Holiday Inn Salford Quays
Only 7 mins walk to the Lowry
CPD Accredited Training Workshop: Understanding & Maintaining Rotating Machines
Venue & Travel Guide
27th & 28th November 2025
Introduces induction, Fleming’s rule, torque from magnetic flux, and DC, induction, synchronous, and wound-rotor machines, with a practical exercise.
Explores stator/rotor construction, cores, conductors, insulation, frames, and cooling. Participants classify components and learn how materials, design, and ventilation impact reliability and efficiency, with a practical exercise.
Examines winding types (random, formed-coil, Roebel-bar), insulation structures (turn, phase, groundwall, corona, stress grading), development of insulation materials, and the Arrhenius thermal-aging law linking temperature and lifespan.
Covers squirrel-cage and slip-ring rotor construction, torque classes, rotor bar integrity, and bearing design. Discusses causes of bearing wear, correct fits and clearances (C0–C4), lubrication selection, and reliability improvement practices.
Examines contamination, core degradation, end-winding discharge, grading-coat breakdown, and voltage-stress issues. Real-world examples show how environmental and design factors lead to insulation failure or core heating, and how to mitigate through proper cleaning, bracing, and material control.
Focuses on thermal ageing, loose windings, load cycling, high-resistance joints, and mechanical ageing of rotors and stators, linking damage to electrical, thermal, or mechanical causes and applying root-cause analysis for corrective actions.
Covers insulation and machine diagnostic tests (excluding PD), including IR/PI/DAR, DC Step Voltage, Tan Delta, Hi-Pot, Impedance Balance, EL-CID, Wedge-Tightness, End-Winding Resonance, and Current Spectrum Analysis, with focus on technique, safety, and data trending.
Covers partial discharge (PD) in high-voltage windings, including instrumentation, standards, inception/extinction voltage, test setups (off-line/on-line), coupling methods (HFCT, EMC, TVA), phase-resolved pattern analysis, acceptance criteria (IEC 60034-27 / IEEE 1434), and asset-health trending, with practical case studies of insulation deterioration in HV motors and generators.
The Lowry, Hexagon Room,
The Quays, Salford
M50 3AZ
Car park is available at our office
Only 10 mins walk from the office to the Lowry
Monitra Office:
128 Metroplex Business Park Broadway, MediaCity UK, Salford, M50 2UW
Parking is also available at
The Lowry Outlet Car Park, M50 3AH
Rates: Around £5-£8 for 4-6 hours
By Metrolink Tram
Nearest tram stop is the MediaCityUK
Only 5 mins walk to the Lowry
The Eccles line runs from Manchester City Centre to Eccles via Salford Quays, stopping directly in the heart of MediaCityUK. Trams run every 12 minutes and connect at Cornbrook for services to Altrincham, Didsbury, and Manchester Airport.
By Bus
Popular routes:
Number 50
Number 29
Check bus travel sites for the latest routes and timetables.
From Piccadilly Station:
Take the Eccles Line or MediaCityUK line tram
If taking the Eccles line, get off at MediaCityUK or Harbour City (Around 20 - 25 mins)
The Lowry is a 3-5 minute walk from the stop.
Only 7 mins walk to the Lowry
Only 8 mins walk to the Lowry
Only 10 mins walk to the Lowry