Mechanical Maintenance Skills

This course provides personnel with the necessary skills to perform mechanical maintenance, including the removal and replacement of equipment (pumps, gearboxes, motors and power transmission systems) and identification and rectification of bearing faults within these systems.

Designed to benefit anyone required to undertake mechanical maintenance on production and process equipment. This course is equally suitable for production operatives or for craft personnel already involved in maintenance activities. Importantly, the course also teaches the candidates how to isolate a machine so that is safe for them to work on it.

The course format is very much ‘hands-on’ – the emphasis being on the development of sound practical skills within the context of safe working practices.

On completion of the course, participants will be able to

• understand the principles of preventive and first-line maintenance
• apply safe working practices
• describe a range of mechanical faults and plan suitable courses of action
• understand the principles of power transmission systems
• remove and refit taper-lock bushes, keyed shafts, belts, chains and couplings
• install and align shafts; tension drive train components
• identify types of bearing, their typical applications and common defects
• correctly remove and refit various types of bearings
• describe various methods of removing broken studs
• recognise stripped threads and correctly use thread repair equipment
• manufacture gaskets using industry standard techniques
• understand how to remove and replace seals and gland packing
• understand the operation of various gearboxes
• recognise various types of conveyor systems and their main components
• perform safe mechanical isolations on a working rig.