ABB High Voltage Products is committed to premier training solutions for the power circuit breaker industry. A variety of training packages are available, ranging from sessions conducted at our factory on a specific breaker, to sessions offered at the customer’s site focusing on a specific job or training requirement, to custom-designed courses that meet the varied needs of our customers. ABB High Voltage Products can offer training on currently manufactured circuit breakers as well as vintage ABB, Westinghouse, ITE, BBC and ASEA products. The training utilizes design documents and records dating back to the early 1900's. See chart for some of the more comm common on school schools. s.
CIRCUIT BREAKERS
MECHANISMS
242 PA
AHMA 8/11
145 PA
HMB/HMBS
72 PM
FSA2
145 PM
BLG
242 PMR
AA-10/AA-14/
242 PMG
AA-7
242 PME
HKA
550 PM HPL SFA/SF
OTHER
2300 SF LWE LW E
SCU
DWE
Laser Leak
G/GM/GC/GS
Detection
ABB
Factory Training Power circuit breaker schools conducted at our factory are offered at various times of the year. Each of these schools covers a specific circuit breaker or the equipment utilized in support of power circuit breakers. The factory schools are designed with maximum “hands-on” training, utilizing actual circuit breakers, interrupters, mechanisms, control devices and mentoring by experienced factory and field service professionals. The sessions are a unique learning experience, drawing on the combined talents and expertise of maintenance professionals, during interactive exercises, group discussion and classroom question and answer sessions. Factory training allows the individuals to learn and practice maintenance routines in a supervised environment.
The following schedule is typical for our factory school:
DAY 1
Introduction to Breaker Fundamentals Breaker Safety
- Switching - Grounding Pole Assembly
- Sling and Remodel of Bushings - Cleaning and Maintenance Bushings Through Rods Interrupter Theory and Maintenance
- Principals and Maintenance Schedules - Mechanism Disassembly/Reassembly Troubleshooting
DAY 3
Installation and Commissioning
- Electrical Controls CT's Alarms and Lockouts - Testing Breaker Timing Leak Detection Moisture Analyzer CT Ratio and Polarity Micro Obm Test of Main Contacts Multimeter - Gas and Vacuum Procedure Purging Filling SF6 By-Product
Customer Site Training ABB field service engineers often travel to customer sites and conduct training on power circuit breakers and supporting equipment. Training interrupters can be shipped to support the hands-on learning modules. This training is typically two days in length and covers the same topics as the factory school but with somewhat limited interactive practice. The benefits of this type of training include the ability of the customer to train up to ten maintenance personnel at the same time, as well as a minimized cost of travel and accommodations.
Customized Training Each customer has a unique set of needs and we often customize our training sessions to address those needs. The sessions are designed in coordination with the customer and typically involve; an initial conference call to obtain the necessary information to create a format for the training session, a customer review of the format to refine the session design, delivery of the session outline to a small group of the customer’s frontline leaders in order to ensure that the content addresses the organization’s needs and a last review with the customer before the training is delivered in its final form. The customization of a training program begins and ends with the “Voice of the Customer” as the below process map describes.
VOC
VOC Design
Test
Build
VOC
TRAIN
Major Maintenance Training The need for ABB knowledge programs is exhibited in the growing number of requests for “Major Maintenance Training”. This training format is designed to coincide with ten year maintenance routines and consists of the training of up to ten crew members by an ABB field service engineer during the necessary maintenance work. Generally, the exercise begins with classroom training of SF 6 gas and byproducts, breaker theory and maintenance routines. After the classroom sessions, the crew proceeds to the target breaker and is trained, step by step, through the maintenance procedure. This process allows the crew to gain a detailed understanding of the circuit breaker, maintenance processes and troubleshooting techniques.
