Electrical Maintenance Technician Cross-Training Program

This on site two week course is an intensive, highly specialized training program designed to bring experienced plant operators into your electrical department with a very high level of practical skills. For staff planning it can either be taught in back to back weeks or in separated weeks.

This course has been used extensively by some of the world's largest and most successful companies. Their technicians maintain high speed, computerized product lines that incorporate variable speed AC and DC drives, complex electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics and mechanical systems within world class technology. Your technicians will learn how to safely, properly and effectively operate and troubleshoot your electrical systems. You will experience remarkable ROI as your graduates will be successfully self-sufficient with less than three months of on job training.

It was developed in 1981 by very experienced, top calibre industrial electrical instructors and is regularly updated as technology changes. It is a unique combination of the best of electrical apprenticeship training, decades of specialized maintenance and troubleshooting knowledge, and years of experience teaching maintenance and troubleshooting skills to industrial electrical and non-electrical workers.

This distilled wisdom is passed on to the students as they complete hands on skills labs where they test and troubleshoot equipment and circuits loaded with specially designed faults. This course wastes little time with unnecessary theory but focuses instead on the "must knows" of testing and troubleshooting. 80% of student time is spent on realistic hands on projects teaching them how to troubleshoot circuits and systems.

Your plant schematics and prints are integrated into the curriculum and used for troubleshooting exercises. This training is conducted in our customized Mobile Motor Control Training Lab #3, a full size highway trailer customized especially for this training. All training is conducted in the lab and at your facility.

Your Graduates Will Be Able To:

Explain the operation of circuits and systems

Read and interpret single line, AC and DC elementary, schematic, wiring, and ladder diagrams

Test and troubleshoot circuits using voltmeters, ammeters, ohmmeters, meggers, and the appropriate prints

Employ logical, sequential troubleshooting methods, analytical and critical thinking, and deductive reasoning techniques

Explain the application of NFPA 70E and CSA Z462 to prevent arc flash explosions and electrocutions

Employ safe work procedures and effectively use personal protective equipment

Follow fundamental code rules

Explain the principles of grounding and bonding

Explain the principles of system and circuit protection

Troubleshoot DC and AC circuits to 600 volts

Troubleshoot relay control circuits

Troubleshoot motor control circuits

Troubleshoot process control circuits

Adjust, start up and control a VFD

Create basic PLC programs, evaluate complex programs and control a VFD

Perform their work with a commitment to quality and craftsmanship

Who should attend: Millwrights, mechanics, and other trades who's jobs require a certain amount of cross training in industrial electrical systems. This also includes workers who may need simply to communicate effectively with electrical workers.

Unfortunately, this course does not currently have any upcoming dates.
Yet, if you're interested in it, please chat with our sales team
or fill out a quote request so we can get one scheduled in your area.