Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Outline the importance of automotive maintenance.
- List and compare the maintenance forms and the strategies.
- Describe how maintenance work is organized in automotive
- service centers.
- Outline the job description of automotive service centers
- engineers and technicians.
- List and describe the properties of various materials
- used for automotive maintenance.
- Explain how to assess automobiles` condition.
- Explain how to evaluate the effectiveness of maintenance
- work.
Outlines
- Maintenance in the industry, in public services, and automotive maintenance.
- The maintenance forms; preventive, predictive, total productive.
- The maintenance strategies; run-to-failure periodic, Centralized, decentralized, others.
- Organization of automotive service centers.
- Structures.
- Job descriptions...
- Distance-based maintenance schedules for light and commercial vehicles.
- Automotive trouble shooting Techniques:
- Visual inspection.
- Measurements.
- Sound intensity and vibration analysis.
- In-door and-outdoor vehicles testing.
- On-board diagnosis.
- Case study on IC engines.
- Examples of engine parts failure (forms, rea sons); pistons, connecting rods, bearings, cylin der heads, cylinder blocks, valves, etc).
- Materials required for maintenance.
- Lubricants.
- Greases.
- Chemical solutions.
- Evaluation of service centers work effectiveness.
- Maintenance reports.
- Productivity of automotive service centers.
- Key maintenance indices.
Who Should Attend
- Automotive maintenance engineers
- Automotive maintenance supervisors
- Automotive maintenance technicians
- Persons interested in course matter