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Whether you’re onboarding new employees, maintaining safety standards, or filling the knowledge gaps within your workforce, Swagelok Southeast Texas is committed to providing you with hands-on training solutions that align with your specific needs and concerns.
Our training courses range from safety-focused programs such as tube fitting installation, safe selection and inspection to technical offerings like Sample System Training. Our training sessions are led by experienced, Swagelok-certified experts in our state-of-the-art training facilities or at your site.
Tube Fitting Installation & Tube Bending
8 Hours (Available as separate 4-hour classes)
Discover how to optimize your fluid system and minimize leakage with proper fitting installation and tube bending techniques. This course is designed to help you reduce rework costs, scrap, downtime and increase safety in the workplace.
Upon course completion, students will:
- Demonstrate foundational tube fitting knowledge to minimize risk of leakage and ensure system integrity
- Know how to properly select, cut and deburr tubing, correctly assemble a tube fitting along with proper use of Swagelok gap inspection gauge
- Make basic bends and understand how improper bends affect fitting performance
- Overview of thread types and proper installation of threaded connections
Advanced Tube Fitting & Inspection
4 Hours
Identifying an improperly installed fitting or bend defect can mean the difference between a sound fluid system and a shutdown. Learn how to stop leaks and blowouts before they happen through proper inspection.
Upon course completion, students will:
- Understand the mechanics of how a tube fitting works
- Identify variables that cause fittings to leak or fail and understand the different types of leaks
- Identify tube fittings components and understand their importance to proper assembly
- Point out common tube bending defects and understand how they impact fluid system reliability
- Identify the different types of threads through design and markings
- Inspect installed fittings and determine if they are reusable or not
Medium and High-Pressure Cone & Thread Installation
4 Hours
Consistent performance, especially in critical applications, is important to a successful system. This course offers foundational knowledge in cone and thread preparation and installation tailored to bring optimal performance to your medium or high-pressure system.
Upon course completion, students will:
- List safety precautions when using the coning and threading tools
- Describe medium and high-pressure fittings and differentiate the components of each
- Proper use of the coning and threading tool including tube
- preparation, inspection and maintenance
- Install cone and thread fittings
- Perform basic troubleshooting
Safe Valve Selection
2 - 4 Hours
Understand the valve selection process to get the right valve for your application to optimize performance and increase safety. Depending on job responsibilities, this session can be tailored to provide a basic understanding of valve selection to taking a deeper dive with engineers and designers that spec valves into fluid systems.
Upon course completion, students will have an understanding of:
- The five valve functions
- Process of selecting the correct valve for your application
- Materials of construction and system compatibility
- Compliance with specs and codes
- Actuator options
Pressure Relief Devices
4 Hours
This session provides an overview of products designed for overpressure and excess flow protection. Proportional relief valves, rupture discs, check/relief valves, as well as excess flow valves are covered. All attendees will participate in a workshop which includes “hands on” exercises.
Upon course completion, students will have an understanding of:
- Set pressure versus reseal pressure
- Performance variables
- Lock wire and tagging
- Trouble shooting
- Valve maintenance
Regulator Safety
2 Hours
Learn the basic functionality and safe operation of pressure reducing and back-pressure regulators to minimize risks and
Upon course completion, students will have an understanding of:
- Materials of construction
- Pressure control range
- Resolution & control
- Vent options
- Performance variables including SPE, droop and creep
Thread and End Connection Identification
2 Hours
Engaging incompatible threaded connections results in damaged ports, inoperable equipment, leaks, and downtime. This session covers the step-by-step identification procedure for thread types to ensure safe and reliable system operation.
Upon course completion, students will have an understanding of:
- Thread and end connection standards
- Proper use of pitch gauge, calipers and reference tables
- Determine the difference between tapered and parallel threads
Orbital Welding
4 Hours
With plenty of hands-on instruction, participants learn orbital welding principles, plus how to set up, run and troubleshoot an orbital welding system. Our instructor is a Certified Weld Inspector (CWI) and Certified Weld Educator (CWE) qualifications, as well as at least five years of experience in orbital welding instruction.
