Why is This Course Essential?
When a piece of critical equipment fails, it is important to troubleshoot and identify which component(s) are responsible for the failure in a timely fashion. After identification, replacement, repair, or other corrective actions of these problematic components should be performed immediately to avoid forced outages, power loss, or manufacture downtime.
Many engineers or maintenance workers do not possess skills to troubleshoot in a timely fashion with a high success rate. They often rely on their first instincts, hearsay, or vendors’ unfounded stories to troubleshoot. More often than not, the troubleshooting tasks are performed haphazardly and introduce repeat failures.
Benefits of This Course:
This training course is built on the experience of 100% successes of more than 5,000 field troubleshooting cases on many types of complex equipment. These types of equipment include, but are not limited to, control system failures, motor failures, pump failures, pipe failures, turbine failures, generator failures, cable failures, relay and breaker failures, circuit board failures, transistor failures, transformer failures, etc.
This training course makes the troubleshooting a systematic process that always leads to 100% success. Moreover, PII teaches students how to avoid many error traps and to perform under extreme time pressure and could still ensure 100% success.
Topics Covered in This Course:
- Systematic integrated troubleshooting (SIT) process and organization
- Data collection methods -- trust, but verify
- Failure initiation time analysis
- Symptom characterization analysis
- Intermittent failures
- Non-intermittent failures and causes
- Failure modes characterization -- aging and non-aging-related mechanisms
- Failure mode refuting analysis
- Symptom analysis
- Initiation time analysis
- Triggering event analysis
- Circling the un-refuted failure modes for differential testing
- Stand-by team's roles to replace and/or repair