How To Maintain & Troubleshoot Hydraulic Systems

2 Days

Does your maintenance department have the most effective skills in hydraulic system maintenance and troubleshooting? If not, you may be spending too much on downtime and avoidable repairs.

This course is designed to be the next step in rigorous hydraulics training for maintenance personnel. Participants come away from this highly concentrated course with a solid understanding of hydraulic principles, component design and function. As the course progresses the systems that are analysed gradually become more complex to allow participants to see how smaller component groupings and circuits make up large factory systems.

The Ten Step Troubleshooting Process is taught with the goal of eliminating the “hit or miss” methods that can be so costly in terms of time and materials. Safety is stressed along with sound maintenance practices. This two-day course is taught with circuit simulation software and through instructor guided hands-on study of individual hydraulic components.

Learn How To:

Maintain hydraulic systems to minimize downtime and extend service life.
Think and act in a logical way when the system goes down.
Understand the behaviour of fluids under pressure.
Read hydraulic schematics accurately and expertly.
Follow correct system setup procedures.

THEORY

Objective: Explain the principals of hydraulics

Activity: Predict fluid behaviour in various systems

Learn about common fluidic misconceptions that affect troubleshooters!

This is the next generation of training with fantastic content. No one gets bored when learning. Obviously, these guys know their stuff. What's great is how interactive they are. Best course I've ever taken.Gary B., Mechanic, Syncrude

SYSTEMS DESIGN

Objective: Analyse complex circuit designs

Activity: Design circuits to solve hydraulics problems

Learn to recognize groups of valves and designs within larger systems!

I learned how to methodically check a system fault. A very intense course...fantastic!Ian M.,Mechanic, City of Lethbridge

PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE

Objective: Describe preventative maintenance procedures

Activity: Identify maintenance tasks and frequencies for given systems

Find out what it takes to get long life from your systems!

Very well laid out course with in-depth hydraulics discussion. (Trainer has) high knowledge base for complicated hydraulic systems. I would highly recommend this course to anybody wishing to learn more hydraulics.Terry M., Millwright, Johns Manville

SYSTEM TROUBLESHOOTING

Objective: List the steps in logical troubleshooting

Activity: System troubleshooting simulation exercise

Learn the ten steps to logical and organized troubleshooting!

HYDRAULIC PUMPS

Objective: Compare and explain the principles of various hydraulic pumps

Activity: Pump disassembly and damage inspection, reassembly, & Analysis of hydraulic fluid selections

Find out how to avoid early pump failure!

ACTUATORS

Objective: List procedures to diagnose common problems in actuators.

Activity: Actuator disassembly and inspection

Learn steps to keep actuator strain to a minimum!

VALVES

Objective: Identify valve designs and diagnose common problems.

Activity: Solenoid tests & valve disassembly, inspection and reassembly, Valve disassembly, inspection and reassembly

Learn to make logical checks to determine a valve problem!

Where to go from here?

How to Maintain & Troubleshoot Hydraulic Systems is part of a general hydraulics training plan. It follows our 2-day course, Practical Hydraulics, and prepares students for our advanced fluid power courses: Advanced Mobile with Load Sense Troubleshooting, Hydrostatic Drive Troubleshooting Boot Camp, and Advanced Hydraulic Troubleshooting & Motion Control.