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
• Demo of assembly and disassembly of power pack

This program shall be conducted by Mr. N Swaminathan and Mr. Balkrishna Deshpande.

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 deisgn 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 lpm. He has served customers like GE (Austria) / Nuclear power corporation / Siemens / ARAI.

Mr. Deshpande is a Domain expert with more than 38 years of hands-on experience in machine controls design, assembly, & commissioning. He is an expert in hydraulics, pneumatics, bearings lubrication & mechatronics (focus on factory automation). He has vast experience in circuit building, system designing, commissioning & fault finding. He has delivered extensive hands-on training in hydraulics and pneumatics to more than 2000 industry professionals across India. He represented India as Mechatronics trainer & expert of Mechatronics World Skills international Competition 2013 & Jury for Russian hi-tech World Skill competition 2014.