Upcoming Courses

All courses are held at Crown Training & Development, Merrillville, IN

Oct
5
Mon
Allen-Bradley PowerFlex AC Drive
Oct 5 @ 8:00 am – Oct 8 @ 4:00 pm

This course is for engineering and maintenance personnel responsible for installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting drive systems that utilize the PowerFlex AC Drive.

Topics include:  Configuration switches and jumpers within the drive, drive terminal points, critical drive parameters, using the keypad to view and change parameters, reading and interpreting control block diagrams, using the display to aid in troubleshooting.  .

Labs include: Configuration and start-up the drive, interface the drive with a PLC, configuring Digital I/O, Speed References, Skip Frequencies, Ramp Rates, Stop Modes, using Drive Software, Troubleshooting, and configuring COMM modules for data transfer.

PREREQUISITES None

LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN

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Basic AutoCAD
Oct 5 @ 8:00 am – Oct 8 @ 4:00 pm

This course is an introduction to computer-aided drafting (CAD) using the AutoCAD software program.

This course comprises topics including:  graphics and text windows, user interface, basic commands, creating drawings, editing drawings, organizing, printing, dimensioning, annotating, creating templates, and advanced layouts, and an introduction to 3-D.

Poly-lines and splines, hatching, printing, creating and setting up paper space layouts, blocks, attributes, and external references are also covered.

PREREQUISITES Prior experience with Microsoft Windows

LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN

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Siemens 6RA70 Drive
Oct 5 @ 8:00 am – Oct 8 @ 4:00 pm

This course is for engineering and maintenance personnel responsible for installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting drive systems that utilize the 6RA70 DC Drive.

Topics include:  Hardware configurations and required connections, “base drive” logic and self-tune the drive use of the available fixed function and programmable analog & binary Inputs/Outputs, troubleshooting the Armature and Field converters, use and operation of the 6RA70 regulators, function and/or use of the 6RA70 option boards, motor and drive data for proper initialization of the 6RA70.

Lab exercises include: Power section connections, parameter settings, drive initial setup requirements, self-tuning, analog & binary I/O configuration, troubleshooting, and diagnostic features of the hardware and software.

PREREQUISITES None

LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
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Oct
9
Fri
NFPA 70B Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance
Oct 9 @ 8:00 am – 4:00 pm

This course is based upon the NFPA 70B Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance.

Topics include: requirements for safeguarding persons, property and processes from failure and breakdown, standards to establish a condition of maintenance of electrical equipment for safety and reliability, the relationship between NFPA 70E and NFPA 70B, electrical maintenance programs, single-line diagram requirements, incident energy analysis, testing specifications, maintenance intervals, equipment condition assessment, protection devices, power distribution transformers, rotating equipment, motor controls, specific equipment maintenance requirements,  types of maintenance, NFPA 70B maintenance best practices. OSHA may use these standards as the basis for issuing citations.

PREREQUISITES None

LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN

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NFPA 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace
Oct 9 @ 8:00 am – 4:00 pm

This 8 hour course is based upon the NFPA 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace.

Topics include: OSHA and NFPA 70E.  Mitigating shock hazards, arc flash hazards and arc blast hazards by selecting the appropriate protective strategies. Safe electrical work practices. Determining shock boundaries and arc flash boundaries. Selecting and using Personal Protective Equipment (apparel, tools, and test equipment). Reading and interpreting arc flash labels. Inspecting and maintaining PPE.

LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN

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Oct
12
Mon
Allen-Bradley PowerFlex DC Drive
Oct 12 @ 8:00 am – Oct 15 @ 4:00 pm

This course is for engineering and maintenance personnel responsible for installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting drive systems that utilize the PowerFlex DC Drive.

Topics include:  Configuration switches and jumpers within the drive, drive terminal points, critical drive parameters, using the keypad to view and change parameters, reading and interpreting control block diagrams, using the display to aid in troubleshooting.

Labs include: Drive startup, configuring Digital I/O, Speed References, Ramp Rates, Stop Modes, using Drive Software, Troubleshooting, and configuring COMM modules for data transfer.

PREREQUISITES None

LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
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Basic Troubleshooting Skills
Oct 12 @ 8:00 am – Oct 15 @ 4:00 pm

This course is designed to improve your ability to logically troubleshoot electrical issues,  distinguish between electrical/mechanical problems, “divide and conquer” problems, and  increase your troubleshooting efficiency.

Course topics include:  Basics of troubleshooting, basics of electrical troubleshooting, basics of “Controls” troubleshooting, troubleshooting DC Drive issues, troubleshooting DC Motor issues, troubleshooting AC Motor issues, troubleshooting AC Drive issues, the basics of a process/process line, troubleshooting process/process line issues.  These topics are all presented in a way that, a normal electrical maintenance person, will greatly benefit.

PREREQUISITES None

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Introduction to Vibration Measurement and Analysis
Oct 12 @ 8:00 am – Oct 13 @ 4:00 pm

This course provides a basic understanding of vibration theory, measurement fundamentals and monitoring tools, required for vibration measurement, monitoring and analysis of vibration-related industrial system applications.

Topics include: displacement, velocity, acceleration measurements in terms of mass and speed.
Also included: monitoring methods, vibration as a PM tool and equipment maintenance practices.

PREREQUISITES None

LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN

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Siemens 6RA80 Drive
Oct 12 @ 8:00 am – Oct 15 @ 4:00 pm

This course is for engineering and maintenance personnel responsible for installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting drive systems that utilize the 6RA80 DC Drive.

Topics include: Drive and electrical safety, DC drive basics, drive hardware, drive diagrams, setting-up and commissioning the drive, optimizing and tuning the drive, operating the drive (via CUD, BOP20, AOP30), configuring the drives analog and digital I/O and feedback options, troubleshooting the Drive, use Starter PC software, and PROFIBUS Communications.

Lab exercises include: Power section connections, parameter settings, drive initial setup requirements, self-tuning, analog & binary I/O configuration, troubleshooting, and diagnostic features of the hardware and software.

PREREQUISITES None

LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
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Oct
19
Mon
Basic ControlLogix Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Oct 19 @ 8:00 am – Oct 22 @ 4:00 pm

This course is for those who have little or no working experience with ControlLogix systems and who need to interpret, make changes to, and/or draft Ladder Logic. Participants will identify the hardware associated with a Basic ControlLogix system, create and modify an RSLogix 5000 project, establish communications with a Controller, create and monitor Data Tags, document and search Ladder Logic.

Topics include: Communications, software menus, Digital and Analog I/O Modules, basic instructions, trouble-shooting features.

Labs include: Configuring communications drivers and setting IP addresses, configuring Digital and Analog I/O Modules, modifying and programming instructions (Relays (Bit), Timers and Counters, Program Control, Compare Compute, and Math) and analog scaling.

PREREQUISITES None

LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN

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