Oil Hydraulic and Pneumatic professions can meet in various environments:
- Systems or machine manufacturers ordinate integrator .
- Industrial users of these machines or this equipment (cf.: application fields below) .
- Manufacturers of Oil Hydraulic and Pneumatic components .
- Industrial distributors, importers .
- Engineering, planning department and counsel .
- Industrial maintenance .
- Department of Education, continuous education organisations, research centres.
This is a sector in which many research laboratories find always-new applications and improve continually the systems' performance. Gives careers with good prospects, using state-of-the-art of technologies.
Fluid power applications
Using fluid power to transport, excavate, lift materials, to control and power mobile vehicles, e.g.:
| Tractors | Tippers and tail lifts for commercial vehicles |
| Diggers | Road maintenance vehicles |
| Truck brakes and suspension | Fork-lift trucks |
| Excavators and cranes | etc ... |
Industrial :
Using fluid power to control and power industrial machinery, e.g.
| Plastics machinery | Assembly equipment |
| Machine tools | Steel works and mining plant and equipment |
| Food processing machinery | Petrochemical and chemical process |
| Robots and automatic handling equipment |
Other applications:
| Automotive: suspension, brakes, steering |
| Aerospace: rudders, ailerons, aircraft servicing, flight simulators |
| Marine: drives and control of ships |
| Off-shore: oil-rig and sub-sea inspection equipment |
| Civil engineering: dams and bridges |
| Theatre and leisure: stage controls, fairground and leisure park rides |
| Medical: hospital beds and operating tables |
| Didactics material: test bed |
| Railways |
EDUCATION
These professions need specific education, widely dispensed within many educational establishments. These organisations grow stronger and compete with one another regularly, witness to dynamism and development of the profession. The UNITOP and its members take part actively in the draftings and the development of these programs, either by permanent contact with the Department of Education, or in the field, through public or private education..
(PRIMARY) EDUCATION
The Department of Education dispenses many programmes comprising the teaching of Oil Hydraulics and Pneumatics:
1 Vocational diploma (BEP -level V-) .
- 11. Maintenance of Automated Mechanical Systems; .
- 12. Mechanical Production Engineering;
- 13. Implementation of materials;
2. Professional Degree (BAC PRO -level IV-) .
- 21. Piloting of Automated Production Systems; .
- 22. Maintenance and Exploitation of Agricultural Material, Public Works, Parks and Gardens; .
- 24. Maintenance of Automated Mechanical Systems
3. Vocational training certificate (B.T.S.-level III-) .
- 311. Production Engineering of moulded alloys; .
- 312. Automotive Maintenance and Aftersales; .
- 313. Maintenance and Exploitation of Aeronautic Materials; .
- 314. Production Engineering; .
- 315. Industrial Maintenance; .
- 316. Mechanical and Industrials Automation
32. Qualification Awarded after a two years course of study in technology for Mechanical and Production Engineering Engineers (DUT)
33. IUP Mechanical Engineers (Génie Mécanique) Bordeaux 1 - Evry Val d'Essonne - Brest Bretagne Occidentale.
Complementary education in Oil Hydraulics and Pneumatics