Training built by position, Technician to Chief Engineer.
Every module is a full lecture with drawn figures, a 100-question bank and a knowledge check that has to be passed. Study on your own, or run your whole crew from one company account.
Add the Virtual Bench and put it into practice: run each module's drills on live plant systems, from start-ups and changeovers to finding faults against the clock. The knowledge check proves you know it. The Bench proves you can do it.
Watch the tour
About six minutes, every feature start to finish: the positions and plans, a full module lecture, the knowledge check, the Virtual Bench boiler room, drills and case studies, exam prep, the Alpha 360 certification, Field Tools and the company admin screen.
Recorded on the live training site with example accounts. Narrated, with captions on screen.
270 modules covering the whole plant
Every system a critical facility runs on, taught as a full lecture with drawn figures, worked numbers, a field checklist and a 100-question bank behind every knowledge check. Each position includes the modules for that level and every level below it.
Electrical & critical power
Utility service and medium-voltage switchgear, transformers, transfer switches, standby generators, UPS, batteries and lithium-ion safety, PDUs, motor control and grid ride-through.
Cooling & HVAC
Water-cooled and air-cooled chillers, cooling towers, CRAH and CRAC units, airflow and containment, humidity control, economizers and direct-to-chip liquid cooling.
Pumps, motors & rotating equipment
Pumps and hydronic systems, horizontal split-case teardown and inspection, compressors, bearings and lubrication, couplings, vibration and drive-induced shaft currents.
Boilers & steam
Hot-water and steam boilers, trim and safety controls, combustion and flame safeguards, feedwater and condensate, steam traps, start-up, lay-up and boiler rounds.
Water treatment & chemistry
Loop chemistry, cooling-tower water management, boiler water treatment and blowdown, coolant quality for liquid-cooled equipment, reverse-osmosis make-up water and demineralized water plants.
Data center plant hardware
Chilled-water piping, valves and separators, plate and shell-and-tube heat exchangers, busway and busbar, racks, raised floor and cable management, and humidifier hardware.
Power generation
Gas and steam turbines, turbo-generators and lube oil, HRSGs and condensers, high-pressure steam piping, draft fans and stacks, emissions control, solid fuel and ash, generator electrical, fuel gas compression and demineralized water.
Pipeline compressors & pumps
Centrifugal and reciprocating gas compressors, crude oil pipeline pumps and multiphase pumps: how a station runs, what to read and how they fail.
Controls, instruments & plant fundamentals
BMS and BAS, power monitoring, PLC and SCADA, sensors and calibration, P&IDs, valves and actuators, interlocks and relief devices.
Fire, life safety, fuel & auxiliaries
Detection and alarm, suppression and EPO, confined space, fall protection, chemical safety, diesel fuel systems, compressed air and diesel engines.
Reliability & maintenance
Rounds and readings, PM programs, criticality, failure modes, condition monitoring, outage data and root cause.
Operations & shift leadership
Lockout/tagout, MOPs and change management, shift turnover, emergency procedures, abnormal operations and incident command on the floor.
Facility management
Budgets and capital planning, risk and business continuity, projects and commissioning, vendors, audits, quality and leading people.
Trade licensing, codes & exam prep
Refrigerant handling, A2L safety, mechanical and electrical codes, conductor sizing, electrical safety, and stationary engineer and boiler operator prep.
See every module by position →
Technician to Chief Engineer, with the full module list for each.
Every module carries its own sources, so you can check the rule or the study behind the lesson.
More than a course library
Most training stops at a slide deck and a quiz. Alpha 360 takes you from your first round to running the plant, then proves it.
Alpha 360 certification
Six levels, Technician to Chief Engineer: every module passed at 100% and a timed 100-question exam. Stored with a control number employers can verify.
IncludedDrills & cases
50 drill scenarios, 51 tabletop exercises and 50 investigated incident case studies to practise the bad day before it happens.
IncludedField Tools
Trade calculators for HVAC, boilers and electrical, plus a rounds and turnover log, on any phone or tablet.
Add-onVirtual Bench
Eleven live plant systems and 89 graded drills opened straight from the modules. The knowledge check proves you know it; the Bench proves you can do it.
Built by licensed plant engineers who have stood the watch
Alpha 360 Critical Facilities Training was built by licensed and certified Stationary Engineers, Class I Boiler Operators, HVAC and Electrical Journeymen, I&E Technicians, Reliability Engineers, and HSE Professionals: experienced professionals who have operated and maintained central plants serving data centers and other critical facilities, with expertise in reliability, commissioning, startup, and process safety. Every module is written, checked, and sourced by professionals who have done the work.
Taught. Tested. Proven.
Every module teaches the way a plant is operated. Knowledge checks make you apply it. The Virtual Bench add-on puts you in a practical environment: dynamic plant systems training with incidents on a timed clock. An Alpha 360 certification is not a certificate of completion. It is earned.
One platform, two kinds of account
For individuals
Pick the position you are working toward. You get that position and every position below it.
- Your own login on any device; progress follows you
- Lectures, figures and knowledge checks for every module in your positions
- A certificate for each position you complete
- Move up a position whenever you're ready
For companies
Seats for your crew at each person's position rate, with volume discounts. Your Facility Manager runs it.
- Seats owned by the company, reassignable when people leave
- Assign each person a position and an entry point
- A reporting dashboard by site and shift, with audit export
- Records stay with the company when people move on
Lectures you can actually learn from
Each module is written as a lecture, not a slide summary: why the system matters, how it is built, how it fails, what the standards expect, and what to do on Monday.
- Eight drawn figures per module, numbered and explained
- 100-question bank in seven sections, from recall to analysis
- Knowledge check of 20 questions, drawn fresh on every attempt; every answer must be right to pass
- Situation tables and worked numbers for real decisions on shift
- Field checklist to take to the plant
From sign-up to certificate
Create an account
Just you, or your company. Takes a minute.
Choose a position
Individuals pick a plan. Companies assign positions to each employee.
Study and pass
A module completes only when its knowledge check is passed.
Earn the certification
Finish a position's requirements and pass its exam to earn that level of Alpha 360 Certified Critical Facilities.
Ready when your shift is
Start on your own today, or set your crew up this week.