Technical Training

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This is a 4½ -day hands-on course on industrial hydraulic components and circuits. Students will learn fundamental fluid power principles, formulas and functional characteristics of hydraulic components. 25% of lab time will be on designing, building and troubleshooting hydraulic circuits. Read more.

• Practical study of pumps, flow valves, pressure valves, directional valves, hydraulic motors, filters, cylinders and accumulators.
• Designing and building hydraulic circuits on system simulators.
• Power units, schematic circuits and troubleshooting tactics.

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This is a 4½ -day course on motion control and electrohydraulics. Students will learn motion profile development, valve control of cylinder motion calculations, feedback system, frequency response analysis and optimal system designs. Read more.

• Motion profile, feedback systems, PID loops
• Pneumatic / Hydraulic proportional pressure systems and applications.
• Electronic driver boards
• Workshop - proportional DCV and control boards.

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This is a 4½ -day course on digital / sequential automation concepts, components and control. Students will learn broad range of automation components, several methods of developing and communicating automation concepts. They will also learn to design, build, operate and debug control circuits in pneumatic logic and relay or PLC ladder logic. 25% lab time.Read more.

• A generic presentation of the construction, uses, and control sensors, actuators, motors, and control hardware used in sequential automation.
  
• The use of ladder logic in the Windows® based PLC programming of a laboratory board using a PLC controlling a number of cylinders with a variety of common sensing techniques.
  
• Similar logic problems solved by designing and building pneumatic control solutions.

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This is a comprehensive 3 day course focusing on the technology of drilling and tapping as well as a study of a variety of machinery components used to construct automated drilling and tapping machines. Read more.

• Technology of drilling & tapping - speeds, feeds and horsepower requirements.
• Major makes of tools include Hypneumat, Desoutter, Gilman, Centreline, Commander and Gy-Roll.