This isn’t back-to-school.
Understanding power quality with VFDs on real sites
The last 10–20% of VFD and “understanding power quality” is often parked in the “too hard” box and taught mainly through equations.
We take a different approach to teaching it, and find that people can still grasp what’s going on, even if they’d never want to write the equations that define the events.
How we teach it differently
Sometimes you just need to see things differently
Your team spends time with someone who’s spent years designing drives and power electronics, making the invisible stuff visible and open to investigation.
We take the fear out of “all that physics” by starting with things everyone can see and touch, then explaining what’s happening in a way that leaves people realising they’ve just done more than they thought they were capable of.
What the day actually feels like
The day is usually full of humour and simple-looking exercises that add up to something genuinely powerful. The subject can be complex; the way you learn it doesn’t have to be.
People can expect:
- a friendly floor – there are no such things as “silly questions”
- plenty of straight talk and patient explanation
- simple demos that build up to real insight
The goal isn’t to turn your team into academics. It’s to give them a feel for what’s going on so that the next time something trips, they’re curious and confident instead of stuck.
Training plus mentoring
This is real-world for your electricians and plant team, not an abstract, esoteric topic they’ll never use.
Our preferred approach is to mix training with mentoring: a day based in a room, followed by agreed days on site, working alongside your people on the actual lines they’re responsible for.
Key aspects of the VFD skills shortage
- Modern VFDs are technically demanding to configure, integrate (PLC / IIoT) and fault-find, and automation has grown faster than the pool of people who can do that work well.
- Sites rely on skilled specialists not just for installation, but for ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting – and when they’re unavailable, costs and downtime climb.
- Demand is rising fast as VFD use grows for energy and sustainability reasons, but many experienced engineers are retiring and their knowledge isn’t being passed on effectively.
- Classroom-only courses don’t stick; the real gap is in applied, on-the-job learning with real tools and real plant, backed by structured training, mentoring and updated curricula.
- For anyone entering or moving up in this field, hands-on troubleshooting skills with oscilloscopes and multimeters are now one of the most valuable assets they can bring.