MILLWRIGHT Course Duration On average 45 Months - 18 Months institutional training - 24 Months on-the-job - 03 Months trade test preparation and Trade test Learner Program Content: BASIC PHASE ADVANCED PHASE - Fitting and Machining Theory - Maintain batteries - Electrical Trade Theory - Maintain brushes and commutators, remove, refit, bed and tension brushes - Engineering Science - Maintain exhaust brake systems - Mathematics - Maintain compressors (including receivers) - Industrial Electronics - Maintain and align a chain drive - Adjust and align conveyor belts - Maintain crushers - Wire an auto transformer - Drill a flange starter - Allowances and tolerances for - Sharpen a drill fits - Balance loads - Maintain a pedestal drill - Temper and grind a chisel - Maintain gearboxes - Identify and use resistors - Maintain hydraulic systems - Construct and test regulated - Maintain a pedestal grinder power supply - Test thyristor - Use measuring instruments - Test thyristor phase control - Overhaul a three phase motor - Explain and apply PLC - Maintain overhead cranes operating principles - Identify and use capacitors - Maintain and overhaul a gearbox - Identify and use inductors - Maintain and overhaul pumps - Identify and use diodes - Maintain pumps - Construct rectification circuits - Phase out an induction motor - Identify and use zener diodes - Maintain pneumatic systems - Construct a voltage doubler - Plan a drilling workpiece
- Identify transistor action - Maintain portable electrical equipment - Identify transistor - Maintain reticulation systems configurations - Examine bearings - Maintain and repair gate valves - Mount a bearing manually - Maintain belt conveyor systems - Remove and mount a bearing mechanically - Maintain safety devices on a conveyor belt system - Remove and mount bearings - Test a single phase motor - Remove and mount a bearing - Test a three phase motor mechanically - Fit a 16 amp plug top - Maintain valves - Fit a compression gland - Maintain workshop machines - Fit a gland - Maintain a water pipe system - Join a cable - Operate oxy-acetylene cutting equipment - Connect, maintain and test - Use welding equipment transformers (LV) - Course control documents - Maintain a gearbox - Select Conductors and cables - Operate and maintain a portable drilling machine - Check and clean gate valves - Operate and maintain a portable grinder - Check and interpret bearing - Phase out cables temperatures - Maintain clutches - Maintain cylinder heads - Explain induction motors (a) - Maintain lubrication systems Squirrel cage (b) Slip Ring - Identify contactors - Start a four stroke petrol / diesel engine - Replace chains and sprocket - Maintain cooling systems wheels - Test a low voltage cable - Fault find using a PLC system - Connect, test and earth - Make up a pipe system equipment - Construct and wire a conduit panel - Connect a 3 phase pole changing motor to rotary switch - Wire a panel - Connect pole changing motors to contactors - Connect a load to DC generator - Connect pole changing motors to fully automatic starter - Connect a DC motor and - Explain pole changing motors starter - Connect a Ward-Leonard speed - Overhaul a single stage centrifugal pump control - Direct current machines: - Overhaul a multi stage centrifugal pump theory - Maintain and align couplings - Read Pneumatic circuit diagrams
- Wire a direct-on-line starters - Principles of pneumatics - Read engineering drawings - Construct a circuit with single acting cylinders - Daily section checks - Fit and adjust a service unit - Tension and align V-belts - Control the speed of a single acting cylinder - Wire circuits - Construct a circuit controlled from two different points - Explain and draw single phase earth leakage protection circuits - Explain and draw three phase earth leakage protection circuits (5) - Explain the use of electrical measuring instruments - Overhaul an electromagnetic brake - Control the speed of a double acting cylinder - Design and construct a pneumatic circuit - Set pressure sequence valves - Construct and adjust a circuit with a time delay valve - Read energy meters - Pack a plummer block - Analyse electrical units - Explain single phase power supplies - Line up a fluid drive coupling - Explain three phase power supplies - Find faults in electrical and - Measure resistances electronic circuits - Fault find electronic circuits - Wire sequence starters (4) one - Fault find basic electrical circuit - Wire three phase reversing starters - Fault find live electrical circuit - Wire a three phase balance load (8) - Find mechanical faults - Read electrical circuit drawings - Fit split pins and circlips - Remove and replace bearings - Fault find and test pneumatic - Remove, replace and line up a coupling and hydraulic circuit - Fit washers and tighten screws - Wire semi-automatic star delta starter - Overhaul hydraulic brakes - Wire a fully automatic star delta starter - Use and maintain a variety of - Star and delta connections hand tools - Solder components - Wire an automatic resistance starter to slip ring motor - Maintain switchgear (including - Wire a liquid starter to slip ring motor contactors) - Construct a circuit with rotary - Connect a flexible cord to a motor motor - Read hydraulic circuit diagrams - Connect a single phase motor to a rotary switch - Principles of hydraulics - Connect a single phase motor to
reversing contactors - Construct a circuit with - Single phase motor theory sequenced actuators - Construct a circuit with an - Cut and fit gaskets accumulator - Maintain fuel systems - Fit seals and packing - Make up hydraulic hoses - Test and connect single phase motors - Diagnose and test a hydraulic - Safety circuit - Test the pump in a circuit - Set, tension and align V-belts - Fit and set a pressure relief - Set tension and align chain drives valve - Construct a circuit with a single - Cut a thread with stock and dies acting cylinder - Construct a circuit with a - Connect transformers (4) double acting cylinder - Construct a circuit with a check - Maintain variable speed drives valve - Control the speed of an - Test and connect DC motors actuator - Construct a dual circuit - Test and maintain earth leakage protection units - Inspect extraction fans - Use and maintain Electrical test Instruments - Install and maintain lighting - Use an oscilloscope systems - Test a single phase installation - Test a three phase squirrel cage induction motor - Test a three phase installation - Drill and tap holes - Inspect vacuum pump - Identify threads - Join, terminate and test low - Test and connect starters tension (LT) cables - Fit a key - Explain single phase transformers - Wire fluorescent lamp circuits - Explain three phase transformers - Lift and move equipment - Remove and replace universal joints - Lubricate moving parts - Convert units and prefixes - Pack a plummer block - Test and connect a universal AC series motor (single phase) - Maintain air actuating cylinders - Maintain valves and service units - Explain electromagnetism - - Assist maintaining a receiver (daily) -
Entrance Requirements: - All requirements for learners and the following: - Minimum of Grade 12 Maths and Science or Technical N2 Maths and Engineering Science (Minimum of 40% ) - Candidate will require a full N2 (four subjects) to Qualify for a test.