COURSE OVERVIEW

It is estimated that electrical drives and other rotating equipment consume about 50% of the total electrical energy consumed in the world today. The cost of maintaining electrical motors can be a significant amount in the budget item of manufacturing, oil, gas, petrochemical and power industries. This course gives you a thorough understanding of electrical motor’s working, maintenance and failure modes and gives you the tools to maintain and troubleshoot electrical motors and variable speed drives.
Maximum efficiency, reliability, and longevity of the various types of motors and variable-speed drives are of great concern to many industries. These objectives can only be achieved by understanding the characteristics, selection criteria, common problems and repair techniques, preventive and predictive maintenance. This course is a MUST for anyone who is involved in the selection, applications, or maintenance of motors, and variable-speed drives. It provides the latest in technology.
The course covers how this equipment operate and provides guidelines and rules that must be followed for a successful operation. Their basic design, operating characteristics, specification, selection criteria, advanced fault detection techniques, critical components as well as all maintenance issues are covered in detail.
You will gain a fundamental understanding of the installation, operation and troubleshooting of electric motors. Typical applications of electric motors in oil, gas, petrochemical, power, manufacturing, materials handling, process control are covered in detail. You will learn the basic steps in specifying, installing, wiring and commissioning motors. The concluding section of the course gives you the fundamental tools in troubleshooting motors confidently and effectively.
This course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the various types variable-speed drives. Participants will be able to specify select, commission and maintain these equipment for their applications. The excellent knowledge and skills that participants gained in this course will help their companies in achieving reduced capital, operating and maintenance costs along with increase in efficiency.