Mechanical Maintenance

Course Content

Aim

To provide knowledge and skills for those lacking formal training and to enhance current skills by provision of maintenance elements.

Pre-requisite

First line maintenance workers or single skilled electrical workers wishing to enhance their current skill base to include mechanical maintenance skills.

Course Duration

The course is 3 weeks in duration.

Optimum Number

A maximum of 6 candidates per course.

Course Language

The course is delivered in English. Therefore candidates must have a good standard of both written and verbal English.

Courses can be delivered in other languages however, this would need to be discussed prior to acceptance on the course. It is the responsibility of the person making the booking to make Roxby aware of this requirement.

Training Aids

Use will be made of PowerPoint Presentation, course notes / hand-outs and discussion.

Course Objectives

• Engineering basics
• Forces
• Newton’s laws of motion
• Engineering units and standards
• Material properties and identification
• Health and Safety
• HASWA, PUWER, Manual Handling, PPE, COSHH, RIDDOR
• Machine Guarding
• Electrical Safety
• Practical/theory
• Hand Skills/bench Fitting techniques
• Speed/feed charts and tapping drill charts
• Use of drills and taps producing holes
• Drives (Chain, Belt, Gears)
• Measuring instruments
• Bearings (Fitting and application)
• Mechanical systems/function testing
• Basic fault finding techniques
• Half split and input output fault finding methods
• Use of adhesives