The Hope Group Training Workshops / Master Catalog The Hope Group regularly conducts a variety of training workshops for its employees, customers and others at its headquarters location in Northboro MA where it has a training center and occasionally at two of its satellite locations, Portland ME and Cranston RI. In addition, when appropriate, training is provided through the Parker training centers for specific courses of study that support the needs of The Hope Group’s employees and customers.
Custom training workshops To accommodate the various requirements of its employees and customers, The Hope Group regularly schedules half-day, one-day and multi-day training workshops at its training centers and when appropriate, at its customer’s locations. These can include our popular “lunch and learn” sessions, which provide quick and easy training to small groups focusing on a specific topic.
The current available training courses include: (Select any course to read more about it)
I. Course: Basic Pneumatic Technology This course introduces participants to pneumatics as it relates to industrial machinery. Students will learn how and why pneumatic components work and how to maintain them.
Who should attend:
Maintenance personnel
Engineers
Course objectives:
Introduce pneumatics as it relates to industrial machinery
Help students understand how pneumatic components work
II. Course:Cartridge Valve Systems This course introduces participants to the principles, applications, formulae and functional characteristics of insert or DIN style and thread in or screw-in style cartridge valves.
Who should attend:
Maintenance personnel
Technicians
Engineering personnel
Course objectives:
Introduce student to insert style cartridge valves
Introduce student to DIN style cartridge valves
Operation of cartridge valves
Operating characteristics of cartridge valves
Principles of cartridge valve application
Electrohydraulic cartridge valve components
Course content:
Hands-on experience with industrial quality components
An in-depth practical study of screw-in and insert DIN cartridge valves
Review of real world application
Discussion of electrohydraulic control of DIN style cartridge valves
III. Course:Electrohydraulic Feedback Systems This course concentrates on how to design a predictable, stable, electrohydraulic positioning system to meet speed, force, duty cycle and accuracy requirements.
Who should attend:
Sales engineers
Application engineers
Course objectives:
Introduce student to practical experiences with feedback systems
To understand control system position and speed
To understand closed loop control
To provide methods for sizing a servo or proportional valve
Course content:
Valve sizing, bandwidth and feedback
Speed and positioning loops
Valve characteristics and testing
Frequency response, stability/oscillation
Servo loop gain and errors Interpretation of catalog data
IV. Course:Fluid Power Basics This course provides an overview of the range of pneumatic and hydraulic equipment available and insight into typical applications.
Who should attend:
Inside sales personnel
Customer service representatives
Administrative assistants
Course objectives:
Learn terminology to identify various components
How pneumatic components operate
Introduction to ISO 1219 graphic symbology standard
Course content:
Hydraulic components and their functions
Hydraulics lab Pneumatic components and their functions
V. Course:Hydraulic Component Sizing This course provides an in-depth study of hydraulic components, their performance and how available performance data should be interpreted to evaluate circuits for effectiveness, cost savings and energy conservation.
Who should attend:
Outside sales personnel
Engineers Technicians
Course objectives:
Teach a practical approach to component sizing
How to size actuators
How to size pumps
How to size power units
Course content:
Logical approach to component selection Rod, bore, stop tube and cushion sizes
VI. Course: Hydraulic Maintenance Technology This course covers basic theory and methods for maintaining and troubleshooting hydraulic components and circuits, including pump setup procedures, circuit assembly and troubleshooting.
Who should attend:
Maintenance personnel
Hydraulic system installers
Hydraulic technicians
Course objectives:
Review operation of industrial hydraulic components
Understanding hydraulic troubleshooting concepts
How to read and understand hydraulic graphic symbols
VII. Course:Hydraulic Pumps & Controls This course covers how to properly use performance and engineering data of variable displacement pumps and how to apply a logical circuit design procedure to any hydraulic application.
Who should attend:
Maintenance personnel
Engineers
Course objectives:
Fundamentals of pump controls
How pressure compensated variable volume pumps operate
VIII. Course:Industrial Hydraulic Technology This course covers how common industrial hydraulic components work and how they are used. Topics include valves, pumps, actuators, motors, fluid types, filtration and schematics.
Who should attend:
Maintenance personnel
Engineering personnel
Sales engineers
Course objectives:
Learn where and why hydraulics are used in industrial machinery
Understand how and why hydraulic systems and components work
IX. Course:Industrial Hydraulic Technology (2) This course expands on IHT (1). Additional topics include flow dividers, pressure compensated flow control valves, pressure compensated pumps, flow fuses, servo valves, proportional valves and hydraulic motor circuits.
Who should attend:
Maintenance personnel
Sales engineers
Engineers
Technicians
Course objectives:
Read and interpret hydraulic schematics
Understand how hydraulic systems and components work
Transfer information from schematic to an actual application
Course content:
Hydraulic circuitry including graphic symbology
System operation at the suction side of a pump
Hands-on experience building hydraulic circuits on system simulators
X. Course: Introduction to Electrohydraulics This course introduces students to the rapidly developing field of electrohydraulic proportional control where electronics are used to control hydraulic components.
Who should attend:
Maintenance personnel
Sales engineers
Engineers
Technicians
Course objectives:
Fundamental electronic theory applicable to electrohydraulic proportional valves
Understand how electrohydraulic proportional valves operated
Examine a typical printed circuit board used with a typical electrohydraulic proportional valve
Get hands-on experience connecting and using a proportional valve
XI. Course:Mobile Hydraulic Technology This course is designed to introduce participants to the fundamentals of mobile hydraulic components and how to maintain and diagnose components within a system.
Who should attend:
Maintenance personnel
Sales engineers
Assembly workers
Engineers
Course objectives:
Learn where hydraulics are used on mobile equipment
Understand how hydraulic systems and components work on mobile equipment
Learn how to read and interpret hydraulic schematics
Understand the problems and solutions inherent with mobile equipment
XII. Course:Pneumatic Circuitry This course introduces pneumatic symbology and circuit design techniques to participants who will design and construct some practical pneumatic circuits.
Who should attend:
Engineers
Sales engineers
Technicians
Course objectives:
In-depth look at graphic symbols based on the ISO 1219 standard
Reading and understanding system schematics of typical pneumatic circuits
Use system schematics for effective troubleshooting
