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PGDAMS - Post Grad. Diploma in Advanced Mechanical Systems

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PGDAMS transforms Mechanical Engineers into Multi-skilled Technical Professionals

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Topics Covered

  • • Pumps – Centrifugal Compressor – Reciprocating and Screw
  • • DG Set
  • • Gear Boxes
  • • Fans and Blowers
  • • Bearings
  • • Alignment of shafts – Theory and practice
  • • Hydraulic and Pneumatic systems
  • • Advanced Mechatronic Systems
  • • Instrumentation basics

M01 – Pumps - Theory, Practice and Maintenance

Defining pumping systems

  • • Characteristics
  • • Positive Displacement family, Centrifugal pumps, Rotary pumps
  • • Pump Fundamentals, Pump Performance parameters and curves
  • • Parallel pumps
  • • Series pumping
  • • Pump vibration
  • • How pumps get damaged – 10 Ways
  • • Monitoring and Predicting Centrifugal Pump performance
  • • Predicting pump performance
  • • Preventive maintenance
    • → Preventing bearing and seal failures
  • • Trouble shooting of centrifugal pumps
    • → Centrifugal pumps – Troubleshooting guide
  • • Trouble shooting of Reciprocating Pumps
  • • Alignments Techniques
    • → Types of Misalignment
    • → Measurement Conventions
    • → Pre-alignment Steps
    • → 4 steps of alignment
    • → Things to watch if alignment still does not happen
    • → A few helpful tips
  • • Pump mounting
  • • How to start a pump
  • • Checklist

M02 - Compressors - Theory, Practice and Maintenance

  • • 3 golden rules of Compressed Air usage
  • • Compressed air system – Supply side and Demand side
  • • Compressed air – One of the most expensive utilities on the shop floor
  • • Inappropriate use of compressed air
    • → Open blowing
    • → Sparging, Aspirating, Atomizing
    • → Padding
    • → Vacuum generation
    • → Hand blowing
    • → Unregulated End use
    • → Abandoned equipment
  • • Potential for energy saving
  • • Overview of sub-systems and sub-components of a compressor system
    • → Intake Air Filters
    • → Compressed Air Filters
    • → Why compressor cooling is required
      • → Inter stage coolers
      • → After coolers
    • → Separators
    • → Why air drying is essential
      • → Air Dryers
      • → Deliquescent air dryers
      • → Refrigerated Air Dryers
      • → Moisture drain traps
    • → Air receiver
    • → Lubrication
    • → Heat recovery
    • → Air distribution system
  • • Types of compressors
  • • Choice of compressors
  • • Reciprocating compressor
    • → Single acting air cooled
    • → Double acting water cooled
  • • Rotary compressor
    • → Single stage
    • → 2 stage
    • → Screw Compressors
      • → Lubricant injected
      • → Oil free
  • • Centrifugal air compressors
  • • Compressor Prime Movers
  • • Comparison of compressors
  • • Capacity of a compressor
  • • Calculating compressor efficiency
    • → Isothermal efficiency
    • → Volumetric efficiency
  • • vLeaks
    • → Defining and Quantifying leakage
    • → how to calculate leakage
    • → Cost of leakage
    • → Leak detection
      • → Ultrasonic leak detection
    • → How to stop leaks
  • • Compressed air system performance opportunity roadmap
  • • Air quality
  • • Air quantity
  • • Load profile
  • • System pressure
    • → Pressure drop and controlling system pressure
    • → What causes pressure drop?
    • → Minimizing pressure drop
    • → Measurements necessary for pressure profiling a compressed air system
    • → Stabilizing system pressure
      • → Importance of Primary and Secondary Storage
      • → Dedicated compressors
  • • Control strategy
    • → Matching Demand and Supply
    • → System controls
    • → Multiple compressor controls
    • → Pressure/Flow controllers
    • → Variable loads
  • • Ensuring efficiency of compressed air end-use applications
  • • Heat recovery and compressed air systems
    • → Air cooled, rotary screw compressors
    • → Water cooled compressors
  • • Calculating cost of compressed power
  • • The 7 step action plan to analyse and improve compressed air system
  • • Tools needed for monitoring and base-lining compressed air system
  • • Using Power, Pressure, and Flow to base-line System Performance and Energy Consumption
  • • Maintaining air compressors
    • → Lubrication
    • → Cleaning
    • → Belts
    • → Air treatment equipment
    • → Automatic traps
    • → Point-of-use filters, regulators, lubricators
    • → Shutting down for maintenance
    • → Routine maintenance practices for various periodic frequency
  • • Energy saving ideas for compressor air system
    • → Energy saving concept – Usage of VFD

    Reading nomenclature of compressors

  • • Types of valves
    • → Plate type
    • → Finger type
  • • Loading and Unloading characteristics of compressors
  • • Types of unloading devices
  • • Types of Drainage systems
  • • Mounting
    • → Horizontal
    • → Vertical
  • • Type of lubrication
    • → Soft
    • → Outside
  • • Non lubricated compressor
  • • Foundation
  • • Condition monitoring
    • → Temp analysis
    • → Vibration analysis
    • → Alignment analysis – axial and radial (laser based)
  • • Preventive / Predictive maintenance
  • • Breakdown maintenance
  • • Trouble shooting
  • • Checklist

M03 - Gear Box Systems – Theory, Practice and Maintenance

  • • Type of gear box
  • • Selection of gear boxes
  • • Comparison of gears and their applications
  • • Installation gear box system
  • • Alignment
  • • Back lash (use of filler gaugaes)
  • • Starting of gear box system
  • • Analysing gear box failure
  • • Lubrication with various oils
  • • Maintenance schedules of gear boxes
  • • Condition monitoring
    • → Bearing temp
    • → Vibration
    • → Back lash checking
    • → Amps current to check load on the motor
    • → Thermography

M04 – Industrial Fans and Blowers – Theory, Practice and Maintenance

  • • Types of industrial fans and blowers
  • • Comparison and their applications
  • • Selection criteria
  • • Fan system characteristics
  • • Fan performance evaluation
  • • Air flow measurement and calculation
  • • Methods to reduce air flow
  • • Predictive and preventive maintenance
  • • Condition monitoring techniques

M05 –Bearings– Theory, Practice and Maintenance

  • • Types of bearings
  • • Selection of bearings
  • • Bearing nomenclature and terminology
  • • Types and techniques used for Mounting and dismounting of bearings
  • • Industrial practices for Bearing Care
  • • Safety during bearing mounting
  • • Do’s and Don’ts of bearing usage and handling
  • • Lubrication of bearings
  • • Bearing life cycle

M06 - Alignment Theory and Practice

  • • Why alignment
  • • What is shaft alignment
  • • Types of couplings
  • • Types of misalignment
  • • Signs of misalignment
  • • Measuring misalignment
  • • Pre-alignment steps
  • • Alignment targets
  • • Alignment tolerances
  • • Soft foot
  • • Usage of shims
  • • Alignment of shafts
  • • Alignment of belt driven system
  • • Rules of thumb and tips

M07 - D G Set – Theory, Practice and Trouble-shooting

  • • Introduction
  • • Why Diesel Generator is required
  • • Type of diesel generator
  • • Parts of diesel generators
  • • Starting procedure of a diesel generator
  • • Pre-starting checks
  • • How to start DG set
  • • After starting checks
  • • Running parameters Stopping
  • • Protection devices
  • • Stopping procedure for a DG set
  • • Trouble detection and trouble shooting
  • • Why maintenance routine is required.
  • • Maintenance routine of diesel generator set
  • • Ill effects of under load running of a Diesel generator
  • • Generator glossary
  • • Preventive maintenance, shut down maintenance of DG sets
  • • Condition monitoring of DG sets

M08 - Hydraulic and Pneumatic systems M081 - Hydraulic systems

  • • Fundamentals of hydraulics: Basics of water and oil hydraulics
  • • Hydraulic system accessories: Reservoirs, filters, coolers, Instrumentation and accumulators
  • • Principle construction and working of components
  • • Hydraulic pumps: Pump basics positive & non-positive displacement pumps
  • • Pressure control: relief, reducing, regulating valves
  • • Flow control: FCV, non-return valves
  • • Actuators: Linear actuators, hydraulic motors, Hydraulic drives.
  • • Direction control valves: Direct operated, pilot operated
  • • ISO symbol and hydraulic circuit reading
  • • Performance evaluation and testing of Hydraulic pumps, Relief & DC valves
  • • Principle of solenoid valves
  • • Working principles of proportional valves and servo valves
  • • Interpretation and discussions of electro-hydraulic circuits in plant machinery
  • • Material handling system
  • • Proportional variable pump control system
  • • General troubleshooting and maintenance

M082 - Pneumatic systems

  • • Theories of compressed air
  • • Operation & function of Pneumatic system components
  • • Design & drawing of air symbols
  • • Simulation of movement phases & function phases
  • • Drawing air circuits according to standards
  • • Dryers, air receivers
  • • Compressors
  • • Pneumatic actuators
  • • Air distribution systems
  • • Directional valves
  • • Flow valves
  • • Fault-finding & trouble shooting of compressed air control circuits
  • • Guidelines for industrial safety

M091 - Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) : Allen Bradley PLC

  • • Introduction to Industrial Automation
  • • Role of PLC in automation
  • • Various systems used in automation
  • • Comparison between various automation system
  • • Introduction to PLC hardware,
  • • Architectural Evolution of PLC,
  • • PLC Fundamentals - (Block diagram of PLC's),
  • • Information about various PLC components
    • → Power supply, CPU, I/O modules and
    • → Communication bus
  • • Introduction to Allen Bradley PLC system
  • • Various ranges available in Allen Bradley PLC system
  • • Detailed information about the CPUs, I/O modules and communication techniques used in Allen Bradley
  • • Connection of field inputs to PLCs
  • • Source and Sink concepts in PLCs
  • • Introduction to RS Logix PLC Programming S/W
    • → Addressing Concepts in AB PLC
    • → Introduction to Bit Byte and Word Concept
    • → Concept of flags
    • → Scan cycle execution
    • → Various commands used in PLC programming
  • • Programming instructions arithmetic and logical
    • → Load / and / or /out / and Read / Write
    • → Compare / Add / Sub /And / Or – Blocks
    • → Leading edge / trailing edge instructions
    • → MOVE block application
  • • Programming instructions arithmetic and logical
    • → Timer Blocks programming
    • → Counter Block programming
    • → File handling
    • → Comment functions
  • • Upload, download, Monitoring of programs
  • • Programming instructions arithmetic and logical
    • → Advanced instructions
  • • Documenting the projects
  • • Forcing I/P & O/P
  • • Monitoring / Modifying data table values
  • • Troubleshooting and fault diagnostics of PLC
    • → Hardware fault detection
    • → Replacing the faulty modules
    • → Fault detection using RS Logix

M092 - SCADA Software

  • • What is SCADA / HMI?
  • • Applications of SCADA / HMI.
  • • Info about leading SCADA companies
  • • Types of SCADA packages
  • • Licensing pattern
  • • Creating a new SCADA application development
    • → Creating Database of Tags
    • → Creating Windows / Mimic pages
    • → Creating and Editing graphic display
    • → Animating the objects
  • • Creating Real-time and Historical Trends
  • • Creating Alarm and Events
  • • Writing scripts
  • • Securities
  • • Communication technique used with SCADA / HMI system
  • • Communication with hardware
  • • Working On Line / Off Line
  • • Troubleshooting the application

M093 - Instrumentation basics

  • • General
    • → Purpose of instrumentation
    • → Basic measurement concepts
    • → Measurement Practices
    • → Sensors- Inductive / Capacitive, Proximity, Ultrasoni
    • → Introduction to various sensors used in the industry
    • → Introduction to Temperature, Pressure and Flow measurement
    • → Selection, Installation and Commissioning guidelines
    • → Troubleshooting and Maintenance Guidelines
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