Platers (welders) are responsible for cutting, welding and fashioning steel into parts for machinery, conveyor systems and underground and surface vehicles.
The following modules are done during training:
Basic Training
Hand Tools: Reading of engineering drawings Use of measuring instruments and marking off of materials Using a drilling machine, grinder, welding machine and oxy-acetylene equipment
Make a template
Fabricate a flat bar bracket
Fabricate a pipe clamp
Fabricate a cone
Develop and fabricate an angled cone
Fabricate a square angle iron frame
Develop and fabricate and equal pipe T-piece
Advanced Training
Fabricate a pipe reducer
Develop an off-set pipe lateral
Develop a tapering Y-piece
Develop and fabricate an off-centre chute
Weld stainless steel
Weld cold cast iron
Use TIG welding equipment
Use MIG welding equipment
Fabricate a pipe bend
Examine and repair a chute
Examine and repair a hopper
Erect a steel construction
Service boilers
Final Training
During Final Training, learners receive intensive training to prepare them for the Trade Test. Training during this period includes all modules trained in during the Basic, Advanced training phases.
For more information and specific modules, please feel free to contact UMF-TC’s engineering (administration) Department.
Any part of the course can also be done as per client specification.