Welcome to RCS Training.
Free to try. No email needed. Read this, decide if it’s worth more.
Here’s what you’re getting into.
We’ll walk through how it works, how it’s set up, and a sample module.
No email needed. The next part picks up where this one leaves off.
Three tracks. Fifty-three rungs. A catalog that keeps growing.
The tracks are External Corrosion, Internal Corrosion, and Coatings & Inspection. Each track is a ladder of rungs you climb — and every rung is a set of five to eight modules, three to six hours of work. Finish a rung, earn a printable certificate with PDH/CEC eligibility built in. Move up the ladder, earn the next. Climb the whole track, and you’ve earned every certificate it holds.
This isn’t a static library. The way Field Notes — our newsletter — adds an article every week, the catalog grows. Modules going live every week. New equipment shows up in the field, we cover it. New industry standards land, we update. New tracks get added when a topic earns its place.
You’re not buying a one-time download. You’re subscribing to something we’re still building.
Last new module added: April 28, 2026Internal Corrosion
Coatings & Inspection
Honestly, a training platform was never on our radar.
It started on LinkedIn in 2025 — a few weekly articles, some work pictures, things we thought were useful. Brand awareness, more or less. The response surprised us. Subscribers in the first month exceeded what we’d hoped for in six. People started asking for more.
So we moved to our own newsletter site. We added longer articles. We added paid tiers for deeper content. People still asked for more.
Some of those readers were asking for structured training — not articles, but a real ladder they could work through. We had years of training material already, built up from running private courses, speaking at industry conventions, and helping other companies put their own training together. Originally we figured we’d just publish more of it as articles. After some debate, we built it as proper training instead.
Same goal as everything we publish: to provide something useful.
This is what your training looks like.
Every paid module is a structured Course inside the platform. Read on the tablet. Listen on the way to the job. Apply what you learned. Quiz to lock it in. The chrome at the top personalizes — your name, your current module, today’s date. Once you’re set up, every screen shows it.
Internal Corrosion Coupons
- ✓ Read · Coupon types & lab workflow
- 2 Listen · Pulling and weighing a probe
- 3 Apply · Corrosion rate calculation
- 4 Reference · ASTM G1 · AMPP standards
- Q Quiz · 80% to pass
Internal Corrosion Coupons
Pulled from service, weighed in our on-site lab, analyzed in our SEM for pitting — the most direct measurement of internal corrosion in pipeline fluids. The number it gives you is the actual corrosion rate, not what the monitoring system thinks it is.
Corrosion technicians, working out of West Virginia.
We’re Roberts Corrosion Services — corrosion technicians out of West Virginia, working nationwide. Cathodic Protection systems. Internal corrosion. Coating inspection. We design, install, and maintain. We build our own rectifiers. We run our own laboratory. Heck, we even drill our own deep anode wells. We’ve been at it since 2011.
We see, and do, a lot of stuff. Some clients give us clear direction. Others ask us to figure something out. Across all of it, we’ve put together training materials — sometimes for our own techs, sometimes for client programs, sometimes for industry convention talks. We’ve helped other companies build training programs from the ground up.
Twenty-five-plus years of industry committee work sits behind this. So does a lot of fieldwork that didn’t go on a slide.
The corrosion industry is in a transition.
A generation of senior technicians is retiring. They’re taking with them the kind of knowledge that doesn’t live in textbooks — what a faulty rectifier sounds like, why a survey reading goes positive, how to spot a bad coating job from a mile out. The next generation is coming up the way most of us did: figuring it out in the field, hoping someone shows them the right way before they make a costly mistake.
There’s no shortage of training out there. Most of it is built for the certification exam — pass the test, get the credential, move on. That’s fine, as far as it goes. But what a working technician actually needs is the next morning’s job, and the morning after that, and the version of the standards that lands next quarter.
That’s what this is built for. Industry certifications come a few days a year — this is the other fifty weeks: live, kept current, and aimed at the morning’s job. It doesn’t replace your credentials; it keeps them sharp the rest of the year.
Fill the gap your mentor hasn’t gotten to yet.
Climb the ladder one rung at a time. By the end of Foundation, you can hold a real conversation about CP.
Every cert documents the hours.
PDH/CEC eligible. Five audit fields per cert. Auditable and verifiable — whether you’re logging renewal hours or prepping for the next exam.
Refresher on what’s changed.
New standards, new tools, new field methods. We keep pace. If we get something wrong, ping us — we’d rather hear about it.
Enroll your whole team on PO billing.
We work with utilities and operator clients via existing service agreements. No per-seat sign-ups — your company invoices ours.
Lesson 2 — the tour.
How the lessons work. How the certificate ladder works. How to listen to a module on the drive in.
Continue to Lesson 2 →