Erhardt and Leimer Inc.

On-the-job Training

• Insuring Shop Safety
  • Demonstrate familiarity with the operating manual and safety instructions for commonly used power tools, applicable OSHA industrial shop safety requirements and compliance with company safety practices and procedures.
  • Demonstrate understanding of built-in safety devices such as interlocks and limit switches on commonly used power tools.
  • Demonstrate proper use of personal protection devices such as safety glasses, hard hats, safety shoes and hearing protection.
  • Insuring that power tools are secured properly before start-up
  • Checking safety devices (covers, guards, limit switches, etc) are in place and functioning properly prior to operating machine
  • Observing safe and proper environmental handling of stock materials and fluids such as oil & coolants
  • Maintaining clean, neat and safe work area
  • Demonstrate knowledge and proper application of hazardous energy lockout/tag out procedures
  • Hazardous waste disposal procedures Familiarization with emergency response & fire safety
• Administration
  • Familiar with procedures for clocking in/out and time cards
  • Document used material, spare parts, working time, project steps
  • Spare & replacement parts –look up in Avante, requesting parts and putting parts back to stock.
  • Quality Management - Reporting and writing up quality issues
• Equipment Operation and General Troubleshooting
  • Cranes / Hoists
  • Forklifts
• General Maintenance and Familiarization
  • Proper use of hand tools.
  • Proper use of power tools.
• Industrial Electricity/Power Distribution
  • Familiar with Electrical Safe Work Practices.
  • Knows what power supplies are needed to operate different components on machines and how to adjust and trouble shoot.
• Operational and Technical Communications
  • Read and evaluate manuals, and company internal papers, handbooks and instruction manuals
  • Read and apply different types of drawings & diagrams
  • Read, evaluate and apply job-related national and international regulations and other technical information
  • Apply standard software, especially communication-, text-, spreadsheet-, graphic- and planning software
  • Save, archive, and maintain data; search data bases
  • Use and apply strategies to solve conflicts considering people's different cultural background
  • Visualize data, draw graphics, and present different types of issues
  • Put together and modify different system documentations and manuals
• Plan and Organize work
  • Plan tasks in a team setting, considering individual's talents and cultural singularity
  • Offer additional productivity to the customer
  • Make sure deadlines can be met, inform the customer in case of problems, and be able to offer solutions to solve the problem
  • Do quality control and document
  • Document used material, spare parts, working time, project steps and write down post calculations
  • Adjust planning and executing orders together with customers and vendors
  • Make proposals to improve work cycles and collaborate with project planning
  • Put together, check and evaluate different work results; calculate cost and earnings.
• Assemble and Install - Basic
  • Check the order and compare with real situation
  • Evaluate current supply, plan modifications
  • Define circuits and safety precautions
  • Establish circuits placement of electronic devices under the aspect of their electromagnetic compatibility
  • Check the ground to fix anchors
  • Handle different materials by sawing, drilling, countersinking, threading, as well as create connections
  • Assemble different types of casings
  • Disassemble and assemble assembly groups, exchange damaged parts
  • Choose proper wiring and wire assembly groups and devices
  • Choose and assemble distribution boards, switches, cables, and plug connections
  • Process circuits with different connection techniques
• Measure and Analyze - Basics
  • Choose measurement method and devices
  • Measure, evaluate, and calculate electrical parameters
  • Check specifications and functions of components and assembly groups
  • Analyze control groups especially with logical basic functions
  • Check signals and cutting points
  • Check and adjust sensors, especially for temperature, light, and motion
  • Check and evaluate functions according to instrumentation and control
• Assemble and Test - Basics
  • Pay attention to safety regulations while working with electric devices
  • Check rooms for special safety requirements
  • Visual check to make sure no direct contact happens
  • Measure and evaluate different types of resistances
  • Check efficacy of safety measures by indirect touching (i.e. with error current devices)
  • Document the testing
  • Visual check and test of mechanical safety measures
  • Follow fire protection rules
  • Position and connect equipment
  • Configure and adjust equipment
  • Plan, execute, and document maintenance and inspection work
  • Plan and execute the change for the newest software version under consideration of operational sequences given by customers
• Assemble and Install - Advanced
  • Position, adjust, fix, & secure equipment
  • Fix protection equipment, cover and isolation
  • Chose and install cables for energy, communication and high frequency
  • Fix and connect earthing equipment and lightning protection
  • Build in, connect and label components for lightning protection and over current protection
  • Correct errors and document changes
• Assembly and Testing - Advanced
  • Analyze process
  • Check and adjust sensors and actuators
  • Build in, wire and label equipment for instrumentation and control
  • Check and evaluate instrumentation and control
• Conceptual Design of Systems
  • Distinguish structure and capabilities of automation technology systems
  • Measure automation technology systems as well as their interfaces and standards
  • Evaluate technological connections of process technology
  • Check customer's automation technology systems concerning functionality, regulations, future viability, energy efficiency, and possible energy savings
  • Choose hard and software, conceptualize desktop and user friendly software solutions
  • Check requirements for automation technology systems, plan enhancements of existing systems, develop and evaluate different types of solutions
  • Plan automation technology systems and choose system components
  • Document and present the work that has to be done
  • Implement electric, pneumatic, and hydraulic engines
  • Consider safety issues
• Install and Power Up
  • Install data networks and their active components
  • Install sensors, processors, actuators, converter, and control equipment
  • Install machine and process controls
  • Install analog and programmable sensor systems
  • Assemble power engines and install the corresponding instrumentation and control
  • Embed visualization technique
  • Install monitoring and surveillance technology
  • Implement measurement and control technology
  • Analyze and evaluate data transfer, test and adapt interfaces
  • Install network systems and drivers for hardware components, fit them into systems and start them running
  • Start running analog and programmable sensor systems
  • Start running subsystems, implement subsystems into complex systems and provide test certificate
• Configuration and programming
  • Enter parameters and change control programs
  • Monitor program sequence, determine and fix errors
  • Configure machine and process control
  • Optimize instrumentation and control
• Test and Maintain Systems
  • Run test programs, document and evaluate test results
  • Check signals at cutting points, run network specific tests, fix and document errors
  • Apply diagnostic systems
  • Update software
  • Isolate possible errors by interviewing customers
  • Troubleshoot complex automation technology systems
  • Localize and analyze wire assembly groups and devices
  • Conduct repeated inspections
  • Conduct maintenance work
  • Identify contaminated components and devices and dispose of the m properly
• Service
  • Check equipment, adjust and start running customized
  • Collect error messages, ask user and give possible solutions
  • Give technical support to user questions
  • Conduct remote diagnosis and remote service
  • Document the service feature
  • Apply trouble shooting systematically
  • Repair electronic devices under the aspect of their electromagnetic compatibility
  • Conduct and protocol a technical check