Industrial Electromechanics: online course with internship agreement
Industrial Electromechanics teaches you to maintain production lines. You will read electrical drawings and ISO 1219 circuits, diagnose gearboxes, belts, sensors, contactors and VFDs, write fault reports, calculate OEE and apply lockout/tagout. The course is designed for future maintenance technicians. It runs 100 % online at your own pace for 180 days and includes a practical internship with an internship agreement. Price: €200.
- 180 days of access
- 100 % online, at your own pace
- Level: beginner · No prior maintenance experience required
- Assessment: 10 quizzes (50 questions) and a final project
- Internship agreement included
- Certificate with a verifiable QR code
- Languages: Spanish, English, French
- Price: €200
Who it is for
- People aiming to work as maintenance technicians in manufacturing plants
- Junior technicians who want a fault-finding method instead of guesswork
- Electricians or mechanics who need to cover both the electrical and mechanical sides of a line
- Production operators moving into maintenance roles
What do you need to start?
Prior knowledge
- No prior knowledge of electrics, pneumatics or maintenance is needed
- Basic arithmetic to work with motor nameplate values and availability, performance and quality figures
- Reading technical documents in English
Software and equipment
- A computer with an internet connection
- QElectroTech: free, open-source drawing software for Windows, Linux and macOS, with no licence fee
What you'll be able to do
- Trace a control signal on an electrical drawing from pushbutton to contactor coil
- Identify gear, belt, chain and power-screw drives and their typical failure modes
- Read ISO 1219 pneumatic and hydraulic circuits and use pressure-versus-flow checks to fault-find slow cylinders
- Read a three-phase motor nameplate to set protection and link the terminal box correctly
- Diagnose contactors, relays, breakers and 24 V supplies by checking supply, protection, switching device and load
- Write fault reports that record the symptom, root cause and corrective action
- Calculate availability, performance, quality and OEE from a shift's figures
- Carry out the six-step lockout/tagout sequence and explain why a stopped machine is not an isolated one
Skills you will practise
- Electrical drawing reading
- ISO 1219 symbols
- Mechanical power transmission
- Field sensors
- VFD parameterisation
- Contactor and relay diagnosis
- CMMS and fault reports
- OEE calculation
- Lockout/tagout
- Conveyor troubleshooting
Syllabus
- The European maintenance technician: roles and shortages — What a maintenance technician does on a production line, how the role is organised and where demand for these skills is found.
- Reading the machine: electrical drawings, cabinets and I/O — Following a control signal from pushbutton to contactor coil and finding any cabinet component from its standard designation.
- Mechanical power transmission: gears, belts, chains and power screws — Recognising the four transmission types and spotting slippage, wear, misalignment and backlash before they cause a breakdown.
- Pneumatics and hydraulics: ISO 1219 symbols, FRL units and troubleshooting — Reading circuits with cylinders, valves and FRL units, and locating faults in slow, short-stroke or non-returning cylinders.
- Field sensors: photoelectric, inductive, capacitive and laser distance — How the main types of industrial sensor work and how to tell a sensor fault from a problem further upstream.
- Motors, drives and VFD parameterisation — Nameplates, direct-on-line, star-delta and drive starting, how a VFD works and what to check before resetting a tripped drive.
- Diagnosing contactors, relays, thermal-magnetic protections and power supplies — A fixed fault-finding method, how to choose correct replacements by coil voltage and contact rating, and thermal versus magnetic trips.
- Preventive maintenance, lubrication and CMMS — Writing work orders with symptom, root cause and corrective action, lubricating correctly and calculating OEE from shift data.
- Machine safety and lockout/tagout under the 2027 Machinery Regulation — Identifying energy sources, the six-step lockout/tagout sequence and what Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 changes from 20 January 2027.
- Conveyor systems and line mechanisms: a troubleshooting case study — Diagnosing conveyor misalignment, chain or belt wear and drum failure in a case that draws on the whole course.
Internship agreement
An intern with this course could support a maintenance department in a manufacturing plant: preventive maintenance rounds, lubrication tasks and recording work orders in a CMMS. Under supervision, they could help trace faults on electrical drawings, check sensors, pneumatic circuits, belts and chains, and assist with lockout/tagout procedures.
The internship can run at the same time as the course, within the 180 days of access.
Frequently asked questions
What job does the Industrial Electromechanics course prepare me for?
The Industrial Electromechanics course is aimed at the role of maintenance technician on production lines. This role covers electrical cabinets, motors and VFDs, sensors, pneumatics and hydraulics, and mechanical drives such as gearboxes, belts, chains and conveyors. The course also covers the documentation side of the work: fault reports, CMMS work orders and OEE figures, as well as safe isolation of machines with lockout/tagout.
What could I actually do during the internship, and who finds the company?
You arrange the host company yourself, typically a manufacturing plant with a maintenance team. The school then issues the internship agreement and its annex, which the company signs electronically, usually within 1–2 working days. Suitable tasks include preventive maintenance and lubrication rounds, logging work orders, checking sensors and pneumatic circuits, and helping to trace faults on electrical drawings under supervision.
Which standards, regulations and tools does the course cover?
The course uses ISO 1219 symbols for pneumatic and hydraulic circuits and IEC 60617 symbols for electrical diagrams. You will practise with QElectroTech, a free, open-source drawing program. You will also study Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 on machinery, which applies from 20 January 2027, along with lockout/tagout, VFD parameters, CMMS work orders and the maintenance indicators OEE and MTBF.
Isn't reading electrical drawings the engineer's job rather than the technician's?
No. The course treats drawing-reading as a core technician skill. When the person who "just knows" the wiring is not on shift, the drawing is the only reliable source of information. You will learn to trace a signal from pushbutton to contactor coil and to find components by their standard designation, such as -KM1. You will also learn why guessing a symbol from its shape, or relying on terminal numbers alone, leads to mistakes.
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Content updated: 07/10/2026