Cement Manufacturing
Cement Plant Operations
Advanced Cementing Practices Training
Advanced practice across cement production: stability, optimisation and the problems that resist routine fixes.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Advanced
- Fee from
- On enquiry
Overview
This week is for people who have solved the ordinary problems and are left with the persistent ones. It covers advanced process stability and control strategy, the volatile cycles and build up problems that recur despite good operation, alternative fuel and raw material use at high substitution, and the data analysis needed to see a pattern in plant history. It expects participants to bring a real problem, and the week is partly built around working on them.
Who should attend
Experienced process engineers, plant and production managers, technical services leads, and consultants supporting cement operations.
What you will be able to do
- Diagnose persistent instability rather than its symptoms.
- Manage volatile cycles and recurring build ups.
- Push alternative fuel substitution without losing control of the kiln.
- Use plant historian data to find patterns.
- Structure an improvement programme that holds.
How it is taught
Short input, then work, across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each. Exercises run on situations delegates bring rather than on a case study written for a different organisation. Cohorts are capped so that everybody is asked something.
Available as classroom, in house.
Programme outline
Day 1
Stability
- What instability actually costs
- Control strategy and loop tuning
- Advanced and expert control systems
Day 2
Persistent problems
- Alkali, sulphur and chloride cycles
- Build ups, rings and blockages
- Refractory life and shell protection
Day 3
Alternative fuels
- High substitution and its process effects
- Feeding, metering and homogeneity
- Emissions and product quality consequences
Day 4
Data
- Historian data and its quality
- Finding correlations that mean something
- Dashboards that get used
Day 5
Programmes
- Framing an improvement programme
- Resourcing and ownership
- Holding a gain once it is made
What you leave with
- A diagnosis of a real problem brought to the week.
- A control strategy review.
- An improvement plan with measurement built in.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Accra, Ghana | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Windhoek, Namibia | Classroom | R15,000 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Maseru, Lesotho | Classroom | R15,000 |
Fees are per delegate and cover tuition, all programme materials and the certificate. Travel, accommodation and visas are arranged by the delegate. Registration closes two weeks before a programme starts.
Certificate
A GATI certificate recording what was attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended. Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record.
It records participation. and GATI does not claim one it does not hold.