AEMT's Guide to Electric Motors
What you'll learn
Module 1: ID an Electric Motor
Learn to read and interpret motor nameplates, understand pole configurations and their effect on speed, identify standard mounting arrangements, and interpret efficiency classifications.
- Identify a Motor
- Poles and Motors
- Mountings
- Efficiency
- Other Items on the Nameplate
Module 2: Dismantling & Fault Finding
Carry out safe pre-dismantle checks, follow correct dismantling sequences, perform and interpret tests on dismantled components, and recognise special motor types and accessory equipment.
- Before Dismantling
- Dismantling
- Dismantled Equipment Tests
- Special Equipment Types and Accessory Equipment
- Knowledge Check
Module 3: The Repair Standard — IEC 60034-23:2019
Understand the scope and requirements of the international repair standard, navigate the Annex A decision flowchart, apply repair-vs-replace analysis, and meet documentation, testing, and reporting obligations.
- The International Standard
- Annex A Flowchart
- Transfer Document
- To Repair or Replace, That is the Question!
- The Environment
- The Repair Facility
- Testing
- Reporting
- Finishing Up
- Knowledge Check
Module 4: An Introduction to Copy Rewinding
Understand the principles and purpose of copy rewinding, record and use winding data accurately, and follow the rewinding process from strip to completion.
- Introduction to Copy Rewinding
- Records
- Maintenance
- Rewinding
- Knowledge Check
Module 5: An Introduction to Assembly & Testing
Carry out pre-assembly checks, reassemble a motor correctly, complete accurate post-repair reporting, and demonstrate overall course competency in the final assessment.
- Checks and Tests
- Assembly
- Reporting
- Final Assessment
Total course learning time: ~3 hours
PRICING
The AEMT's Guide to Electric Motors has always been free to our members, and it still is. For the first time, however, the course is now also available to non-members at £300 per person.
Before you buy, it is worth doing the sums. Membership prices start from £553.26 + VAT per year, and every employee of a member company can take this course at no charge. Put just two people through the training as a non-member and you have already spent more than an entire year's membership, which also brings technical and legal helplines, discounted training across our academy, access to industry standards, and a place in a global community of engineering expertise. If more than one person in your business needs to understand electric motors, joining the AEMT is simply the better buy.