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Basic Instrumentation Process Measurement & Control On-Site Training

This on-site training class is also available as Public Schedule Seminar.

Learn how to get desired results from your equipment and do away with the “Replace-part-when-broken” maintenance strategy

Course Description/Agenda

Purpose of Seminar:

Proper troubleshooting and maintenance of plant systems & equipment to reduce downtime and save money requires more than just replacing parts when they get broken. In fact, a “replace-part-when-broken” strategy for maintaining equipment is frequently the most expensive approach you can take. To be effective, maintenance technicians who fix equipment must know why a part needs to be changed out in the first place. Perhaps the real problem isn’t what he thinks it is!

In this seminar students will learn what, where and how to measure parameters for the proper monitoring and control of their equipment. When something breaks, they’ll now know why. With this understanding, they will be able to work much more efficiently on the industrial systems and processes for which they are responsible. A sound knowledge in instrumentation and control is certain to result in better-qualified technicians and less equipment failures. This course is designed to provide workers with the knowledge they need to keep your plant up and running as efficiently and inexpensively as possible.

Course Objectives:

Determine manipulated, controlled, and measured variables of typical industrial processes. Convert pressure, level, flow, or temperature variables into pneumatic or electrical values.

Identify electrical variables that are used by instruments to determine values.

Use and calibrate a variety of instruments and transmitters using ISA industrial consensus standard techniques.

Identify and use the ANSI/ISA-S5.1 consensus industrial standard process symbols.

Troubleshoot to the device level using the Process and Instrumentation Diagram and/or the Instrument Loop Diagram.

Perform required calculations to find typical process control parameters using a single loop controller configured in Proportional, Proportional and Integral, Proportional and Derivative, or Proportional and Integral and Derivative modes.

Use several different strategies to effectively tune a process controller.

Who should take this course:

This seminar is a must for anyone who works with manufacturing or process equipment in industrial settings. General maintenance personnel, workers in cross-training programs, electricians and engineers will find this course extremely valuable. Attendees come from a variety of industries, skill-levels, company sizes, and job titles, so if you're not sure you will fit in or will benefit from the class, don't worry - you will - as long as your job involves instrumentation, and process measurement & control! Some of the people who will benefit from attending this seminar include...

Maintenance Personnel In:

All Manufacturing Plants

Food, Beverage & Meat Processing Plants

Compressed Gasses

Packaging Plants

Building Facilities

Oil Refineries

Utilities

Power Plants

Pulp & Paper

Metals & Mining

Water Treatment Plants

Space & Defense

Including

Electricians

Mechanics

Engineers

Apprentices

Electronic Technicians

Machine Operators

Control Technicians

Schedule/Planners

HVAC Technicians

High Performance Work-team Members

Instrumentation Technicians

Plant Managers & Supervisors

and ANYONE involved in Multi-craft & Cross
Training Programs

What you will take home:

American Trainco Seminar Manual - detailing all presentation material covered in the class
Personalized Training Certificate with 1.4 American Trainco Continuing Education Units for each day attended, approved by the Maintenance Training Association of the Americas.
All the information you need from asking our instructors specific questions about your own equipment or facility

Course Outline / Agenda:

INTRODUCTION TO PROCESS CONTROL

On/Off

Proportional

Integral

Derivative

PNEUMATIC CONTROL

Operation of the nozzle and flapper value

Bellows receiver unit

ELECTRONIC CONTROL

Resistance

Capacitance

Inductance

Voltage

MEASUREMENT OF “PRESSURE”

Units and Pressure Standards

Construction and Operation of typical industrial
pressure instruments

Calibration of pressure transducers and transmitters

MEASUREMENT OF “LEVEL”

Units and Level Standards

Construction and Operation of typical industrial
level instruments

Calibration of level transducers and transmitters

MEASUREMENT OF “FLOW”

Units and Flow Standards

Construction and Operation of typical industrial
flow instruments

Calibration of flow transducers and transmitters

MEASUREMENT OF “TEMPERATURE”

Units and Temperature Standards

Construction and Operation of typical industrial
temperature instruments

Calibration of temperature transducers and
transmitters

SELECTED ANALYTICAL MEASUREMENTS

Electrical Conductivity

Chemistry 101

Acids

Bases

Redox Potentials

ORP Measurement

Ion Activity Measurement

INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CONTROL SYMBOLS

Understanding ANSI/ISA-S5.1 process
control symbols

Understanding and Drawing Process and
Instrumentation Diagrams

Understanding and Drawing Instrument Loop
Diagrams

Using process control diagrams to trouble-
shoot industrial control systems

CONTROL VALVES

Purpose and use of control valves, actuators,
and positioners.

Significance of valve coefficients and sizing
considerations.

PROPORTIONAL CONTROL CONCEPTS

First Order Lag calculations

How to calculate Dead Time

Adding Manual Reset to Proportional Control

Case Studies

PROPORTIONAL & INTEGRAL CONTROL CONCEPTS

Additional Process Dynamics

The dynamic behavior of control valves

Tuning PI controllers

Case Studies

PID CONTROLERS

Open Loop Tuning Methods

Closed Loop Tuning Methods

Case Studies

About our Instructors:

"Real World Training...for Real World

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TPC Trainco

Delivery Method
On-Site Training

Also Available As
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