LPG ACADEMY

Training programme

Level I pneumatics
Power and control components for improved filling plant machine maintenance and trouble shooting.

Candidates level: This training is intended for candidates with good mechanical knowledge (as a minimum) and even those with notions of mechanisation or automation. The knowledge may have been acquired in the field or at school.

Purpose of the course: The purpose of this training is to provide knowledge to make trainees capable of: Understanding the pneumatics applied to machines in the filling line Identifying all the pneumatic components of a machine Understanding and making necessary adjustments Carrying out programmed preventive maintenance on these machines Making a logical approach to correcting faulty operation or breakdowns in pneumatic circuits Conversing with Siraga specialists Teaching method: Alternating theory with practical work on machines Duration: Place: Number of participants: 5 days SIRAGA Max. 8 persons

Introduction: Energy in the service of installations and mechanised or automated industrial equipment; fields of use.

Knowledge of physics required: Flow, pressure, and the relations between these values Pressure losses Conventional units. Interpretation of component dimensional data.

Production, treatment and distribution of compressed air in a building: Compressors, treatment appliances, a standard distribution network: construction requirements, consequences of inadequate treatment. How to improve an old network

Connecting a machine to the network: How to connect it to a properly treated network How to connect it to an old and faulty network. (Water, oil, dust, low pressure, etc) Starting up a machine

Automated machines: Architecture, component parts, and dialogue between them by pneumatic or electropneumatic means.

Study of the pneumatic equipment in a machine or an installation: Language, new symbolisation, choice, maintenance, use of the manufactures catalogue, etc Components at the machine input: Technologies, role, settings, maintenance, determination of filters, pressure regulators, lubricators. Lubrication, settings ; to lubricate or NOT and how? Switching and progressive starting devices. Pneumatic actuators: Traditional and special cylinders, rotating motors (technologies, standards, practical determination of stroke, motive force, torque, damping, etc) Power distributors: (technologies, assemblies, operation, implementation, standards, symbols, choice, assemblies, performance) Distributors associated with cylinders, special distributors

Auxiliary line equipment: (assemblies, functions, technologies, settings) Speed controllers, emergency vent valve, cylinder stop, advanced switches and pressure reducers

Control and processing of pneumatic and electro-pneumatic data: Man/machine dialogue components (choice, conventional symbols implementation), switches, lights and timers, - Pneumatic and electro-pneumatic sensors and probes. Standard and special sensors for positions and physical values (pressure, positions, etc) Pneumatic data processing: (advantage, fields of use, performance, conventional representation limits, trades concerned, implementation, precautions, etc) Combinable pneumatic logic cells: pneumatic AND/OR/YES/NO/ INHIBITION/MEMORIES and SEQUENCERS. Processing data from an electro-pneumatic machine. Electro-pneumatic interfaces Pneumo-electric components Appropriate programmable logic controller: choice and implementation precautions. and

Safety of pneumatic and electro-pneumatic machines: Introduction to safety.

Practical implementation work: approximately 40% of the time. - Assembly, connecting up components studied. - Typical circuits: wiring. - Studies of mechanisation diagrams, connecting up industrial equipment. (Equipment available: Asco-Joucomatic, Parker, Pneumatic, S.M.C, and Bosch) Unions in pneumatics: How to use unions and improve performance, piping up a machine: power and distribution board.

Machine pneumatic circuits and using the manufacturers catalogue Filters Pressure reducers Lubricators Switches Progressive starting devices Mechanical values (force, torque, moment of inertia, speed, damping, etc) Standard and special cylinders: (power, torque, stroke, speed, load factor, etc) Rotating motors Line accessories: (flow limiters, cylinder stops, etc) Exhaust manifolds Position sensors Power distributors and the importance of their determination: (choice criteria, flow, voltage, kV, CV, etc. ) Pneumatic circuits with cylinders developing: A dynamic force A static force

Practical work: Implementation of standard industrial mechanisation circuits. Building and connecting up the circuit with industrial equipment. (Equipment available: Joucomatic, S.M.C, Festo, Numatics, and Bosch /Rexroth) Pneumatic circuit safety: Installation of a machine in the workshop. Practical work: reading industrial circuits for fault finding. How to read, and interpret le block diagram of a machine. Interpreting faulty operation, diagnosing solutions. Methods tools to help understanding and fault finding on a circuit. Study of GRAFCET (Sequential Flow Chart) tools Implementation exercise Reading and interpreting programmes GRAFCET (Sequential Flow Chart) of small automated systems. GRAFCET (Sequential Flow Chart) applied to a system controlled by a sequencer. GRAFCET (Sequential Flow Chart) applied to a system controlled by a PLC. Practical work: training in fault finding. A logical approach to achieve success. Exercises on circuits. How to improve the performance of a pneumatic circuit and hence of the machine. Solutions by a specialist. Pneumatic circuit maintenance Maintenance, adjustment and recommended assemblies Proposals by a specialist.