Courses
Mechanical Maintenance
Course #: 5004A-C
Duration: 30 hours (includes 3 tests)
What Students Learn:
Part 1 (5004A). Introduction to Bench Work; Wrenches, Hammers, Pliers, and Screwdrivers; Punches, Twist Drills, Reamers, and Broaches; Saws, Chisels, and Snips; Finishing and Grinding Tools; Files, Scrapers, and Abrasives.
Part 2 (5004B). Threaded Fasteners; Bolts, Screws, and Studs; Thread Systems; Hole Preparation for Threaded Fasteners; Mechanical Fasteners; Rivets, Keys, and Pins; Threading with Hand Tools; Taps: Tap Drills; Tap Wrenches; Removal of Broken Taps; Repairing Damaged Threads.
Part 3 (5004C). Fitting Practice; Tolerance, Allowance, Clearance, and Fit; Babbitting; Hack Saw; Band Saw Machine; Clamping Work for Sawing; Soldering; Soft Solder; Soldering Copper; Sweat Soldering; Brazing; Hand Solders and Fluxes; Torch Brazing; Induction Brazing; Furnace Brazing.
Course #: 2608A-B
Duration: 20 hours (includes 2 tests)
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Part 1 (2608A). Purpose of Testing Physical Properties of Materials; Mechanical Testing Machines; Tension Test; Compression Test.
Part 2 (2608B). Transverse or Beam Test; Shear and Torsion Tests; Hardness Testing, Impact Testing; Miscellaneous Tests for Ductile Materials; Testing of Nonmetals.
Course #: 186036
Duration: 5 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 186037
Duration: 5 hours (includes 1 test)
What Students Learn:
This study unit is designed to introduce the technician to requirements of the international quality control system. It includes an overview of the system and its standards, as well as a description of the document control system. The unit focuses on employee responsibilities within the quality system.
Course #: 386E02
Duration: 70 hours (includes 7 tests)
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Part 1 (386026). Lesson 1 - Total Quality Management for Technicians:
Quality Systems, Communication, and Motivation; Total Quality Management (TQM) Tools, Responsibilities and Systems; Quality Costs: Identifying, Controlling, Minimizing, Reporting and Analysis; Planning and Conducting Audits; Inspection Systems and Planning.
Lesson 2 - Blueprint and GD&T System Interpretation for Inspection:
Using Engineering Prints for Inspection; Working with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Systems; Graphical Inspection Analysis Procedures and Advantages.
Part 2 (386027). Lesson 3 - Common Inspection Tools:
Measurement Tools, Accuracy and Errors; Spring Calipers; Gage Blocks; Indicators; Micrometers and Vernier Instruments; Hole, Attribute, and Radius Gages; Tapered Parallels; Measuring Threads; Calibration Techniques.
Lesson 4 - Surface Plate Inspection Methods: · Surface Plates and Gages: Care of Equipment; Measuring Various Attributes with Surface Plates.
Lesson 5 - Special Measurement Equipment and Techniques: · Digital Measuring Equipment; Using Optical Flats; Measuring Surface Finish; Pneumatic Comparators; Circularity and Cylindricity; Optical Comparators; Coordinate Measurement Machines (CMM’s); Hardness Testing.
Lesson 6 - Lot by Lot Acceptance: · Basic Probability; Sampling Verses 100% Inspection; Lot-by-Lot, Process Control and Random Sampling; Using Mil-Std-105E for Sampling; Dodge-Romig Tables; Mil-Std-414; Variable Sampling Tables; Operating Characteristic Curves.
Lesson 7 - Statistical Process Control in Practice: Objectives and Tools for Process Control; Computing Average, Range and Standard Deviation; Control and Specification Limits; Identifying Processes In-Control; Plotting Techniques; Control Charts and Pattern Analysis; Process Capability.
Special Notes:Course #: 2590
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 686001
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 686002
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 2545
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 186068
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 186069
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 186072
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 286M01
Duration: 35 hours (includes 7 tests)
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Lesson 1 - Pneumatic Instrumentation for Industry: Instrument Systems; How Fluid Power Works; Pneumatic Instruments; Link Mechanisms: Components and Adjustments; Cali- bration Standards, Procedures and Programs.
Lesson 2 - Pressure and Liquid Level Measuring Instruments: Principles of Pressure; Sensing Pressure; Bourbon Elements; Compensation and Calibration; Liquid-Level Instruments; Differential Pressure Instruments: Manometers, Bellows and Diaphragm Instruments, Displaces.
Lesson 3 - Flow-Measuring Instruments: Principles of Operation; Orifice Flow; Meter Types and Mechanisms; The Square-Root Problem; Integrators.
Lesson 4 - System Components, Part 1: Self-Balancing Instruments; Error Detectors; Pilot Valves; Relay Functions and Variations; Moment-Balance Pressure, Temperature and Differential-Pressure Transmitters; Moment Balance Positioners.
Lesson 5 - System Components, Part 2: True Force-Balance Instruments, Transmitters and Positioners; Motion-Balance Principle and Applications; Angle Motion-Balance Positioners; Linear Motion-Balance Instruments.
Lesson 6 - Pneumatic System Control, Part 1: Control Valve Maintenance; Control Theory and Fundamental Controllers; Gain, Feedback and Response.
Lesson 7 - Pneumatic System Control, Part 2: Controller Functions, Types and Components; Range and Gain Mechanisms; Foxboro, Honeywell, Taylor, and Fisher and Porter Controllers; Universal Controllers; Process Control.
Special Notes:Course #: 286M04
Duration: 45 hours (includes 9 tests)
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This course introduces process control system components and their operation. Students learn how a control system works and how its operating characteristics can be interpreted from schematics and ladder logic diagrams. The course explains how electronic components as well as mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical components are used to control systems measure parameters. This information is then converted into useful data or the appropriate control system response. The course discusses the application of feedback loops in real-world control systems. The student will understand how electronic systems are combined to deliver useful data signals to computers. In conclusion, the student will learn how PLCs are used throughout industry to control complex systems.
Part 1: Lesson 1 - Introduction to Instrumentation and Control Systems · Explain how process control systems and their various control elements function · Describe how various types of thermal expansion thermometers operate are matched to suitable applications · Define the operating characteristics, components, and suitable applications for thermocouples, thermopiles, RTDs, and thermistors
Lesson 2 Pressure and Level Measurement · Identify several types of mechanical and electrical pressure measuring devices, and explain how their connection and operation · Identify level measuring devices and calibrate pressure sensors, and explain how each one works
Lesson 3 Flow and Position Measurement · Explain the physical properties that affect fluid flow and flowmeters · Identify several types of proximity switches and sensors, and explain how each one works · Explain the practical factors that must be considered when position sensors are installed
Lesson 4 Automatic Control Systems · Explain how automatic process controllers function to maintain the operation of dynamic systems · Define several types of control strategies and how they’re used in practical automatic control systems · Describe how control strategies are used in practical automatic control systems and the purpose of controller tuning
Lesson 5 Valves and Other Control-System Actuators · Identify different types of valves, regulators, dampers and actuators and explain how they operate · Explain how variable speed drives work · Describe the types of circuitry used to control the speed of electric motors
Part 2: Lesson 1 - Analyzers · Explain how analyzers obtain their samples from a process · Define various types of gas and oxygen analyzers operate and how each can be used in industry · Identify common types of humidity and solids moisture analyzers and describe how electrochemical and composition analyzers can be used to identify the various liquids that make up a combined liquid stream. · Explain how an industrial liquid can be analyzed for its density, viscosity, turbidity, and refractive index
Lesson 2 Signal Transmission and Communication · Explain how various numbering systems work such as decimal, binary, octal, ASCII alphanumeric systems, and the hexadecimal numbering systems · Discuss what a communication buss is, and different types of serial communication standards such as RS-232, RS-422, RS-423 and RS-485 · Identify different types of interconnecting media such as category- rated cable, coaxial cable, and fiber optic cable, Fieldbus networks
Lesson 3 Controlling Safety Systems · Describe the operation and function of safety, safety relief, relief valves, rupture disc, excess flow, and fuel shut-off valves · Describe safety system hard wiring, PLC system and safe PLC systems differ from each other in operation · Explain flame detection sensors used for and hazardous environment detection in a burner control system and how system components send their signals back to a controller
Lesson 4 Instrumentation and Control Applications · Explain various types of control systems including cascade control systems and how they can be applied to a manufacturing process · Identify different methods of providing temperature control, accurate flows and tank level controls in an industrial process · Discuss lag/lead burner control systems, oxygen trim systems, and multi-variable control systems
Special Notes:Course #: 086084
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 086085
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 6305A-B
Duration: 20 hours (includes 2 tests)
Prerequisites:
Part 1 (6305A). Automation; Nature of Control Systems; Control Action; Self-Powered Controllers; Powered Controllers.
Part 2 (6305B). Powered Controllers; Controller Settings; Failure of Automatic Control Systems; Cascade Control Systems; Glossary.
Course #: 6306A-B
Duration: 20 hours (includes 2 tests)
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Part 1 (6306A). Basic Concepts; Thermocouple Circuits and Connections; Thermocouple Materials and Construction, Thermocouple Measuring Instruments; Electric Interference.
Part 2 (6306B). Types of Filled Thermal Systems; Bourdon Element; Temperature Compensation; Resistance Temperature Detectors; Radiation Pyrometry; Types of Radiation Pyrometers; Methods of Temperature Control.
Course #: 6309A-B
Duration: 20 hours (includes 2 tests)
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Part 1 (6309A). Pressure Measuring Considerations; Pressure Measuring Devices, such as Manometers, Draft Gages, Inverted Belts, Differential Elements, Bellows, and Diaphragm Devices; Bourdon Tube; Spiral and Helical Pressure Meters; Chemical Pressure Gages; Pressure Indicators and Recorders.
Part 2 (6309B). Calibration Standards and Methods, including Details of Dead Weight Tester, Test Gages, and Gage Errors; Pressure Measuring and Control Instruments and Equipment; Process Pressure Application Considerations; Automatic Control of Process Pressure; Selection of Pressure Instruments for Process-Pressure Applications.
Course #: 286098
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 286099
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 286100
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 286096
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 286097
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 286060
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 286061
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 286062
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 286063
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 286064
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 286065
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
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Course #: 066902
Duration: 45 hours (includes 3 tests)
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Course #: 286087
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Course #: 286088
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Course #: 286089
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