58 programmes in electrical and instrumentation, available as public courses, online delivery or in-house training for your own team.
Showing 58 of 58 courses
Transformers are the backbone of every substation and industrial power supply across Africa...
Oil filled transformers and cables develop faults that reveal themselves through gases dissolved in the insulating oil long before failure.
Senior engineers running large industrial and utility electrical systems need a deep grasp of power engineering beyond the basics.
Accurate measurement and reliable control keep African process plants running safely and efficiently...
Electrical incidents remain a leading cause of serious injury on African worksites, yet most are preventable with sound practice.
Well designed and correctly installed electrical and instrumentation systems are the foundation of safe, productive African plants.
Instrument transformers feed protection and metering systems, so errors in current and voltage transformers ripple through the whole...
As African power sectors reform and open to independent producers, technical staff increasingly need to understand the money behind the...
Circuit breakers must interrupt fault currents reliably to protect people and equipment across the full voltage range.
Thermal imaging finds loose connections, overloaded circuits and failing components before they cause fires or outages.
Solar, wind and other clean sources are reshaping how Africa generates and uses power, both on the grid and off it.
Electric motors drive pumps, fans, conveyors and mills across every African industry, and motor failures halt production fast.
With frequent supply interruptions across the region, reliable backup power protects critical loads in hospitals...
Protection relays and switchgear act as the nervous system of a power network, clearing faults quickly to save equipment and lives.
Underground and overhead cables carry power across African sites, and a single cable fault can stop an entire operation.
Sound earthing and lightning protection safeguard people and equipment, a real concern given the intense storms common across much of...
Supervisory control and data acquisition systems let operators monitor and control plants and networks from a central point...
Planning and operating a stable power network depends on understanding how power flows and how the system responds to changes and faults.
Variable speed drives and soft starters control motor speed and starting current across industrial plant...
Well built control and distribution panels are the backbone of safe, reliable plant. This course covers panel design, component selection...
Poor power quality quietly drains efficiency, trips sensitive equipment and shortens the life of motors and transformers across African...
Reliable supply depends on networks that are planned for growth and operated with discipline.
Protection that is poorly coordinated either trips too much or fails to clear faults, putting people and plant at risk.
A circuit breaker that opens a fraction too slowly can turn a routine fault into serious damage.
Electrified rail depends on traction supply systems that behave very differently from ordinary distribution.
An arc flash releases enough energy to cause severe burns in a fraction of a second, yet the risk is often underestimated.
Solar generation is expanding rapidly across the continent, and poorly designed systems underperform or fail early.
Ring main units, reclosers and pad mounted equipment carry the daily load of distribution networks...
Most serious electrical injuries happen because equipment was not properly isolated before work began.
Power systems now blend conventional plant with variable renewable generation, making stable operation more demanding than ever.
Industrial plants filled with drives, converters and furnaces generate harmonics that overheat equipment and disturb sensitive controls.
Utilities across the region lose significant income to metering errors, tampering and technical losses in the network.
High voltage switchgear demands respect, correct operation and disciplined maintenance to remain safe and reliable.
Downtime often comes down to how quickly a technician can locate and repair an electrical fault.
Choosing the wrong transformer, or missing early warning signs, leads to premature failure and costly outages.
Deciding which generating units to run and how much each should produce has a direct effect on cost and reliability.
Running a power utility means balancing technical performance, finance and customer service under constant pressure.
Small gains in power station efficiency translate into large savings in fuel and emissions over a year of operation.
Substations hold serious hazards that can injure even those who never touch the equipment.
Phasor measurement units give operators a fast, synchronised view of grid behaviour that traditional systems cannot match.
A substation is where the grid is switched, transformed and protected, so understanding how it is designed and run underpins reliable...
The excitation system decides a generator's voltage, its share of reactive power and much of its stability...
A distributed control system is the nerve centre of a modern process plant, tying instruments, control loops and operators into one place.
When process control cannot hold a plant safe, a safety instrumented system is the layer that acts...
An alarm flood teaches operators to ignore alarms, which is exactly when a plant most needs them to respond.
The control valve is where a control signal becomes a real change in flow, so a poorly chosen or badly tuned valve limits the whole loop.
Modern instruments talk to control systems over digital networks, and when those networks are misunderstood...
When product changes hands, the meter reading becomes money, so custody transfer and fiscal metering are held to a far higher standard than...
A control loop that hunts, drifts or sits in manual costs quality, energy and equipment life every hour it runs.
Battery storage is moving from pilot to mainstream on grids and behind the meter, and how a system is designed decides whether it pays back...
Lighting is often designed by habit, leaving spaces over lit, glary or expensive to run.
The programmable logic controller runs most of the automation on a plant, and staff who can program and diagnose it keep production moving.
A cluttered or misleading operator screen slows response exactly when a plant is upset.
When basic loops reach their limit, advanced process control squeezes out the last of the quality, throughput and energy gains.
In an explosive atmosphere, the wrong instrument or a careless installation can be the ignition source.
The systems that run a plant were built for reliability, not for a hostile network, and connecting them without care invites trouble.
A machine guard is only as good as the control system that enforces it, and that is what machinery functional safety governs.
A boiler that burns badly wastes fuel and, at worst, risks an explosion, so combustion control and burner management are safety as much as...