DCS For Industrial Applications Course

Target Audience:

This program is targeting :

• Industrial, Commercial, Institutional
• Electrical Engineers Electrical Maintenance Tradespeople & Technicians
• Instrumentation And Control Engineers

Language: English/Arabic 

DCS For Industrial Applications Course Content :

DAY 1

Review of Process Control and Introduction to DCS

• Review of sensors, instrumentation, and process control systems
• Control Algorithms
             o Proportional (P)
             o Proportional and Integral (PI)
             o Proportional, Integral, and Derivative (PID)
• Distributed Control Systems: Introduction
• Overview, Features, Advantages, Where used
• Functions, Architecture, I/O, components,
• Hardware, software, system interfacing
• Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) – brief overview
• supervisory control and direct digital control
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) – brief overview
• DCS, PLC and SCADA compared

DAY 2

DCS Configuration and Networking

• Distributed Control Systems: Structure and Configuration
• DCS block diagrams, components, architecture, redundancy concepts
• DCS hardware configuration
• DCS Hardware & Software Internals
           o Process variables, software variables, tags
           o Human Machine Interface (HMI)
           o Alarms, Trends

           o Databases

 
• Basic DCS Controller Configuration
• Sequential Controllers for Batch Processing
• Controllers for Continuous Processes: Function Blocks
• Hierarchical Structure of control systems: ISA-95
• Data Communications and Networking
• Signal Transmission
• Physical Network Structures
• Logical Network Structures
• Communication Standards
• Fieldbus Operation: Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus
• Wide Area Network (WAN) communications: Modbus
• Control in the Field (CIF)
• DCS applications and case study (Oil & Gas)

DAY 3

HMI, Alarms, and DCS Operation

• Human Machine Interfaces: Introduction, features, requirements
• Plant mimic and animation
• DCS Operator Stations
• Interface Categories
• Recorders, Loggers, Trend Displays, and Data Archiving
• HMI in the Control Room and in the Field: Mobile and remote devices
• Alarm Management
          o Key Requirements
          o Alarm System Functions
• Alarms phylosophy, control & Management
• Development and Applications, Logs, trends and reports
• DCS Operation
• Operational view of DCS
• Role of operators
• Integration and Optimization of DCSs
• DCS Configuration
• DCS Integration

DAY 4

Maintenance and Troubleshooting

• Maintenance Considerations
• Maintenance Requirements: System and Components
• Procedure for Checking Control Loop Calibration
• Identify proper tools and test equipment for troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
• Proper troubleshooting methods
• Identify typical communication malfunctions and faults
• Identifying failures, malfunctions, and faults
• Diagnostics through DCS Modules, and Programs (code)
• Diagnostics through Internal internal Variables and Bits of DCS
• Diagnostics of Communication faults

DAY 5

• Advanced Process Controllers
         o Feed forward Control
         o Cascade Control
         o Statistical Process Control
• Basics of advanced process control and optimization
• Latest DCS Trends
          o Monitoring and control in the Field
          o Industrial Internet
          o Internet of Things
          o Mobile and remote devices
• Cloud Processing
         o Monitoring and control in the Cloud

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