Who benefits from EABS training?
There are two broad types of programme
1. Courses where the content is 35% theory: 65%practical
Attendees are generally manual brazing operators, their supervisors and, for fixed torch brazing and induction heating procedures, the technicians who set-up and regulate the equipment. Multi-skilled site technicians who need practical brazing skills to augment other skills that they need in their day-to-day work., for example, refrigeration installation and maintenance engineers.
2. Training courses and seminars that are primarily concerned with the theoretical aspects of brazing technology
The courses that are included in this programme are designed to provide the course participants with a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of brazing technology. The successful outcome of a brazing process depends upon the adoption of a wide approach to the multitude of aspects that bear on the process. These parameters include appropriate design and manufacture of the piece parts, their preparation and assembly, filler material selection and, particularly where furnace brazing is to be undertaken, proper maintenance and operation of the equipment. (It is self-evident that a furnace operator is incapable of intervening at the instant when brazing occurs – few environments are as inhospitable as the hot-zone of a brazing furnace)!
It is a matter of fact that because furnace brazed joints are often very much more complex than those to be flame-brazed, and have many more joints to get right, the standards of control often have to be many times more effective than those that apply to flame-brazing, and so touch upon proportionally many more of a firms workforce.
How we organise our courses
Although similar basic principles under-pin most of the technology of brazing, in practice it is sensible to treat ‘in-air ’ brazing processes and controlled atmosphere furnace brazing procedures separately. It is also essential to draw distinctions between the brazing of major groups of parent metals such as aluminium, tungsten carbide, copper, and stainless steels. In some courses we concentrate on production practices, in others on design criteria, and the selection of filler materials.
This site contains a full list of the public courses that we currently offer.
In-house training courses are rather different because, during planning, we carry out a training needs assessment with the management of the company concerned. This enables a focussed technical programme to be developed that includes all topics that are of current interest to that company and, of course, to exclude that are not! In particular we are always at pains to help the sponsoring firms to develop ‘ best practice ’ procedures for their jobs, an aim that is often less practicable in certain public courses simply because the delegates are drawn from a variety of industries each of which having its own &lsquo family &rsquo of problems!
Samples from EABS’s public course material
We prepare detailed notes for delegates who attend our courses.
For the courses devoted to the theoretical appraisal of a specific topic, where the information provided is both extensive and relatively complex, the notes run to many thousands of words of text supported by numerous photographs, line-drawings and Tables. The data is provided to each delegate on a CD-ROM.
See the Courses page for an extract taken from a CD-ROM of a typical EABS Training Seminar. This shows the depth of technical detail and support that is a corner-stone of the EABS training philosophy!
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