Tests Performed During Fabrication of Clinker and Cement

Production testing exists to make decisions, not to fill a logbook. This week goes through the tests performed at each stage, the decision each supports, the frequency that matches how fast the process can drift, and the precision of the method against the tolerance being controlled. It covers chemical and physical testing, online analysis, and the specialist methods such as microscopy and diffraction that resolve questions routine testing cannot.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Name the tests performed at each production stage and their purpose.
• Match test frequency to the rate the process can drift.
• Judge whether a method's precision suits the tolerance.
• Use online analysis correctly alongside laboratory testing.
• Apply specialist methods when routine testing cannot answer.

Laboratory technicians and supervisors, quality and process engineers, production superintendents, and staff setting up a testing programme.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A testing schedule by stage, with the decision each test supports.
• A method precision review against control tolerances.
• A plan for when to escalate to specialist analysis.

A GATI certificate recording what you 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, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.