Rigorous, standards-based training and personnel certification across every mechanical discipline — from NDT and asset integrity to welding, reliability and corrosion control. Built on American and British engineering tradition, delivered worldwide.
Structured learning pathways aligned with ASME, API, AWS, ISO, ASTM and AMPP practice — from foundation technician to senior specialist.
Each program combines technical theory, applied practice and a formal assessment. Every certificate carries a unique code verifiable online.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
Develops Level 2 competence in the assembly, tightening, and integrity management of pressure-boundary bolted flanged joints, using both manual bolt-up methods and hydraulic torque tools in accordance with ASME PCC-1.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
Develops Category II competence in machinery vibration analysis, from measurement and data validation to spectrum and waveform analysis, fault diagnosis, precision alignment, and field balancing, following the body of knowledge of ISO 18436-2.
Surface Protection & Corrosion Control
A five-day foundation course for field personnel who test cathodic protection systems, covering electricity and electrochemistry fundamentals, corrosion theory, potential and current measurements, continuity and isolation testing, and evaluation of galvanic and impressed current system performance.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
A five-day course on risk-based inspection methodology for fixed equipment and piping, covering probability and consequence of failure, risk matrices, damage mechanism screening and inspection planning in accordance with API RP 580, API RP 581 and EN 16991.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
A ten-day Level II course covering phased array ultrasonic theory, beam forming and steering, sectorial and linear scans, instrument and probe setup, calibration, scan planning and the interpretation and evaluation of weld indications.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
A five-day course on assessing the structural integrity and remaining life of in-service pressure equipment using API 579-1/ASME FFS-1, covering assessment levels, damage mechanisms, metal loss, pitting, cracks and deformation, and remaining-life evaluation.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
Develops the competence to survey flange flatness and restore full-face, raised-face, and ring-type joint sealing surfaces in place using portable machining equipment, in accordance with ASME B16.5, ASME B16.47, and ASME B46.1.
Surface Protection & Corrosion Control
Prepares supervisors to plan, direct, and verify abrasive blast-cleaning operations, ensuring that steel substrates achieve the specified cleanliness, profile, and contamination limits before protective coatings are applied, and that every stage of the work is documented.
Surface Protection & Corrosion Control
Builds the practical skills to operate abrasive blast-cleaning equipment safely and to produce steel surfaces that meet specified ISO 8501-1 cleanliness grades and anchor-profile requirements for protective coatings, while observing the controls that protect the operator and the work area.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
A comprehensive ten-day program that develops core mechanical maintenance competence, covering safe work practices, lubrication, bearings, seals, gears, power transmission, pneumatics, and precision assembly and alignment of industrial machinery through structured workshop practice.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
Extends core mechanical maintenance skills into predictive maintenance, teaching technicians to collect, interpret, and act on condition monitoring data within a structured framework aligned with ISO 13374, so that early fault indications become planned corrective work.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
Develops the knowledge and skills required to operate, fill, maintain, and inspect compressed and liquefied gas pressure systems safely, in accordance with OSHA requirements, NFPA 55 and 58, and the relevant ISO gas cylinder standards.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
Develops Level II competence to plan, conduct, monitor, and document hydrostatic pressure tests of process piping, pressure equipment, and water pipelines, from test requirements and water management through instrumentation and leak detection.
HSE & Industrial Safety
A focused one-day course in the safe use of abrasive wheels on angle grinders and other handheld grinders, covering hazard identification, wheel selection and mounting, guarding, and risk assessment in line with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.215.
Engineering Design & CAD
A structured five-day course in AutoCAD 2D drafting that develops efficient, standards-based drawing production, from workspace configuration and precise geometry creation through layers, annotation, dimensioning, blocks, and plotting, using exercises drawn from mechanical and piping drafting practice.
Surface Protection & Corrosion Control
An advanced supervisory course integrating abrasive blast cleaning and protective coating application, preparing experienced blasters and painters to lead crews, enforce specifications, and verify quality at every inspection hold point.
Refrigeration & Environmental Awareness
Provides the technical and regulatory knowledge required to handle chlorofluorocarbon and related refrigerants safely and responsibly, covering refrigerant chemistry, ozone depletion, recovery and recycling, leak management, and US EPA Section 608 requirements.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
Develops Level II competence in hydrostatic testing and leak detection for plant piping and cross-country pipelines, covering test scheduling, safe test execution, test media, verification, and the regulatory requirements that govern pipeline pressure tests.
Welding, Fabrication & Piping
Develops the competence to join high-density polyethylene pipes and fittings by butt fusion, socket fusion, and electrofusion, following qualified procedures and verifying joint quality in accordance with ISO 21307, ASTM F2620, and related standards.
Welding, Fabrication & Piping
Develops the skills to install and weld HDPE geomembrane lining systems by hot wedge and extrusion welding, including trial seams, seam testing, and quality documentation for landfill, mining, wastewater, and secondary containment applications.
Surface Protection & Corrosion Control
Introduces the principles and practice of protective coating for corrosion control, developing technicians' ability to select coating systems, prepare surfaces, apply coatings correctly, and perform the basic quality checks that confirm the work meets specification.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
Develops Level II competence in positive material identification, using portable XRF and optical emission spectrometry to verify the chemical composition of metallic alloys and confirm that the correct materials are installed.
Oil & Gas Operations
Introduces the selection, sizing, installation, and maintenance of external sleeve choke valves and control valves used in wellhead and production systems, with reference to API 6A, API 16C, and ASME B16.5.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
Develops the knowledge to operate, maintain, and troubleshoot industrial steam boilers safely and efficiently, covering combustion and heat transfer, boiler types, control and protection systems, water treatment, and routine maintenance.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
Develops the knowledge and practical skill to detect and evaluate wall loss in carbon steel components through insulation, coatings, and fireproofing using pulsed eddy current testing in accordance with ISO 20669.
Surface Protection & Corrosion Control
Develops the skills to install industrial thermal insulation systems for heat conservation, cold service, process control, acoustic attenuation, and personnel protection, with correct materials, accessories, weatherproofing, and the quality practices that prevent corrosion under insulation.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
Introduces the principles, selection, operation, and maintenance of centrifugal and positive displacement pumps, providing the hydraulic and mechanical foundation required to keep pumping systems reliable, efficient, and safe in process and utility service.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
A one-day introduction to mechanical seal operation, designs, arrangements, and support systems, enabling operators and technicians to recognize correct seal operation and early signs of seal distress, with reference to API 682 and ISO 21049.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
Develops the knowledge required to plan and perform inspection of fired boilers and process heaters in accordance with API RP 573, covering damage mechanisms, design types, mechanical reliability, inspection methods, and maintenance practices.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
Develops the competence to inspect, test, and maintain compressed gas cylinders and valves, covering visual and thread inspection, hydrostatic testing, valve testing, and the US regulatory framework for cylinder requalification.
Oil & Gas Operations
Examines the physics, design, and applications of measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling tools, from mud-pulse and electromagnetic telemetry to resistivity, nuclear, and acoustic measurements and their interpretation for drilling and formation evaluation.
HSE & Industrial Safety
A two-day course on identifying workplace hazards, rating risk with structured matrices and selecting proportionate controls, applying the ISO 31000 risk management process within the OSHA regulatory framework for general industry operations.
Surface Protection & Corrosion Control
A five-day Level 2 program covering surface preparation standards, contamination and abrasive testing, coating systems and the full range of wet- and dry-film inspection tests used to verify industrial protective coating work against ISO, ASTM and SSPC requirements.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
A three-day Level 2 course on aligning coupled rotating machinery shafts with laser alignment systems, covering pre-alignment checks, soft foot, offset and angularity measurement, tolerances, correction moves, thermal growth and documentation of as-left results.
Welding, Fabrication & Piping
A four-day course for inspectors verifying butt fusion, electrofusion and extrusion welding of HDPE pipe and sheet, covering material properties, fusion parameters, visual and destructive testing, acceptance criteria and inspection documentation.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
A three-day course on inspecting adjustable pallet racking, covering warehouse configuration, rack components and load paths, damage assessment and action levels, load signage and maintenance, based on EN 15512 and EN 15635 practice.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
A two-day course on safe, controlled bolting with hydraulic torque wrenches, covering bolting and flange principles, tool selection and calibration, pressure-to-torque conversion, tightening sequences and safe assembly and disassembly of bolted joints per ASME PCC-1.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
A two-day course on assembling critical bolted joints, including rotating equipment couplings, using correct components, manual torque tightening and hydraulic bolt tensioning, with emphasis on gasket and bolt selection, joint preparation and safe working practice.
Surface Protection & Corrosion Control
A two-day course on the correct application and inspection of Carboline Pyrocrete 241 cementitious fireproofing, covering fireproofing principles, surface preparation, environmental conditions, mixing and spray application, thickness and density control and adhesion testing.
Welding, Fabrication & Piping
A three-day course on preparing, qualifying and applying welding procedure specifications and procedure qualification records, covering essential, supplementary essential and nonessential variables and qualification testing under AWS D1.1, ASME Section IX and ISO 15614.
Oil & Gas Operations
A five-day course on managing well integrity across the well life cycle, covering barrier philosophy, well barrier elements and verification, annulus pressure management, operating limits, risk assessment and long-term strategies aligned with ISO 16530-1 and NORSOK D-010.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
A ten-day Level II course on mechanized and automated ultrasonic testing of welds, combining phased array and TOFD techniques with zone discrimination, scan planning, instrument and software setup, calibration, data analysis and acceptance evaluation.
Welding, Fabrication & Piping
A five-day operator course on hot wedge and extrusion welding of HDPE geomembrane lining, covering safety, sheet characteristics, handling and deployment, machine checks, trial seams, field seaming, repairs and seam testing for containment projects.
Welding, Fabrication & Piping
A five-day introduction to the principal arc welding processes, covering welding safety, power sources and equipment operation, consumables, joint design, welding techniques and positions, and the quality requirements that govern production welding.
Welding, Fabrication & Piping
A three-day Level 2 course on post-weld heat treatment principles, methods and equipment, covering metallurgy, code requirements, thermocouple attachment, heating and cooling rate control, temperature recording and safe execution of local and furnace PWHT.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
A five-day course on shell-and-tube and other heat exchanger types, covering applicable codes, damage mechanisms, inspection techniques, tube testing, failure analysis, cleaning, repair, pressure testing and maintenance practices that support reliable operation.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
A three-day course on industrial valve types, components and materials, covering pressure–temperature ratings, inspection requirements, shell, seat and backseat pressure tests, leakage acceptance criteria, documentation and common valve failure modes.
HSE & Industrial Safety
A one-day course on controlling hazardous energy through mechanical isolation and lockout/tagout, covering OSHA 29 CFR 1910.147 requirements, isolation methods, energy-control procedures, verification of zero energy and the safe restoration of equipment.
Mechanical Maintenance & Asset Reliability
A five-day course on safe operation, routine monitoring and maintenance of pressure vessels, covering design basics, operating limits, overpressure protection, surveillance, preventive maintenance, inspection interfaces, repair practices and fitness-for-service awareness.
Welding, Fabrication & Piping
A five-day course on industrial pipe fitting, covering piping drawings, materials and dimensions, fittings and valves, fabrication and preparation, joint assembly, alignment, supports, and pressure testing of process piping systems.
HSE & Industrial Safety
A one-day course on the inspection, functional testing and operational readiness of self-contained breathing apparatus, covering components, pre-use and routine inspections, pass/fail criteria, functional checks, cylinder care, breathing air quality and record keeping.
Surface Protection & Corrosion Control
A four-day course on installing galvanic and impressed current cathodic protection systems, covering system components, anode and groundbed installation, cable connections, test stations, rectifiers, isolation, commissioning measurements and installation records.
Inspection, Testing & NDT
A one-day course on the vacuum box bubble leak testing technique for welds, covering leak testing principles, equipment, test solution, vacuum levels, surface preparation, procedure, interpretation of indications and documentation for storage tank bottoms and other welds.
Welding, Fabrication & Piping
A ten-day hands-on program preparing welders for shielded metal arc welding performance qualification on vertical-up groove welds in plate, covering safety, electrodes, joint preparation, root, fill and cap technique, discontinuities and bend testing.
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Inspection & NDT
For decades, many plants inspected pressure equipment on fixed calendar intervals regardless of what was actually happening inside it. Risk-based inspection (RBI) replaces that one-size-fits-all logic with a structured q...
Reliability & Maintenance
Reliability & Maintenance
Inspection & NDT
Corrosion & Coatings
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