After undergoing the programme, the participants will be able to:

• Understand Hydraulic elements & Pneumatic elements
• Understand to read the hydraulic and pneumatic circuit
• Adopt preventive maintenance procedure for Hydraulic systems
• Troubleshoot Hydraulic circuits in systematic manner
• Analyze probable failures related to critical hydraulic elements
• Do assembly and disassembly of power pack

Mr N Swaminathan is a Mechanical engineer with over 40 years of professional experience. He joined BFW Ltd as R&D engineer and was involved in developing a vertical machining centre. He co-founded Leonardo Automation in 1986 as Technical Director looking after design to customer service. He was involved in design of Hydraulic powerpacks, expanded to Electro- hydraulic systems with CE marking, developed special test rigs, Actuators, lab systems and jack oil systems. The powerpacks built by him have the capacity to handle a maximum pressure of 2500 kg /cm2 and a flow of 1200 Litres per min. He has served customers like GE (Austria) / Nuclear power corporation / Siemens / ARAI.

M. Maheswaran, Senior Executive Officer, IMTMA with over 12 years of experience in Technical Training and has acquired expertise in CNC manufacturing & automation, precision manufacturing of components. He has experience in conducting training programs. Prior to working at IMTMA, he has worked at NTTF.