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How to Maintain & Troubleshoot Hydraulic Systems

Question

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 first 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 and 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 behavior 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 behavior in various systems

Learn about common fluidic misconceptions that affect troubleshooters!

 

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!

 

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!

 

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

Activitys; 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.

Activitys; Solenoid tests & valve disassembly, inspection and reassembly, Valve disassembly, inspection and reassembly

Learn to make logical checks to determine a valve problem!

 

Yours to keep!

When participants come away from my course with a solid understanding of how hydraulic systems are designed and how the individual components behave and relate, they are ready to make a more confident and valuable contribution to their employer. If your objective is a maintenance workforce with sharper analysis and troubleshooting skills that save the company time and money on a regular basis, this course is going to deliver.

-Sr. Instructor

 

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. Systems troubleshooting and analysis methods are taught with the goal of eliminating the “hit and 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, on-screen animations and through instructor guided hands-on study of individual hydraulic components.

No manager could go wrong sending participants to this hydraulics maintenance course if what he/she desires is a maintenance workforce with sharper analysis and troubleshooting skills that save the company time and money on a regular basis.