Engineering Essentials

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

Engineering Essentials

The UK Engineering Specification requires all professional engineers to demonstrate their capability to provide technically sound solutions to engineering challenges.

This portfolio enables developing engineers to learn from best practice in fundamental subjects and how to communicate the information to their peers. We cover a range of methods and principles that can help ensure your engineering processes are safe, cost effective and most importantly legal.

Our essentials training suite provides practical knowledge and trains delegates in skills they will use day-to-day in an engineering organisation.

Ensure design engineers can identify and prioritise critical tolerances.

Course description:
Variations will always be present in any manufactured product and an accumulation of these small variations can have a devastating effect on a company’s profitability and reputation.

The analysis of tolerance stack-ups (or chain) is an essential component of good product design.

While there is no official standard covering the analysis of tolerances, this course recommends an approach which can be adopted by design engineers in a variety of scenarios. It gives the design engineer the means to identify and prioritise the critical tolerances that govern the fit, form and function whilst striking an effective balance between the use of cost and time.

Workshop objectives:

Demonstrate a clear understanding of the role and purpose of dimensioning and tolerancing
Produce a detailed analysis of any tolerance chain
Define upper and lower specification limits that satisfy the requirements of fit, form and function
Identify potential risks created by out-of-spec components
Show which dimensions have the most significant effect and hence need the most control
Review specifications and perform detailed checking
Present clear options on how to optimise any tolerance chain

Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.

Type
1 day workshop

Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies
This course has been mapped to the Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC. Attendance at this course may contribute to your portfolio of competence to demonstrate Initial Professional Development (IPD): a key component of the requirement for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer.

UK-SPEC Core Competence: It has been mapped against competencies: B and E.

Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Course Fee: IMechE Member – £499 + VAT | Non-IMechE Member – £599 + VAT
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)

How to detect and rectify faults in any system, effectively, efficiently and safely.

Course description:
Being able to identify faults and rectify them is key to organisations that provide systems to other businesses. Organisations are often judged not only by the reliability of their systems but their ability to respond effectively when failure occurs. It is a source of sustainable competitive advantage both operationally and commercially.

This course has been designed for engineers and technicians who require a better understanding of the methodologies that can be applied to fault finding, regardless of system type. It introduces a range of skills and techniques that facilitate fault location and diagnosis.

Effective fault finding requires more than just an understanding of technology. It is a state of mind. This course is designed for engineers and technicians with a basic understanding of their chosen technology, who require support with developing a logical strategy to effect a diagnosis and repair.

Workshop objectives:

Feel confident in dealing with the unknown when approaching a faulty system
Have an appreciation of the different fault finding strategies available
Understand which strategies to apply in which situations
Be confident in your approach to completing a repair effectively, efficiently and economically
Gain an understanding of the common fault types
Learn how to adopt a methodical approach and its importance in successful fault resolution

Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.

Type
2 day workshop

UK-SPEC Core Competence: It has been mapped against competencies: B, C and E.

Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Course Fee: IMechE Member – £995 + VAT | Non-IMechE Member – £1,215 + VAT
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)

TRIZ is a proven capability for defining and solving engineering, IT and management problems.

Course description:
TRIZ will generate new ideas and evolve technical systems more quickly, cheaply and inventively. Its principal tools enable engineers to uncover the most effective routes to practical solutions, as well as the development of next generation of products.

This one day workshop is built around the main TRIZ tools and a programme of supporting research that distils the findings from over 4 million case study analyses. The huge TRIZ toolkit helps engineers to define better problems by bringing clarity to complex situations, and then enables the generation of solutions to such problems in a reliable and repeatable manner.

Participants will learn how to apply these tools to systematically generate innovative solutions. The workshop involves several hands-on exercises and gives participants the experience to apply them back in their workplace.

Workshop objectives:

Understand the counter-intuitive nature of innovative problem solving
Define better problems
Bring clarity to fuzzy, ill-defined, complex situations
Solve difficult problems by uncovering and resolving contradictions
Accurately anticipate future problems and solutions using the TRIZ Trends of Technical Evolution
Access the world’s biggest repository of breakthrough solutions
Generate bulletproof, patentable solutions
Make better use of existing resources
Build greater confidence in ability to generate innovative solutions
Solve problems faster

Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.

Type
1 day workshop

UK-SPEC Core Competence: It has been mapped against competencies: A, B, C and E.

Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Course Fee: IMechE Member – £499 + VAT | Non-IMechE Member – £599 + VAT
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)

Create higher quality specifications faster, with improved performance and better value for money.

Course description:
Specifications are key to making sure that customers get the equipment, product or service they need. They are equally important in ensuring that suppliers clearly describe what they can provide. However, creating high quality specifications in limited time presents a significant challenge for most engineers.

This course emphasises the need for a clear definition of requirements, combined with the ability to communicate them effectively to third parties. A structured method of preparing specifications is provided and a range of practical techniques are presented, to help you put principles into practice. The commercial and contractual role of specifications are also addressed.

Workshop objectives:

Gain a clear understanding of the role and purpose of specifications
Present a framework for organising and producing specifications
Define the key steps involved in creating effective specifications
Demonstrate methods for assisting in defining requirements
Provide tools and techniques for scoping and structuring specifications
Show how specification ‘model forms’ can be developed
Present methods to assist the writing and editing of specifications
Review how specifications should be issued and controlled

Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.

Type
2 day workshop

UK-SPEC Core Competence: It has been mapped against competencies: B, D and E.