Mechanical Training Courses

Delegates who take this 2-day course will learn:

• The state of play in the War for Talent.
• The importance of “know-how” when attracting star performers.
• The rules for managing a Succession Plan.
• How to build a leadership pipeline.
• The advantages and disadvantages of retention.

All industries are highly competitive so in order to compete successfully, 24-hour operations must continuously improve to achieve the highest possible standards at all times.

For a facility to operate safely and efficiently 24/7, it is necessary to apply shift-working best practices. Multiple-shift operation poses a challenge because of the potential for fatigue and disconnects caused by the fact that the personnel are changing every few hours. This can result in a significantly increased risk of incidents and operational problems such as reduced throughput, poor communication and increased levels of waste.

Specific aims and objectives of this course include:

• To address the key activities involved in the safe, effective and timely installation, commissioning start-up and ramp-up of a new equipment, plant or facility.
• How to identify possible costly delays.
• How to deal with problems that will result in prolonged and costly delays.
• How to achieve a successful plant start-up.

Delegates who take this 2-day course will be able to:

• Apply the latest techniques in condition monitoring.
• Understand the analysis and implementation of predictive maintenance strategies and procedures.
• Identify the various maintenance strategies used in condition monitoring and determine the factors, which influence maintenance strategies.
• Discover the various types & causes of machinery failure.
• Heighten in-depth understanding of machinery vibrations Recognize phase & vibration measurements and describe excitation frequencies & mode shapes.
• Characterize data acquisition systems and techniques and determine their importance in vibration analysis,

Delegates who take this 2-day course will:

• Get to create and maintain a comfortable environment within a building.
• Get to design an efficient HVAC system by integrating the five loops of HVAC
• Be able to analyze and calculate cooling load.
• Select the appropriate system for a comfort air quality.

It could be said that maintenance is the final business frontier. All other areas of business have been optimized: financial controls, logistical support, market research etc. have all been optimized and therefore there is little a company can do to improve itself and score a competitive advantage over its opposition. But maintenance has yet to be optimized.

Many companies still regard the maintenance function as a necessary evil. They should rather see it as offering a competitive advantage. If we optimize the maintenance function, we see that putting more money into maintenance at the beginning of the plant lifecycle can result in savings due to increased availability, as well as decreased maintenance expenditure later in the lifecycle.

Some form of safety valve or bursting disc is required by law in all industrialized countries, to protect plant and personnel from the consequences of overpressure in vessels and boilers under pressure. This applies whether the content is a liquid and a gas.

In fact, a safety or pressure relief valve can be considered the most important single safety device on a boiler or pressure vessel. If it fails to function in the manner for which it was intended and an overpressure condition develops, the result could be catastrophic.

Like all mechanical devices, pressure relief valves require periodic maintenance and repair. To properly carry out repairs, it is essential that the work be done by trained personnel under controlled conditions, using proper parts and procedures. Samples of various pressure relieving devices will be demonstrated in class.

Successful implementation of RCM will lead to increase in cost effectiveness, machine uptime, and a greater understanding of the level of risk that the organisation is presently managing. For evaluating your equipment’s condition and effectively determining the maintenance requirements for each piece of equipment in operating context RCM is a must for every engineer, technician and artisan.

This 2-day workshop will explore, dissect and highlight the key elements of Reliability Centred Maintenance. By emphasising the objectives, benefits and importance of RCM the facilitator will enable key learnings and discussion points creating a group environment for learning.

RCM is about establishing the failure modes and failure effects by examining consequences of failure. These steps of proactive and predictive maintenance will ensure that future failures are minimalised.

The importance of setting task frequencies and identifying where the responsibility lies (maintenance and operations) will assist in the evaluation of the validity of different types of proactive maintenance. These steps will be discussed among delegates and facilitator assisting with back-at-work implementation in a proactive and predictive manner. Once the optimal set of tasks and frequencies is determined, the entire infrastructure design can be re-evaluated to ensure that the tasks and frequencies are implemented. That is, manpower levels, workshop facilities, cranage, etc will be re-evaluated. In other words, an entire optimal maintenance strategy can be determined using RCM.

Communication is one of the most important aspects of business life – indeed of all life. Even animals depend for their survival on communication. For anyone aspiring to an engineering or management position, communication skills are vital. In fact it has been shown that the better communicators in the engineering profession are the ones that become engineering managers. As a sub-set of Communication, Technical Report Writing forms an important part of any engineer’s life.

With this in mind, the course offers practical examples on how to structure convincing and lucid reports, which will create the desired attention of all who read them.