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How to Maintain & Troubleshoot Hydraulic Systems
 Red Deer, Alberta
 November 12–14, 2025
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 Our instructors draw on their extensive industrial experience to teach and challenge your team. Learning is an active process, with students at every skill level using computer simulations and real live industrial equipment. We emphasize systems thinking, reliability-centered maintenance, and advanced diagnostic techniques. Students come away from our courses with a solid understanding of how systems are designed and how the individual components behave and relate, ready to make a confident and valuable contribution. If you need higher performance, sharper analysis, and deeper troubleshooting skills, these courses are going to deliver. - Carl Dyke, CEO
Popular Courses
Practical Hydraulics
Hands-on review of flow, pressure, and directional control valves, system adjustments, pump basics, as well as safe work practices.
    
 How To Maintain & Troubleshoot Hydraulic Systems
This highly concentrated course gives you a solid understanding of hydraulic principles, and component design & behaviour.
    
 Mobile Equipment Electrical Troubleshooting
The first step in rigorous, analytical electrical troubleshooting training for mechanics.
    
 ControlLogix & RSLogix 5000 Basics
Gain experience with the functions, architecture, and software in use in the ControlLogix PLC platform.
    
 ControlLogix & RSLogix 5000 Intermediate
Basic PLC network troubleshooting and analog I/O skills. Configure a complete mill network of PLCs, and learn how to recover it after an outage.
    
 ControlLogix & RSLogix 5000 Advanced
A deep study in RSLogix 5000 to learn how and why well-built, well-programmed systems perform at their best.
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Pneumatics Maintenance & Troubleshooting
  Participants come away from this highly concentrated course with a solid understanding of pneumatic principles, and component designs and functions. 
 Practical Hydraulics
  Hands-on review of flow, pressure, and directional control valves, system adjustments, pump basics, as well as safe work practices. 
 
Blast Hole Drills
  Learn to maintain and troubleshoot the hydraulic systems in Bucyrus 49HR (Caterpillar MD664) and P&H 120A blast hole drills. 
 
Dozers & Excavators
  Go hands-on with live hydraulic components, simulations, and interactive schematics. Learn the typical circuits, sub-circuits, and operating parameters. 
 
Fundamentals of Crane Hydraulics
  Hydraulic principles, component functions, analysis, and troubleshooting skills are taught with Live Schematic simulations and hands-on equipment from typical mobile crane systems. 
 
Haul Truck Hydraulics
  Haul truck technicians and mechanics — learn to find and verify faults safely, accurately, and efficiently. 
 
How To Maintain & Troubleshoot Hydraulic Systems
  This highly concentrated course gives you a solid understanding of hydraulic principles, and component design & behaviour. 
 
Hydraulic Shovel Maintenance & Troubleshooting
  With a careful examination of major pump groups, pressure controls as well as pilot and directional valving, participants learn to verify correct and normal hydraulic shovel functions. 
 
Hydraulic System Maintenance & Troubleshooting for Coiled Tubing
  Gain a deeper understanding of injector control and reel drag hydraulics. 
 
Hydraulics for Slickline & Wireline Units
  A hands-on session on winch control and hydrostatic hydraulics. 
 
Hydraulics for Wind Turbines
  This highly customizable course examines the circuits that govern blade pitch, rotor braking, and yaw. 
 
Hydro Station Power Intake Gates
  Explore the hydraulic systems that control hydro station, power intake gates, and spillway gates. 
 
Hydrostatic Drive Troubleshooting Boot Camp
  Get a solid understanding of hydrostatic drive principles, critical components and adjustments, as well hydraulic and electric pump displacement piloting. 
 
Loaders & Graders
  Learn to maintain and troubleshoot loader and grader systems for maximum availability and reliability. 
 
Pulp & Paper Mill Hydraulics
  By the end of this training week, your maintenance team will be safely testing, adjusting, and maintaining mill systems. 
 
Sawmill Hydraulics
  A week-long intensive study of reliability-centered system maintenance. Learn our highly effective approach to troubleshooting, and practice hands-on with our hydraulic training panels and Live Schematic simulations. 
 
Advanced Hydraulics Troubleshooting & Motion Control
  Understand the internal workings of complex hydraulic motion and pressure controls, and the right adjustments for proper operation. Then, learn an effective, methodical approach to troubleshooting for when tough problems arise. 
 
Advanced Mobile with Load Sense Hydraulic Troubleshooting
  Cut through the complexity of Load Sense with our live hydraulics training panels, advanced system simulation software, oilfield and mobile machinery schematics, and hands-on study of individual cut-away hydraulic components. 
 
Hydro Turbine Governor Hydraulics
  Gain clarity on the servo-hydraulic governor systems used on hydroelectric turbines. 
 Electrical & Instrumentation

ControlLogix & RSLogix 5000 Basics
  Gain experience with the functions, architecture, and software in use in the ControlLogix PLC platform. 
 
PLC5 & SLC500 with RSLogix Basics
  A comprehensive, hands-on program using a hardware rack, and simulations of RSLogix with visual layout and animation of actual machinery. 
 
ControlLogix & RSLogix 5000 Intermediate
  Basic PLC network troubleshooting and analog I/O skills. Configure a complete mill network of PLCs, and learn how to recover it after an outage. 
 
PLC5 & SLC500 with RSLogix Advanced
  Go deeper into analog functions and high-speed data handling, with our hands-on circuitry lab and software layout environment. 
 
ControlLogix & RSLogix 5000 Advanced
  A deep study in RSLogix 5000 to learn how and why well-built, well-programmed systems perform at their best. 
 Mobile Electrical & Electronic

Mobile Equipment Electrical Troubleshooting
  The first step in rigorous, analytical electrical troubleshooting training for mechanics. 
 
Sensor Electronics
  Become a mobile equipment technician who can identify sensors, explain their function, wiring configuration, and signal type, and then conduct diagnostic tests. 
 
