Why is this course unique?
This course is the only picture-based, hands-on training in the industry that helps engineers, maintenance crafts, or QA/QC inspectors to perform effective field observations of equipment failure precursors. More than 300 images are used to describe the 75 commonly encountered failure symptoms for various components in the power industry. Without knowing what precursors to look for, nor knowing what instrument to use to detect the precursors, many equipment failures that could have been prevented or correctly investigated went unnoticed, thus missing opportunities to fix the problems in a timely fashion.
Benefits of this course:
The saying, “Pictures are worth a thousand words” truly applies here. This picture-based, hands-on training helps students remember failure symptoms as well as identify failure precursors to detect incipient failures and to correctly investigate the failure modes. This training course is a must for field engineers, field QA/QC inspectors, or field supervisors to lead the team performing maintenance work.
Topics covered in this course:
- Introduction to The Error-Free Zone®
- HOST℠ Techniques
- Hear the unusual sounds and noises
- Observe the abnormal conditions
- Smell the changes in odor
- Think of failure modes
- Observe abnormal colors for 14 types failures
- Observe loose connections for 7 types of failures
- Observe leaks for 5 types of failures
- Observe abnormal surface conditions for 20 types of failures
- Observe cracks for 16 types of failures
- Observe loose materials for 7 types of failures
- Observe deformation for 18 types of failures
- Case Studies