Many industrial assembly and production lines use pneumatics as their main source of power. Pneumatic systems are systems that use gas or pressurized air to move cylinders, motors or other mechanical parts.
Pneumatics applications are relevant to a wide variety of industries, including

• Manufacturing industries, Automotive industry, machine tool manufacturers and domestic and commercial appliance manufacturers.
• Processing industries, such as chemical, petrochemical, food processing, textiles, paper, etc.
• Used in the brake system of automobiles, railway coaches, wagons and printing presses.
• Application of Pneumatics systems is widely in industrial robots

It is essential that those employees who work in and around these sorts of systems have some basic underpinning knowledge of the principles of pneumatic-powered systems so that they can operate safely around the associated production line as well as carry out some initial fault diagnosis to aid with the maintenance and rectification of the system.

This three-day introductory technical skills course is designed to give delegates instruction and practice of identifying pneumatic components, circuit construction, basic fault finding techniques and how to operate safely around pneumatics systems.

This course can be modified to meet customer requirements.

COURSE CONTENT:

• Introduction
• What is meant by pneumatics?
• How can air do work?
• Three states of matter
• Gas compression
• Advantages of compressed air (pneumatics)
• Basic pneumatic system
• General information about air
• Compressed air pipeline layouts
• Connecting the air supply
• Pressure regulator
• Air service unit
• Pneumatic symbols
• Principles of operation
  • Principles of operation - compression
  • Principles of operation - actuators
  • Principles of operation – double-acting cylinders
  • Principles of operation - valves
  • Principles of operation - pilot valves
  • Principles of operation – direction valves
  • Principles of operation - shuttle valve
  • Principles of operation - speed control valve/ timer
• Assessment