Industrial Hydraulics Training Package

MST’s Industrial Hydraulic Controls Training provides a complete industrial hydraulics training course from a subject matter expert. Whether you choose to schedule onsite training or utilize our curriculum and simulator package, our customized solution will provide your employees with comprehensive hydraulic controls training and experience. Schedule your hydraulic controls training today!

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Instructor Guide (1)

Lesson Plans: a complete guide for the instructor that clearly describes the learning objectives, materials needed, and topics to be covered for each of the sessions

Lesson Content: text, images, and diagrams that help to demonstrate the concepts in the session

Hands-On Activities: each session includes instructions for each hands-on activity

Student Profile Sheet

Lists all skills that must be attained by students before passing the course; provides a guide for all curriculum

Lab Guide (1)

Step-by-step instructions and pictures to support all hands-on activities

Student Guide (2)

Lesson Content: text, images, and diagrams that help to demonstrate the concepts in the session

Hands-On Activities: each session includes instructions for each hands-on activity

Tools and Components

All tools and materials needed to facilitate each session

Support Package

Email and phone support by qualified MST experts upon request

Training Programs

Session 1 – Introduction and Safety

Fundamentals of fluid power, Pascal’s Law, hydraulic system safety procedures, safe pressure release using manual control and bleed valves, safely disconnecting hoses from a pressurized system, flow/pressure relationships in hydraulic circuits, PPE and lockout considerations for hydraulic equipment

Session 2 – Hydraulic Pumps

Pump types and construction, gear pumps, vane pumps, piston pumps, pump ratings and displacement, pump efficiency, constructing a basic hydraulic circuit, pump loading and unloading, using an unloading valve to build an external pressure relief function

Session 3 – Reservoirs, Fluids, and Contamination

Reservoir design and components, hydraulic fluid properties and selection, contamination sources and classification, filtration (supply and return filters), sight glass use for level/temperature/oil color/foam inspection, physical oil sampling and inspection, wiring level and temperature circuits into pump control, simulating low-level shutdown conditions

Session 4 – Actuators – Cylinders and Motors

Cylinder types and construction, rod packings and cushioning, cylinder mounting, hydraulic motor types, torque and speed characteristics, demonstrating motor torque with a band brake, valveless cylinder extend/retract and motor forward/reverse circuits

Session 5 – Directional Control Valves

Valve types and spool configurations, solenoid-operated valves, testing solenoids at the terminal strip and coil connector, tandem-center and blocked-center valve circuits, push-button directional control circuits, disassembling a spool valve

Session 6 – Flow Control Valves

Meter-in vs. meter-out control, inline flow control circuits, sandwich flow control valves, check valves, pilot-operated check valves, speed control of cylinders and motors

Session 7 – Pressure Control Valves

Pressure relief valve theory and internal relief operation, adjusting system relief pressure, pressure-reducing valve (PRV) circuits, counterbalance valves, sequence valves and pressure switches, pressure effects on motor current

Session 8 – Hydraulic Schematics

Standard hydraulic symbols, reading and generating schematics from an existing circuit, generating a schematic and building a circuit from a written description, documenting circuit changes

Session 9 – Advanced Hydraulic Circuits

Parallel circuits with cylinder and motor, regenerative circuits, sequence circuits (pressure switch and sequence valve cartridge), dump valve circuits, complex circuits combining multiple hydraulic and electrical components, customer-specific circuit design

Session 10 – Troubleshooting Hydraulic Circuits

Using schematics, gauges, and a DMM to troubleshoot an unfamiliar circuit, identifying and replacing faulted components, troubleshooting clogged supply and return filters, confirming correct operation after repair, systematic troubleshooting procedures