Distributed Control CD-ROMs

Distributed Control CD-ROM Courses

The following interactive multimedia CD-ROMs are available on the topic of distributed control and controller tuning. The following 3 courses are available to choose from:

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Distributed Control: Distributed Control Fundamentals CD-ROM

Duration: 4 hours (includes 1 test)

Audience: This program is excellent for training technicians, operators, control practitioners and engineers as well as for the multicraft training needs of process and manufacturing facilities. This lesson is designed for participants familiar with process operations, digital electronic theory, and test instruments and devices.

What Students Learn: This comprehensive INVOLVE® interactive multimedia training program was produced in association with the Instrument Society of America (ISA). This program, consisting of two lessons, trains participants in distributed contra techniques, architecture and hardware, as well as in the methods used to maintain and troubleshoot distributed control systems.

This lesson provides an understanding of the fundamentals of Distributed Control Systems (DCS). The evolution of computer control systems is discussed and the architecture of contemporary DCS is described in detail. The lesson covers hardware, configuration, data communications, user interface and I/O devices.

After completing the lesson, the learner will be able to:

    •   Describe direct digital control.
•   Describe a supervisory control system.
•   Identify an advantage of supervisory control over direct digital control.
•   Describe a distributed control system.
•   Identify the advantages of DCS.
•   Identify some of the control functions of a distributed control system.
•   Explain DCS terminology.
•   Explain hardware requirements for distributed control systems.
•   Describe how control loops are implemented in a DCS.
•   Explain communications between modules and external devices.
•   Describe two types of data transmission.
•   Explain how signal integrity is maintained.
•   Define system interfacing.
•   Define communication protocols and their function in data transmission.
•   Name two primary types of human interface.
•   Describe DCS input devices and describe types of available displays.

Special Notes: This training program is delivered by multimedia CD-ROM and can be accessed on a stand alone PC or in a networked learning center.

Distributed Control: Distributed Control Fundamentals CD-ROM - $349.95

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Distributed Control: Maintaining Distributed Control Systems CD-ROM

Duration: 4 hours (includes 1 test)

What Students Learn: This comprehensive INVOLVE interactive multimedia training program was produced in association with the Instrument Society of America (ISA). This program, consisting of two lessons, trains participants in distributed contra techniques, architecture and hardware as well as in the methods used to maintain and troubleshoot distributed control systems.

This lesson introduces the general maintenance requirements of a distributed control system (DCS). It covers troubleshooting techniques using DCS self-diagnosis and the various diagnostic displays available to the technician, as well as safe and proper component replacement procedures for cards, modules and power supplies. The lesson also covers DCS peripheral equipment including disk and tape drives and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS).

After completing the lesson, the learner will be able to:

    •   Identify proper tools and test equipment for troubleshooting.
•   Interpret diagnostic software from the operating console and the engineering workstation.
•   Demonstrate proper troubleshooting methods.
•   Identify typical communication malfunctions.
•   List symptoms of communication faults.
•   Identify a proper cable connection.
•   List indications of power supply failure.
•   Check power supply voltages.
•   List indications of workstation failure.
•   Identify I/O failures.
•   Demonstrate safe removal and replacement of cards.
•   Demonstrate proper replacement card set up.
•   Explain I/O module configuration.
•   Demonstrate safe power supply removal.
•   Set power supply voltages.
•   Explain how signal integrity is maintained.
•   Describe proper communication cable replacement.
•   Perform a redundancy check.
•   Clean a disk drive.
•    Explain the importance of and general procedure for backing up data and list UPS preventive checks.

Special Notes: This training program is delivered by multimedia CD-ROM and can be accessed on a stand alone PC or in a networked learning center.

Distributed Control: Maintaining Distributed Control Systems CD-ROM - $349.95

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Controller Tuning CD-ROM

Duration: 4 hours

Audience: This program is excellent for training technicians, operators, control practitioners and engineers as well as for the multicraft training needs of process and manufacturing facilities. This lesson is designed for participants familiar with the basics of instrument control including the proportional, integral, and derivative control modes.

What Students Learn: This comprehensive INVOLVE® interactive multimedia training program was produced in association with the Instrument Society of America (ISA). This one lesson program trains participants in three methods of controller tuning and the various steps needed to be taken in each method.

This lesson explains tuning methods and principles behind the three methods of tuning a controller: ultimate, reaction curve, and trial and error. The lesson presents the characteristics of a properly timed process response and relates these to proportional, integral, and derivative control actions. In addition, step-by-step procedures for tuning controllers using each method are demonstrated.

After completing the lesson, the learner will be able to:

    •   Define controller tuning and its purpose as used in a process control system.
•   Define a process response.
•   Explain the significance of a 1/4 decay reaction curve.
•   Perform the preliminary steps for tuning a controller.
•   Stabilize a process on manual control before using the ultimate method.
•   Obtain the value of and calculate the proper setting for a proportional band or gain.
•   Find the value of the ultimate period.
•   Calculate the proper settings for PI, PD, and PID controllers.
•   Verify adjustments.
•   Obtain and interpret a process reaction curve.
•   Calculate the process gain, dead time, time constant, and controller settings using the reaction
     curve method.
•   Interpret a process response to determine the proper setting.
•   Tune the proportional mode, using the trial and error method.

Special Notes: This training program is delivered by multimedia CD-ROM and can be accessed on a stand alone PC or in a networked learning center.

Controller Tuning CD-ROM - $349.95

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