Training Schedule

We offer a wide variety of training courses that cover PTC, Ansys, Reliasoft, Moldex3D, DEFORM, Plaxis & Keyshot products as well as Reliability & Safety analysis training. These courses span from five-day focus courses to shorter half-day courses led by our team of expert trainers. Our trainers are also highly skilled in their respective fields and have years of professional experience behind them. We can also deliver training onsite at your premises - contact us for details.

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Creo Parametric

Creo Introduction

For new users who need to quickly become proficient in all core aspects of using Creo, including part modelling, assembly design and detail drawing. Ideal for anyone new to 3D modelling.

5 Days

£2,000.00 excl. VAT

Creo Conversion

For users that need to quickly become proficient in all core aspects of using Creo, including, part modelling, assembly design and detail drawing. Ideal for those with experience in other 3D CAD systems who are starting to use Creo Parametric.

3 days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Creo 11.0 Update

Learn the new features and enhancements in Part Modelling, Assembly, Drawing, Surfacing, Sheet Metal, Rendering along with Multi-Body Design and enhancements in the Mini Toolbar.

1 day

£400.00 excl. VAT

Creo ISDX Freeform Surfacing

Creo ISDX / Freeform Surfacing training – In Creo Parametric you can create freeform surface models using the style and freestyle modelling environments. Collectively the use of these environments is often called freeform surfacing.

1 day

£400.00 excl. VAT

Milling Using Creo Parametric

The course includes configuring tools, fixtures and machining operations as well as learning how to create milling sequences, hole-making sequences and post process cutter location data to create machine code.

3 Days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Creo Simulation

Creo Simulate Introduction

This course is designed for new users who want to enhance their product design with simulation and analysis to reduce costly physical prototyping while increasing the products durability, reliability and safety.

3 days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Creo Simulation Live

This course is designed for Creo users who want to incorporate the use of simulation early in their design cycle through the power of GPU solving. Delegates will be introduced to performing studies in Creo Simulation Live covering structural, fluid, thermal and modal physics. Course content is flexible to suit your simulation requirements with time set aside to discuss specific needs and potential applications.

1 day

£400.00 excl. VAT

Creo Flow Analysis Introduction

This course is designed for Creo users who want to quickly evaluate the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics of their design, allowing for issues to be identified and optimisations to be made earlier in the design cycle.

1 day

£400.00 excl. VAT

Creo Generative Topology Optimisation

Generative Topology Optimisation optimises the distribution of material within a defined domain, giving you a design that reduces excess material without sacrificing strength. Driving the creation of lighter and less expensive parts. Designs can be generated that are suitable for traditional manufacturing processes like casting and machining as well as for additive manufacturing.

5 hours

£400.00 excl. VAT

Windchill

Windchill Risk and Reliability

This course is designed for delegates with a basic understanding of reliability engineering and prediction methods. This course is aimed at new users of Windchill R&R who want to learn the capabilities of the tools and perform various types of reliability predictions

1 Day

£400.00 excl. VAT

MPMLink: BOM Transformation

MPMLink: BOM Transformation

1 day

£400.00 excl. VAT

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Windchill - Basic Change Management

Basic Change Management in Windchill

0.5 day

£200.00 excl. VAT

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Windchill- Advanced Change Management

Windchill Advanced Change Management

0.5 days

£200.00 excl. VAT

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Windchill System Administration

Learn how to perform routine system administration tasks - Training customised to your own system contact us for details - price includes up to 4 participants.

1 day

£1,600.00 excl. VAT

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MathCad

Mathcad Prime Update

Mathcad Prime Update from Mathcad 15 for experienced Mathcad 15 users

1 day

£310.00 excl. VAT

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Keyshot

Creo Illustrate

Creo Illustrate

In this course you will learn about Creo Illustrate and its role as a purpose built, role based solution for creating 3-D Illustrations.

1 day

£400.00 excl. VAT

Ansys

Ansys Mechanical - Getting Started

New to Ansys Mechanical? This is the place to start. After completing this course you’ll understand the complete end-to-end procedure for conducting basic linear static structural analyses and will be able to apply it to the solution of your own analysis problems. Just as importantly, you’ll learn several techniques to improve the efficiency of your solutions and the fidelity of your results. You’ll also have a firm foundation for studying many advanced analysis techniques in Ansys Mechanical

2 days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Ansys Discovery for Simulation

Ansys Discovery is a great tool for rapidly generating results and comparing multiple design iterations. Its use is aimed at design engineers, rather than requiring expert analysts.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Ansys Workbench LS-DYNA

This course covers the use of Ansys LS-DYNA inside Workbench. Ansys LS-DYNA is useful for the analysis of problems involving contact, large deformation, nonlinear materials, transient response, and/or problems requiring explicit solutions.

2 Days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Ansys Mechanical Basic Structural Nonlinearities

Learn the fundamental skills necessary to unlock the power of nonlinear solutions in Ansys Mechanical. Understand the nonlinear solution algorithm and the end-to-end solution procedure that may be applied to all nonlinear analysis problems.

2 Days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Ansys Mechanical Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics

If your design will undergo any type of motion, the concepts presented in this course will equip you with knowledge critical to a successful design.

2 Days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Ansys Mechanical Heat Transfer

Is thermal management critical to your design? Are you concerned with the effects of heat on structures? This is the place to start. This course will help you develop the skills necessary to predict the thermal response of structures to various heat loads using Ansys Mechanical. You’ll learn complete solution procedures for conduction, natural convection, and radiation heat transfer under both steady-state and time-varying conditions.

2 Days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Ansys Mechanical Advanced Connections

This course will enable you to achieve and understand simulation analysis with contact, giving you the knowledge for preprocessing full solutions and post-processing.

2 Days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Ansys Fluent Multiphase Flow Modelling

Ansys Fluent offers a range of models for multiphase flow simulation which can help you to understand multiphase flow phenomena in your application.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Ansys Fluent Heat Transfer Modelling

Solve heat transfer problems involving conduction, convection (forced and natural) and radiation, including heat transfer theory, the definition of thermal boundary conditions, and model selection and setup for radiation and natural convection.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Ansys HFSS Antenna Design

This course is designed for electronics engineers seeking to learn antenna fundamentals, harness Ansys HFSS for antenna design optimisation, and assess installed performance, allowing for issues to be identified earlier in the design process.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Ansys Mechanical Topology Optimization

This course is designed to provide knowledge about the optimization workflow in Ansys Workbench. The complete end-to-end procedure is shown from the original CAD to the final calculation of the optimized shape.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Reliasoft

Life Data Analysis using ReliaSoft Weibull++

Life Data Analysis (also called “Weibull analysis”) is a statistical technique that is used to understand the lifetime of products. Product life can be measured in hours, miles, cycles or any other metric that applies to the period of successful operation. This technique is used across engineering sectors to quantify lifetimes for all manner of things, as well as to understand how aging will influence performance. The models created can then be used to estimate important life characteristics of the product

1 day

£600.00 excl. VAT

System Reliability Modelling using ReliaSoft BlockSim

System Reliability Modelling is the analysis of a System to understand its reliability, availability, maintainability performance. This is done through breaking the system down into subsystems, assemblies and components and their arrangement. Common methods use logic diagrams, such as reliability block diagrams (RBDs) and fault trees. ReliaSoft BlockSim provides a comprehensive platform for system reliability, availability, maintainability and related analyses using exact computations.

2 Days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Moldex3D

Moldex3D - Introduction

PDSVISION UK Ltd is the first and only UK & Ireland Moldex3D Authorised Certification Centre. In this course, you will learn features, functionalities and workflows in Moldex3D using both eDesign and BLM meshes. The format of the course is a mix of theory and practical workshop exercises.

2 Days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

DEFORM

DEFORM Introduction

DEFORM® is an engineering software that enables designers to analyse metal forming, heat treatment, machining, and mechanical joining processes on the computer rather than the shop floor. This introductory course equips you with essential skills to begin modelling metal-forming processes using DEFORM 2D & 3D simulation. It offers an in-depth exploration of the DEFORM interface and the knowledge needed for a broad range of applications.

3 Days

£1,800.00 excl. VAT

DEFORM Advanced

DEFORM® is an engineering software that enables designers to analyse metal forming, heat treatment, machining, and mechanical joining processes on the computer rather than the shop floor. This course will cover a selection of advanced topics, DEFORM modules and specialised operation templates. Course can vary from 1-2 days (The price advertised is for 1 day)

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

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Simulation Principles

FEA Principles

Learning or reviewing the fundamentals of finite element analysis (FEA), including best practice, will enable you to get the most out of your own simulation software or assess the FEA undertaken by others with confidence.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

CFD Principles

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and its application in engineering analysis. Aimed at engineers and professionals new to CFD, or wanting to refresh their understanding, this one-day, lecture-based course will cover the essential concepts of fluid flow, heat transfer, and the underlying mathematical principles that govern these phenomena.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

EMC Principles

This comprehensive Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) course is designed to equip engineers and designers with the knowledge and skills needed to tackle EMC problems effectively, by covering foundational principles, design and simulation techniques, as well as regulatory requirements.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Injection Moulding Principles

Defective plastic parts are often only found late in the day and after significant investment of time and money. Our well-established course will help you develop an understanding of the causes of part defects and how to avoid them. Common plastic part defects will be explored and solutions developed, enabling attendees to design plastic parts with confidence.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Fatigue Assessment

This course is for engineers who need to predict their design's fatigue life. Understanding basic concepts will allow the engineer to confidently perform these fatigue assessments. By calculating stresses using either traditional methods or more complex finite element methods, you can ensure your design safely meets its intended design life.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

ASME Design by Analysis

ASME first issued a Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) almost 100 years ago to support safety requirements and encourage technology development. Today, ASME VIII is the most used code for designing pressure vessels, with 3 Divisions covering specific applications and approaches. Furthermore, ASME VIII is also frequently applied by engineers when assessing a wide range of other structures. Within ASME VIII, two complementary techniques for assessment are specified: Design by Rules Design by Analysis (D

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Reliability Principles

Design for Reliability Principles

Design for Reliability is a process that encompasses tools and procedures to ensure that a product meets its reliability requirements, under its use environment, for the duration of its lifetime. Design for Reliability is implemented in the design stage of a product to proactively improve product reliability, by seeking to minimise weaknesses in design.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

FMEA Process Principles

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is bottom up, inductive failure analysis that considers the effect that failure of lower level components and assemblies will have on the overall system. This technique is used across engineering to understand how systems can fail, the causes of failure and to identify the best ways to reduce risk.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

FMEA Process Principles - In Person

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is bottom up, inductive failure analysis that considers the effect that failure of lower level components and assemblies will have on the overall system. This technique is used across engineering to understand how systems can fail, the causes of failure and to identify the best ways to reduce risk.

1 day

£675.00 excl. VAT

FMEA Facilitation Principles

Failure Mode Effect Analysis is most effective when developed by a multi-discipline team that is facilitated by a skilled chairman. It is important that the chairman guides the team through analysis and ensures that effort is focused on achieving workshop objectives. This course covers the essential skills required to lead effective FMEA workshops.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

FMEA Facilitation Principles In Person

Failure Mode Effect Analysis is most effective when developed by a multi-discipline team that is facilitated by a skilled chairman. It is important that the chairman guides the team through analysis and ensures that effort is focused on achieving workshop objectives. This 1-day course covers the essential skills required to lead effective FMEA workshops.

1 Day

£675.00 excl. VAT

Fault Tree Analysis Principles

Fault Tree Analysis is a top down, deductive failure analysis that identifies combinations of events that would lead to an undesired system event. This technique is mainly used in safety and reliability engineering to understand how systems can fail, to identify the best ways to reduce risk and quantify the probability of undesired events.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Fault Tree Analysis Principles - in Person

Fault Tree Analysis is a top down, deductive failure analysis that identifies combinations of events that would lead to an undesired system event. This technique is mainly used in safety and reliability engineering to understand how systems can fail, to identify the best ways to reduce risk and quantify the probability of undesired events.

1 Day

£675.00 excl. VAT

RAM Analysis Principles

Reliability Engineering emphasises dependability in the lifecycle management of a product, where it is essential to consider the Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) characteristics. RAM analysis contains a number of techniques that help engineers understand the risks that will prevent dependable operation of a system by assessing failure modes, frequencies and consequences.

2 Days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Reliability Engineering for Asset Performance Management Principles

Asset Performance Management (APM) is a process that encompasses tools and procedures to maintain or improve an assets’ reliability, maintainability and/or availability with respect to its requirements, under its use environment, for the duration of its lifetime. APM is intended to be applied to an asset in an operational environment. Whilst many elements are involved in APM, Reliability Engineering is a central element to success.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Certificate in Reliability and Functional Safety

The certificate is aimed at those requiring an in-depth knowledge of the subject such that they may become lead practitioners within an organisation or embark on consultancy in the field.

8 Days

£4,800.00 excl. VAT

Functional Safety Principles

Fault Tree Analysis Principles

Fault Tree Analysis is a top down, deductive failure analysis that identifies combinations of events that would lead to an undesired system event. This technique is mainly used in safety and reliability engineering to understand how systems can fail, to identify the best ways to reduce risk and quantify the probability of undesired events.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Fault Tree Analysis Principles - in Person

Fault Tree Analysis is a top down, deductive failure analysis that identifies combinations of events that would lead to an undesired system event. This technique is mainly used in safety and reliability engineering to understand how systems can fail, to identify the best ways to reduce risk and quantify the probability of undesired events.

1 Day

£675.00 excl. VAT

Certificate in Reliability and Functional Safety

The certificate is aimed at those requiring an in-depth knowledge of the subject such that they may become lead practitioners within an organisation or embark on consultancy in the field.

8 Days

£4,800.00 excl. VAT

Hazardous and Operability Studies (HAZOP) Principles

This course is intended for participants with little or no experience of using HAZOP as well as managers, supervisors, engineers and technicians with at least a little understanding of both engineering design and technical safety (for example, interlocks, permissives and trips). This includes for the system to be studied an understanding of: the engineering principles the design intent the design representation of the system being studied, for example a detailed assembly drawing and the modes of

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Process Safety Management Principles

Process Safety Management is a key leading indicator for plants which are exposed to hazards as a result of their operations. These hazards include flammable and explosive materials, high pressure, high and low temperatures, contaminants and toxic substances.

1 Day

£600.00 excl. VAT

Functional Safety: IEC 61508/61511 - Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) for the Process Industry Sector

Asset owners and their staff need to consider safety instrumented systems and safety instrumented functions as vital components within process safety. The risks to health, safety and the environmental are required to be reduced to an acceptable level, So Far As Is Reasonably Practicable (SFAIRP) or As Low As Reasonable Practicable (ALARP). It is also recommended that any commercial risk to companies should be reduced to acceptable levels for the relevant business.

2 Days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT

Functional Safety: IEC 61513 - Instrumentation & Control for Systems Important to Safety in Nuclear Power Plants

This course is designed to provide an overview of the overall safety lifecycle of instrumentation and control systems important to safety at Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs), focusing on Nuclear Safety and Security.

2 days

£1,200.00 excl. VAT