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LAST UPDATED 09.21.2026

TRAINING & OPERATION

WHAT TRAINING IS

Operator training is a minimum of three consecutive days on your floor, on your machine, run by a working operator. It is required with every system. The written exam is on day one, before anyone enters the lab. Five days is what we recommend, because days four and five are where a crew goes from competent to fast, and where the outputs that take more than a day of post-processing get run end to end.

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TRAINED BY AN OPERATOR

Aaron Romo runs your training. He managed and ran operations at Dr. Jolly's, one of the largest producers Oregon has had, and he works in an extraction lab today. Since 2016 he has run an N.B. Oler system every day.

That last part is the one that matters. Your trainer is not a demo operator who learned the machine for the class. He runs this equipment for a living, on the same valves and the same sequence your crew is about to learn, and he has been doing it for ten years.

Nathaniel Oler, who engineers and builds the systems, trains alongside him on some installs and is on the phone for the rest.

WHO IS IN THE ROOM
Aaron Romo, lead trainer, working extraction operator
Ran operations at Dr. Jolly's
On an N.B. Oler system daily since 2016
Nathaniel Oler, engineers and builds the systems
On some installs in person, on the phone for the rest
Five or six of your operators, maximum
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CURRICULUM

DAY ONE
CLASSROOM, EXAM, THEN FIRST SOLVENT
The morning is in the classroom. Hydrocarbon behavior, LEL alarms, emergency shutdown, lockout, and the written exam. The exam is taken and passed on day one, before anyone walks into the lab, not at the end of the week. The afternoon is hands on the machine: leak check, pressure test the assembled system, pull it down under vacuum, and bring the first solvent in.
REQUIRED
DAY TWO
FIRST PRODUCTION RUN, TEACHING PACE
A full production run, deliberately slow. Every valve called out in order: what it does, why it opens when it does, and what you would see if it were wrong. Your operators turn the valves, not us. The pace ramps steadily through the day as the crew gets its hands in. Day two outputs are the straightforward ones, waxes, badder and budder.
REQUIRED
DAY THREE
RUN IT FASTER, ADD THE PRODUCTS
Faster runs, ramping toward real production speed, until the crew is comfortable on the machine. Post-processing opens up here: shatter, waxes, badder, budder, diamonds, live resin, whatever the owner or manager decides the crew needs to be able to make. Diamonds and live resin are only taught from day three on.
REQUIRED
DAYS FOUR AND FIVE
PRODUCTION SPEED, AND THE OUTPUTS THAT TAKE DAYS
Optional, and the two days most crews wish they had booked. Full production speed, and the full range of outputs run on your material until the crew can hit them without being walked through it. These are also the days that cover the outputs whose post-processing runs past a single session, diamonds and live resin among them, because you cannot start and finish one of those inside an afternoon. Booking four and five is the only way the crew sees those through end to end with us in the room. Full days only. There is no half-day version of this.
OPTIONAL
Days one, two and three cannot be split. Each one builds directly on the day before it: same crew, consecutive days, no exceptions. Days four and five are optional, and they are full days. There are no half-day modules.
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PRODUCT OUTPUTS

SHATTER
WAXES
BADDER
BUDDER
DIAMONDS
LIVE RESIN
CRUDE

Run on your material, on your machine. Waxes, badder and budder start on day two. Diamonds and live resin are only taught from day three on, and because their post-processing carries over into the following day, days four and five are where a crew actually sees one finished. Which outputs your crew learns is the owner or manager's call.

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CERTIFICATION

Every operator who passes the written exam on day one and completes the three required days receives a signed operator certificate. Some AHJs and insurers ask for them at inspection, proof that the people at the panel were trained on this specific machine by its manufacturer. Keep them posted in the extraction room.

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SITE READINESS

Commissioning checklist filled out and returned to us before we book travel
C1D1 room approved and powered
Chiller, vacuum and nitrogen on site and plumbed
Solvent and material on hand from day one
Crew on site every day, the same people, every day
Browse the public technical library → The commissioning checklist ships with your system. SCHEDULE 2+ WEEKS AHEAD
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SCHEDULING & TERMS

WHO MUST ATTEND
Anyone who runs the system. Five or six operators maximum, so everyone gets hands on the valves.
MINIMUM
Three days on site.
RECOMMENDED
Five days. Four and five are where production speed and the longer post-processing outputs get learned.
BEFORE WE TRAVEL
The commissioning checklist has to be filled out and returned. We do not book travel until it is back.
RATE
$3,500 per day.
WHERE
We travel anywhere.
BOOKING
Two weeks out minimum, so the site is ready when we land.
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WARRANTY & MODIFICATIONS

WHAT THE WARRANTY COVERS

Manufacturing defects in materials and workmanship for one year from delivery, weld failure included. If a weld, a fitting or a vessel fails because of how we built it, we fix it. Damage from user error or over-pressurization is not a manufacturing defect and is not covered. The training exists so it does not happen.

MODIFICATIONS POLICY

Want to change something? Call us first. Most requests are a quick engineering review, and approved changes keep every stamp intact. Unauthorized modifications void the third-party certifications on the vessel and require a full re-review before it can legally run again. That is how pressure-vessel certification works, for every manufacturer.

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REQUEST TRAINING

Tell us what you are running and who is running it, and we can come back with dates and what your three to five days should actually cover.

WHO YOU ARE
THE SYSTEM

We train on your machine, on your floor. What it is and where it stands decides how the three days run.

The checklist has to be back with us before we book travel. If you have not seen one, say so and we will send it.

YOUR CREW
WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN

Waxes, badder and budder start on day two. Diamonds and live resin are only taught on days three, four and five, so wanting those sets your minimum.

Fields marked * are required. Two weeks out is the minimum notice, and the commissioning checklist has to be back with us before we book travel.