Skills
Diagnosing, repairing and improving industrial equipment reliability
Mechanics, electrical engineering, automation, vibration analysis, preventive planning and energy auditing: industrial maintenance keeps equipment available and energy under control. It is the trade that decides a plant's availability rate.
Anticipating failure rather than enduring it
An unplanned shutdown costs several times the price of the part replaced. All modern maintenance therefore works to move the intervention ahead of the failure: vibration measurement, thermography, oil analysis, running-hours tracking. That shift requires two kinds of knowledge at once — equipment technology, and the organisation that gets preventive work actually done. The programme builds both, from bearings to variable speed drives, and through to the site's energy audit.
- Diagnose a mechanical or electrical failure through measurement
- Run condition-based maintenance using vibration analysis
- Build a preventive plan and maintain it in a management system
- Produce an energy audit and propose quantified savings
The scale of the learning
You organise maintenance for a fleet of equipment and steer its availability through tracked indicators. Four figures are enough to place a skill: blocks, hours, credits and certified outlets.
- teaching blocks
- 5
- of taught instruction
- 960 h
- credits in total
- 96
- professional qualifications concerned
- 4
Catalogue rule: one credit is twenty-five hours of work, ten of them taught.
- Industrial Maintenance and Energy
- 960 (100 %)
Its place in the programmes
This table shows where the skill lives in the catalogue. It lets you check, before applying, that the volume matches your ambition.
| Teaching block | Programme | Taught hours | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanics and power transmission | Industrial Maintenance and Energy | 220 h | Year 1 |
| Electrical engineering and automation | Industrial Maintenance and Energy | 220 h | Year 1 |
| Diagnostics and condition monitoring | Industrial Maintenance and Energy | 200 h | Year 2 |
| Maintenance organisation | Industrial Maintenance and Energy | 160 h | Year 2 |
| Energy and efficiency | Industrial Maintenance and Energy | 160 h | Year 2 |
The roles that call for it
These professional qualifications target a named occupation. Their official framework carries this skill.
| Professional qualification | Target occupation | Level | Taught volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Maintenance Technician | maintenance technician | 4 · Skilled employee and operative | 800 h |
| Industrial Electrician | industrial electrician | 4 · Skilled employee and operative | 800 h |
| Senior Automation and Instrumentation Technician | industrial automation technician | 5 · Senior technician and supervisor | 800 h |
| Industrial Maintenance Manager | maintenance manager | 6 · Manager and professional | 800 h |
Which programme takes you there
The same professional act can be reached by several routes. Compare volume, duration and amount.
| Programme | Level | Duration | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Maintenance and Energy | Bachelor's degree | 2 years | 5 400 000 GNF per year |
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