Course Description

The explosive advancement and proliferation of technology innovation in the science of electronics is changing the ways we live our lives and there is a growing need for well trained tech support and service personnel. In this course, participants will gain an understanding of common industrial electronics concepts, components, and application as well as a broad range of electronic devices and components, how they operate, how they are typically used, and how to effectively troubleshoot them

Course Objectives

·         Understanding how to use electrical laws and concepts to troubleshoot electronic systems

·         Improving logical troubleshooting abilities

·         Learning how to test industrial electronic components

·         Being familiar with hazards and dangers involved with industrial electronics systems

·         Learning how to utilize industrial electronics test equipment 

·         Understanding terms, components, and common circuits used in industrial electronics field

Who Should Attend?

·         Technicians

·         Maintenance personnel

·         Electricians

·         Electrical supervisors

·         Project engineers

·         Plant Engineers

·         Engineers of all disciplines

·         Other technical individuals

Program Schedule

DAY 1

·         Basic formula and usage of Ohms law

·         Typical electrical signal systems

·         Electrical relays & time delay circuits

·         Practical: solving & checking ohms law problems

·         Practical: using ohms law to troubleshoot basic circuits

·         Practical: experimenting with low voltage signal systems

·         Practical: constructing a time-delay relay circuit

DAY 2

·         Typical motor control circuits

·         Capacitive and inductive filters

·         Phase shift and power factor

·         Oscilloscope basics

·         Practical: motor control circuit labs

·         Practical: capacitive and inductive filter experiments

·         Practical: Oscilloscope labs / demonstrations

DAY 3

·         Diodes and transistors

·         Basic transistor switch and amplifier circuits

·         Field effect transistors & MOSFET's

·         Photo-transistors & light emitting diodes (LED's)

·         Fiber-optic basics

·         Basic oscillators

·         Practical: experiment with, troubleshoot, and test diode and transistor circuits

·         Practical: experiment with basic optical and fiber-optic systems

·         Practical: experiment with basic oscillators

DAY 4

·         Silicon controlled rectifiers (SCR's)

·         Triacs

·         Typical SCR & Triac circuits

·         Integrated circuits (IC's / Chips)

·         Operational amplifier basics 

·         Basic operational amplifier circuits

·         Practical: Construct, experiment with, and troubleshoot basic SCR and TRIAC circuits

·         Practical: experiment with basic Op-Amp circuits 

DAY 5

·         Digital basics

·         Basic logic gates

·         Basic digital circuits

·         Practical: experiment with, and troubleshoot basic digital logic gates and circuits

·         Electronic troubleshooting methods, tips, and tricks