshop Part 2 - Scott Dow

Bearing inspection with ultrasound - Peter Boon

An animated introduction to fluid-film bearing vibration analysis - Jason Tranter

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DAY 2 (CONTINUED) WEDNESDAY, 7 JUNE

S T R E A M 1 S T R E A M 2 S T R E A M 3 S T R E A M 4

9:45 – 10:30 Case Study: Pump Vibration Improvement through RotorDynamics Analysis (RDA) - Mohd Dasuki Yusoff

Test your skills: Be challenged through a case study presenta-tion where you; the audience, decide what to do next - Scott Dow

Case Study: Condition Monitoring & RCA: A road map to operational excellence - Muhammad Asadullah

(20 min.) The felt roll bearings - how to identify loose inner ring’s fit on a roll journal - Pavel Jakobson

(20 min.) Failure detection on a bearing from an alternator with envelope technique - João Duarte dos Santos

10:45 – 11:30 Case Study: Added value of permanent vibration monitoring for turbomachinery - Sébastien Grégoire

HD Technology a new era in condition monitoring - Tim Sundstrom

(20 min.) Case Study: Bridge To Better Condition Based Maintenance - Jos Sas

Machinery health diagnostics - An insight to condition monitoring - Daniyal Kaleem(20 min.) Case

Study: Predictive Maintenance and Vibration CM in a paper plant: SUPREME project - Sophie Sieg-Zieba

11:45 – 12:30 (20 min.) Case Study: Motion Amplifica-tion: A revolution in vibration and structure monitoring - Nicolas Bleret

High Frequency vibration analysis using the PeakVue technology - Anders Hultman

High return motor management - Mark Gurney

Condition monitoring on rotating machines illustrated by an example of azimuth thruster - Harald Reiners

(20 min.) Case Study: History of dealing high vibration on NOx gas compressor during startup with a new rotor - Mohsin Murtaza

12:30 – 13:30 L U N C H I N E X H I B I T I O N

13:30 – 14:15 Case Study: High Gearbox Vibration Due to Fluid Induced Instabilities - Majid Sattar and Ahsan Jamal Cheema

(90 min.) A quick in-troduction to the other condition monitoring technologies - Jason Tranter

Case Study: The Multi-Technology Approach to CBM - Ettore Di Pasquale

Case Study: How to increase your MTBF through wireless vibration monitoring? - Johan Van Puyenbroeck

14:15 – 14:45 Afternoon Coffee & Tea Break in Exhibition

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DAY 2 (CONTINUED) WEDNESDAY, 7 JUNE

S T R E A M 1 S T R E A M 2 S T R E A M 3 S T R E A M 4

14:45 – 15:30 Recent advances in vibration based bearing condition monitoring - Agusmian Ompusunggu

(90 min.) cont’d. A quick introduction to the other condition monitoring technolo-gies - Jason Tranter

(20 min.) Case Study: Effect of stiffness change on a critical steam turbine - Wesam Alharbi

Quality Alignment depends on Measurement Quality - Dragutin Lacko

(20 min.) Case Study: Intermittent Vibration Upsets on a Critical Steam Turbine - Wesam Alharbi

15:45 – 16:30 Case Study: Wind Turbine Gearbox Shafting Torsional Vibration Analysis - Max Ma

Assessing the fatigue life of components mounted on rotating machinery - Frédéric Kihm and Marco Bonato

Case Study: Predictive analysis to a LDPE extruder gearbox failure – Reverse analysis - Joao Costa

High definition gearbox monitoring - Tim Sundstrom

16:30 – 17:30 Reception Food and Drinks in Exhibition

18:00 – 20:30 Evening Dinner

DAY 3 THURSDAY, 8 JUNE

7:00 – 8:00 Welcome Coffee and Tea

8:00 – 8:45 Keynote Presentation #1 - Fault Detection, Root Cause Analysis and Documenting your VA program by Dean Whittle

9:00 – 9:45 Keynote Presentation #2 - Making Vibration Analysis Count by Jason Tranter

9:45 – 10:15 Coffee and Tea Break in Exhibition

S T R E A M 1 S T R E A M 2 S T R E A M 3 S T R E A M 4

10:15 – 11:00 (90 min) Vibration troubleshooting - case studies for different fault types - Ninoslav Zuber

VFDs: The Vibration Analyst’s Worst Nightmare - Scott Dow

Why care about torsional vibrations - Frits Petit

Case Study: Vibration Survey - Colin Armstrong

11:15 – 12:00 (90 min) cont’d. Vibration trouble-shooting - case studies for different fault types - Ninoslav Zuber

Acoustic Vibration Monitoring - Tom Murphy

(20 min.) Case Study: Vibration Analysis of Bearing Faults in RCPH-2 Pumps - Rao Vamsidhar

Monitoring system - Learn as much as possible, do what you know - Hector Palacio

(20 min.) Case Study: Single shot balancing saves time and power - Rao Vamsidha

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DAY 3 (CONTINUED) THURSDAY, 8 JUNE

12:00 – 13:00 L U N C H I N E X H I B I T I O N

13:00 – 13:45 Slow speed vibration monitoring - Stijn Vermeersch and Stijn Droessaert

(20 min.) Case Study: Torsional resonance on a centrifugal blower - Kris Deckers

Rotor balancing and influence coefficient analysis - Stanley Bognatz

Case Study: Combining advanced vibration analysis techniques with Finite Element Analysis - Gert van Rijswick

(20 min.) Case Study: How using a different kind of sensor can give a new dimension to your Vibration Analysis - Geoff Walker

14:00 – 14:45 (90 min.) Test your skills- Interactive diagnostic challenge session - Dean Whittle

(20 min.) Case Study: Online monitoring could be useful to see variable conditions and do root cause analysis - Jean-Luc Pierrieau

Case Study: Vibration Analysis of Alignment Problems regarding closed coupled Generator Sets - Marc Böhning

How vibration analysts can take advantages of modern expert systems? - Johann Loesl

(20 min.) Case Study: Novel Evaluation of Resonance Risk Margin (RRM) Using Impact Testing of Compressor Vanes - Nabil Rashwan and Majed Saimaldahr

14:45 – 15:00 Afternoon Coffee & Tea Break in Foyer

15:00 - 15:45 (90 min.) cont’d. Test your skills- Interactive diagnostic challenge session - Dean Whittle

Case Study: An investigation into the source of vibration on the structure of a 20 MW Turbo Alternator - John Sykes

Effect of load change on the vibration spectra and timewave form of planetary gears - Ibrahim H Caglayan, Gungor Aydin

(20 min.) Fault Detection under Medium and Low Rotational Speed - Carina Freitas

(20 min.) Case Study: Blade Vibration Monitoring - Rik Geerdink

15:45 – 17:15 Interactive Forum, Closing and Giveaways

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“Thank you for providing such a wonderful conference! I really couldn’t imagine any way it could have been better. Great Job!

“IMVAC was a great conference, well organized with plenty of good topics to choose from.

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