• Electrical and Mechanical Training in Nottingham

Electrical Fault Finding Programme

Course overview:

To provide technicians with the confidence and ability to identify and fix common faults, reducing downtime.  On completion of this course, delegates will quickly identify the root cause of a fault, using recognised methodologies that provide a logical thought process to common equipment failures.

Is it right for me?

Engineers, maintenance teams, technicians and anyone who needs to diagnose and locate faults logically.

What will I learn?

The course will cover a series of practical fault-finding exercises on pre-prepared rigs and theoretical examples and will focus on:

  • Recognise and remove hazards
  • Differentiate between Methodical and Logical approaches
  • Apply the six-step and half split approach to fault-finding
    • Fault-finding on electro-pneumatic rigs
    • Basic PLC fault-finding using sensors and I/O
  • Correctly differentiate between symptoms and causes
  • Produce Flow charts to aid future fault finding
  • What is root cause analysis (RCA)? *
  • Why people don’t do use RCA & Three categories of root cause *
  • 5 stages in effective RCA *
  • Define the Problem and Collect Data
  • Identify Possible Casual factors
  • Identify the Root Cause *
  • Recommend and Implement Solutions
  • 5 whys & Fishbone diagram
  • List and demonstrate their ability to apply logical fault-finding techniques to plant and equipment

What are the benefits?

  • Reduced downtime through faster fault finding and preventing faults from recurring
  • Motivation and development of staff with improved staff retention
  • Formal targeted training with direction and end focused on business need
  • Encouragement of teamwork through coach and assessor communicating more with opposite trade
  • Re-focused of training budget
  • SOPs and training packages are written around business need
  • Safe job; Timely job; Right first-time job
  • Improved productivity as downtime is reduced due to increased skills base
  • Cross-cover of skills in event of absenteeism, sickness, etc.
  • Nationally recognised qualifications where appropriate; skills are validated
  • Training records meet and exceed those required by HSE, etc.

 Duration: 2 days without RCA *

 Duration: 3 days incorporating RCA *

Certification: an in-house certificate of competence

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