Date/Time
Date(s) - May 15, 2025
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Economic Development Corporation of Elkhart County
This six-day workshop covers the foundational concepts of electricity, including terms, circuits, direct and alternating current for the first two classes. The foundational concepts of electric motors and industrial transformers in the second two classes and basic industrial print reading, relay logic, industrial controls, and numbering system in the third two classes. The course also includes numerous exercises and examples. Participants who complete this course can expect to gain knowledge and learn skills useful in an industrial environment.
Objectives:
- Define electricity and electrical concepts like voltage, current, resistance, and power. Introduce polarity in conjunction with AC and DC circuits. Explore electrical properties like magnetism, capacitance, and induction. Explain scientific notation, engineering notation and engineering units like milliamps, megawatts and picofarads. Review basic electrical safety including hazards, PPE and good practices. Learn how to analyze circuits using Ohms Law. Apply these principles to series, parallel and combination circuits.
- Explain the operation and usage of motor control circuits including circuit protection, full voltage starters, soft starts and reversing starters. Describe the use of motor nameplates and motor torque curves. Explain the functionality and construction of single-phase and polyphase AC motors, DC motors, and servos. Describe the basic operation of VFDs. List basic principles of troubleshooting AC motors. Explain the operating principles of a transformer. Describe the different ways a transformer can be wired.
- Review print reading including symbols, practices, and cross-references. Explain discrete vs analog signals used for industrial control systems. Describe different types of industrial communications. Define logic gates and functions and interpret logic gates and logic gate combinations. Explain relay logic with practical exercises. Apply the logic to functions of industrial machines’ standard start/stop latching circuits and safety circuits. Explain number systems. Convert decimal number to binary number. Introduce PLC/controls and input/output cards. Practical, hands-on use of meters, relays, switches, and lights will be used throughout the course.
Intended audience: Appropriate for all levels; it is recommended that participants possess good math skills.
Workshop length: 6 days – 8:00AM – 4:00PM
Cost: $1800
Location: Economic Development Corporation of Elkhart County, 300 NIBCO Parkway, Suite 201, Elkhart, IN
Register By: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
