Face To Face Training

 

Learning with Coleherne - Face To Face Training

We offer specialist White Metal Bearing fitting courses designed to meet the needs of the power generation, oil & gas and heavy manufacturing industries.

White Metal Bearings form a critical part of your rotating plant and machinery.  The consequences of “getting it wrong” are significant. 

Coleherne offers specialist face to face White Metal Bearing fitting courses for engineers, technicians, mechanical engineering fitters and operational maintenance staff.

Benefits

This course will:

  • Give your engineering and maintenance staff a good understanding of the science and engineering behind the White Metal Bearings in your plant.

  • Give those staff the confidence and knowledge needed for the fitting of new or refurbished White Metal Bearings in your plant.

  • Help them identify if something is wrong, what to do about it and how to prevent future bearing failures.

 Tuition for technicians is usually held within the customers training facilities saving your staff wasted travel, cost and time.

Half Day Training Course

For Up To 8 Engineers / Technicians.
White Metal Bearings - A Technical Introduction.

  • Basic principles of fluid film bearings

  • Identification and description of different White Metal bearing designs

  • Bearing materials

  • Identification of modes of White Metal bearing failure

  • Recommendation for preventing bearing failure

  • Materials handling and safety

  • An introduction to the selection of specialist tools and techniques needed for scraping and fitting of White Metal bearings

1 Day Training Course

For Up To 6 Engineers / Technicians.
White Metal Bearings - A Technical and Practical Introduction.

  • Basic principles of fluid film bearings

  • Identification and description of different White Metal bearing designs

  • Bearing materials

  • Identification of modes of bearing failure

  • Recommendation for preventing bearing failure

White Metal Bearing – Practical Fitting Skills

  • Material handling and safety.

  • Selection, maintenance and use of specialist hand tools and consumables

  • Techniques and skills needed for scraping of White Metal bearings.

  • Group White Metal bearing fitting exercise. An introduction to the measurement, assembly and fitting of a White-Metal bearing into a housing on one of our dedicated training rigs.

2 Day Training Course

For up to 4 Engineers / Technicians.
White Metal Bearings - A Technical Introduction Including Comprehensive Practical Skills For Fitting.

Day One

White Metal Bearing Knowledge

  • Basic principles of fluid film bearings

  • Identification and description of different White Metal bearing designs

  • Bearing materials

White Metal Bearing – Practical Fitting Skills

  • Material handling and safety

  • Selection, maintenance and use of specialist hand tools and consumables

  • Techniques and skills needed for scraping of White Metal

Day Two

White Metal Bearing – Knowledge

  • Identification of modes of bearing failure

  • Recommendation for preventing bearing failure

White Metal Bearing – Practical Fitting Skills

  • Comprehensive practical training in fitting and scraping of White Metal bearings on our training rigs

  • Introduction to appropriate NDT techniques and quality control

Training Outcomes

After training, engineers will have:

  • Acquired knowledge and an understanding of the basic principles and different styles of White Metal bearings.

  • An understanding of bearing failures and the confidence to give recommendations for improving bearing life and reducing downtime.

  • Gained an understanding of on-site installation of White Metal bearings

 

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