Develop Your Skills with Our Specialist Training Courses
Through our training courses, we help you to develop the skills and knowledge you need to enhance your materialographic processes, reduce the time spent, improve quality, and ensure the efficient use of equipment and consumables. We also help you to develop the skills you need to solve future challenges.
Materialographic training courses
In our materialographic training courses, we combine theoretical understanding of the materialographic process with a practical approach, focusing on choosing and using suitable equipment and techniques to support the requirements of sample preparation and examination. We also offer specific courses on hardness testing and microscopy. This provides you with a full range of training to choose from – covering the entire materialographic process, from cutting to sample analysis and verification.
Our TPM (The Professional Materialographer) training courses cover the entire materialographic process, from cutting to sample analysis and verification.
The Professional Materialographer Courses
TPM Lectures
The Professional Materialographer Lectures are a full day of classroom teaching, covering everything from cutting, mounting, grinding, and polishing to hardness testing and microscopy. Relative beginners will learn the basics, while experienced materialographers will have the chance to fill in any blanks and improve their understanding. The course will provide you with a basis for implementing new or improved materialographic processes and methods in your lab – and a clear understanding of how Struers Application Services can help you to implement changes.
What You Get
Theoretical basics in:
- Wet abrasive cutting
- Hot and cold mounting
- Method selection
- Mechanical preparation
- Electrolytic preparation
- Etching and microscopy
- Hardness testing
How You Benefit
Increased theoretical knowledge helps you to:
- Better understand terminology and instructions;
- Implement new or improved materialographic processes and methods in your lab;
- Make the correct choice regarding consumables and parameters;
- Avoid preparation damage on samples and machines; and
- Connect with peers in the materialographic field.
TPM Basic
The Professional Materialographer Basic is a two-day intensive course in materialography, combining theory and practical work in cutting, mounting, grinding and polishing, hardness testing, and microscopy.
What You Get
You get everything in the TPM Lectures, plus:
- Practical exercises that take you through selection and hands-on use of equipment and consumables;
- The chance to discuss issues and challenges with other professional materialographers;
- Practical demonstrations of methods and techniques;
- Tips and tricks for improving preparation results and workflow in your lab;
- Practical experience of method selection; and
- Hands-on experience with standard samples.
How You Benefit
You get all the benefits of the TPM Lectures, plus you:
- Learn how to understand the latest theory in a practical context;
- See your own tasks in a new perspective and better understand your work and challenges;
- Learn how to implement small changes and improve procedural steps;
- Get ideas for how to optimize your use of equipment and consumables and improve your methods; and
- Learn how to implement process improvements in your lab – including the latest techniques and methods – to save time and costs, improve quality, or increase safety.
TPM Plus
The Professional Materialographer Plus is a three-day course, including classroom presentations and practical exercises in cutting, mounting, grinding and polishing, hardness testing, and microscopy. On the last day, you work with your own material samples.
What You Get
You get everything in the TPM Basic, plus:
- Expert advice on how to work with your own samples;
- A ready-to-use optimized/new method for your samples; and
- Practical tips and tricks on how to improve preparation results and workflow in your lab.
How You Benefit
You get all the benefits of the TPM Basic, plus you:
- Work on process improvements in a state-of-the-art lab, assisted by Struers specialists;
- Save time and costs by implementing improved methods in your lab;
- Learn how to solve your specific challenges;
- Learn how to get more from your equipment by using new techniques and features; and
- Improve quality by learning how to reveal the true structure of your materials.
TPM Advanced
The Professional Materialographer Advanced is a four-day training course that combines troubleshooting on specimen preparation with microscopy and structural analysis. It uses real-life cases to give you theoretical and practical training in how to solve materialographic challenges in your own lab.
What You Get
- Theoretical knowledge of and practical training in microscopy
- Training in how to identify preparation artefacts and solve artefact issues
- Practical advice on how to analyze your own samples
- Theoretical knowledge of and practical training in etching and contrasting techniques
How You Benefit
- Learn how to quickly identify and resolve preparation artefacts
- Improve your use of your own microscope
- Improve preparation efficiency by learning how to integrate microscopy into preparation
- Save time and costs with faster troubleshooting in your own lab
- Learn how to identify, understand, and address future issues in your lab
- Learn how to solve problems quickly on your own
- Remove trial and error from your process with the implementation of systematic and to-the-point problem solving
- Reduce your reliance on outside experts for future problem solving
TPM Own samples
The Professional Materialographer Lab is a one-day workshop in which Struers experts help you to prepare and work with your own samples.
What You Get
- Intensive hands-on experience of working with your own samples
- A ready-to-use optimized/new method for your samples
- Practical tips and tricks on how to improve preparation results and workflow in your lab
How You Benefit
- Work on process improvements in a state-of-the-art lab, assisted by Struers specialists
- Save time and costs by implementing improved methods in your lab
- Learn how to solve your specific challenges
- Learn how to get more from your equipment by using new techniques and features
- Improve quality by learning how to reveal the true structure of your materials