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Free pneumatics and hydraulics course with certificate

Fluid power from first principles to relay control, free and complete: air preparation, cylinders, valves, circuits, FluidSIM, pumps, hydraulic valves and design calculations, with notes, quizzes and an optional verifiable certificate.

15 modules · 27h 34m of video · Updated 1 November 2026
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Industrial Pneumatics and Hydraulics

A beginner course in pneumatics and hydraulics: read symbols, size cylinders, simulate in FluidSIM. Free to learn; the certificate is optional and paid.

  • Compare pneumatics and hydraulics and prepare air correctly
  • Select and size cylinders, valves and vacuum
  • Design direct, indirect, logic and sequencing circuits and simulate them
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What this leads to

Internship

Commissioning and Maintenance

Free internship: 4 weeks, a free certificate and nothing to buy. The Engineer-verified internship adds an engineer's review and the graded certificate.

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Lab

Electrical lab

Practise in your browser. Free, nothing to install.

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Roles

Maintenance

Roles that ask for this skill, 283 open in this country now. Free to see and to apply. We are not a recruitment agency.

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Practise what you learn in the free 3D lab

Technical work is judged on what you can do: wiring, commissioning, finding a fault. Doing a task yourself teaches more than watching it a second time, and a lab lets you try it safely before you meet real equipment. It does not replace working on real hardware.

Questions

Is FluidSIM required?
The free demo is enough.
Do I need a pneumatics trainer kit?
No. Circuits are drawn and simulated in free tools such as FluidSIM demo and the concepts are shown on real cylinders and valves in the videos.