Workforce and Economic Development
Basic Pipe Fitting
Whether its water for your plant’s sprinkler system, lubricants for your sophisticated machinery or air distribution, it all runs through a pipe.

This course is designed to improve your maintenance personnel’s pipe fitting skills to make repairs or layout new pipe.

BENEFITS TO YOUR ORGANIZATION

  • A well trained maintenance staff
  • In house pipe fitting personnel
  • Appropriately select and specify piping materials
  • Reduced down time from system failures

COURSE OBJECTIVES

  • Use safe job operating skills
  • Interpret piping and instrument tubing drawing
  • Demonstrate basic skills required to cut and join pipe
  • Demonstrate basic skills in threading, soldering, and brazing pipe
  • Explain the basic types of valves, their usage, and repair
  • Make and replace gaskets and understand their applications
  • Describe sprinkler system constructions work and how they work
  • Repair, maintain, and replace plant air distribution systems

TRAINING DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to acquaint maintenance personnel with a basic foundation and the necessary skills to make repairs or layout new pipe. This includes the determination of the proper type and quantity of material needed to complete a task and join those materials properly.

Areas of study will include PVC pipe, copper pipe, black iron pipe, butt-welding PVC, valve bodies, pipe threading, compression fittings, gasket materials, CPVC pipe, aluminum tubing, galvanized pipe, hot tapes, material specifications, pipe joining, flared fittings, and sprinkler systems.

HOURS

Your Basic Pipe Fitting training course includes 40 contact hours for up to 10 employees. 4.0 IACET Approved CEUs will be awarded upon the successful completion of the course. Pricing includes training administration, instruction, all course material, handouts, certificate of completion, and an activity evaluation at the conclusion of training.


Request more information online or call 888-999-3639.