Course Details
- Course Code: OS-TT-E104-S-16M
- Mode of Delivery: Onsite
- Duration: 16 Months
- Price: On Request
Control Technician
Course Overview
The programme starts with an induction to the course and training facilities to fully understand the training process and requirements. This course is delivered through Instructor-led training and Workshop based practical training with various assessments to ensure that the candidate achieves theoretical and practical competencies. The training focuses on safe and healthy working methods, the selection and use of materials, components, and equipment for control electrician work, and knowledge of DC machines and competency in electrical controls. Upon successful completion, the candidate will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to take on the job role as a Control Electrician.
This course is for anyone interested in doing activities linked with the employment of an engineering operative.
The entry prerequisites are a good attitude toward learning, a solid motivation to study, and a reasonable level of language proficiency.
Candidates on successful completion of training are entitled to a ‘Certificate of Attendance’ attested by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation from NTI and a National Vocational Qualification Certificate (NVQ) from Excellence, Achievement and Learning (EAL), UK.
Other Details
Module 1: Engineering Foundation
- Health & Safety
- Introduction to Training & Facilities
- Site tour & Course objectives
- Evacuation Procedures
- Health & Safety Essentials at work
- Basic Fire Extinguisher
- Occupational Health & Hygiene
- Hazard Identification
- Risk assessments & Control measures
- Legal requirements
- HASAWA & COSHH
- MSDS-Material safety data sheet
- Fire warden & First aider
- Tool box talk, Safe cards
- Incident reporting
- Basic fitting skills
- Hand tools
- Marking and measuring tools
- Power tools
- Basic fitting operations
- Drilling machine, Operation and accessories
- Tapping and thread cutting
- Grinding operation
- Simple calculations –Addition, Subtraction, Division, Multiplication
- Decimals
- Ration & Percentages
- Calculate Area, Volume
- Material Science & Properties
- Types of engineering materials
- Laws of motion
- Force, motion, energy
- Engineering drawing instruments
- Types of lines
- Geometrical construction
- Dimensioning
- Orthographic and isometric projection
- Sectional views
- Drawing reading and interpretation
- Drawing Symbols and standards
Module 2: Work Ethics
- Customer Needs & Support
- Organizational structure
- Job roles and responsibilities
- Team work and your working relationship
- Scheduling & Prioritizing Work
- Time Management
- Seeking guidance and support
- Individual development plan
- Maintaining records
- Omani labour law
Module 3: English Language skills
- Basic English Language
- Communicating at work
- Greetings and wishes
- Seeking permission
- Writing letters
- Read and interpret technical manuals
- Describing a scenario
- Simple Technical Communication
- Writing a work procedure
- Requesting for tools/materials
- Filling out technical details
- Job planning / Documentation
- Conduct toolbox talk
Module 4: Information Technology Skills
- Windows operating system.
- MS office basics.
- MS Word basics.
- MS Excel basics.
- MS PowerPoint basics.
- MS Outlook / E Mails
- Auto CAD basics.
- Presentation skills
- Planning a presentation
- Structure of presentation
- Pit falls in presentation
- Presentation tools
Module 5: Electrical safety and hand tools
- Electric shock
- Safety precautions
- First aid for electric shock
- Basic hand tools
- Hand drills and power tools
- Spanners
- Cutting machines
- Electrical wires, and cables
- Types of wires
- Selection of cables
- Installation of cables
- Cable joint
- Wiring accessories
- Basic Mechanical Skills
- Tools and equipment
- Basic measurement skills, cutting and filing
- Basic cutting skills and sheet-metal works
- Drilling, threading and chamfering
Module 6: Basic Electrical concepts
- Fundamentals of electrical terms
- Units and symbols of electrical quantities
- Ohms law
- Electrical measuring instruments
- Concepts of ac and dc
- Conversion from AC to DC
Module 7: Single phase AC system
- Important terms in single phase
- Power in single phase
- Power factor and its effects
- Ac circuits-resistive, inductive and capacitive circuits
- Ac series circuits
- Poly phase
- Advantages of three phase
- Important terms in three phase
- Star and delta connection
- Three phase power
Module 8: Electrical protection
- Fuse
- MCB/MCB/ELCB/RCD
- Relays
- Circuit breakers
- Earthing
Module 9: Domestic installation, wiring and testing
- Types of installation
- PVC conduits and accessories
- GI Conduit and accessories
- Types of wiring in PVC and GI
- Over current protection
- Testing of electrical circuits
- Main and secondary distribution panel board
- Earthing-measurement and improvement
- Trouble shooting of electrical installation
Module 10: DC machines
- DC generator-working principle
- Types and uses
- DC motor-working principle
- Types and uses of DC motor
- Motor starters
- AC Machine
- Alternator-working principle
- Types of alternator
- Construction details of alternator
- AC motor three phase motor –working principle
- Construction details and types of three phase motor
- Transformer
- Definition
- Step and step down transformer
- Other Classification of transformer
- Construction details of transformer
Module 11: Electrical controls
- Introduction to Electrical controls
- Sensor & transmitter
- Selecting tools
- Basic symbols
- Process control
- Pressure measuring Instruments
- Installation, calibration & Maintenance
- Temperature measuring instruments
- Speed measuring Instruments
- Density measuring instruments
- Flow measuring instruments
- Level measuring instruments
- Weigh measuring instruments
- Control valves
By the end of the module the candidate will be able to:
- Comply with all workplace health, safety and welfare legislation requirements
- Identify & deal with health and safety at work.
- Communicate productive working practices at workplace.
- Maintain relevant records in accordance with the organisational procedures.
- Deal with health and safety at work
- Identify, select and use hand tools relevant to Industrial Electrical field.
- Use appropriate methods and techniques to assemble components correctly to produce required circuit.
- Work safely in an engineering environment, perform assembling, testing, wiring and maintenance of electric circuits/ appliances, perform maintenance and testing of process instrumentation and control devises efficiently and effectively.
- Describe Basic Electrical concepts.
- Carry out the Wiring and testing electrical DC machines.
- Perform winding, learn Construction details and recognize types of three phase motor.
- Carry out Installation, calibration & Maintenance
- Demonstrate the Maintenance of electrical equipment / machines
- Report and record work done.
Instructor-Led Onsite Training