EST 115 - Industrial Mechanics

• Discuss workplace safety, personal protective equipment, best work practices, hazardous material handling, arc flash safety, electrical and general safety.
• Use hand and power tools safely. Show others how to use the tools correctly and safely.
• Identify the different types and classifications of fasteners, including bolts, nuts, screws and retaining rings. Be able to use taps and dies for the various fasteners installation. Name all the parts of the various threads of the fasteners.
• Read and interpret mechanical and electrical prints to construct or assemble the related item(s).
• Identify the particular parts, systems, and formulas for mechanical power transmission. This course includes belts and sheaves, chains and sprockets, gears and gearboxes, and the calculation for determining speed of the various ratio systems.
• Identify the different types of mechanical bearings and their application.
• Demonstrate how to align a coupled shaft with dial indicators, laser alignment tools, feeler gages, and reverse dial indicator method.
• Discuss mechanical lubrication principles.
• Identify the different types of seals, packing, and their installation.
• Demonstrate how to use vibration analysis tools.
• Demonstrate how to use various torque wrenches, which includes mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical.
• Explain preventive maintenance systems and their application to today’s maintenance field.

1. Safety
2. Tools
3. Fasteners
4. Torquing
5. Industrial print reading
6. Mechanical power transmission
7. Bearings
8. Coupled shaft allighment
9. Lubrication
10. Seals and packing
11. Preventive maintenance
12. Vibration analysis
13. Mechanical PM
14. Electrical PM