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SUMMARY:Technician Training Boot Camp (TTBC)
DESCRIPTION:5-Day Intensive Hands-on Training Curriculum \n\nInstrumentation Basics\nCalibration and Maintenance\nDigital (Smart) Transmitters\nControl Valves\, Positioners\, and DVCs\nTuning and Troubleshooting Control Systems\n\nDays: 4.5 \nCEUs: 3.6 \nPDHs: 36 \nISA Technician Training Boot Camp combines a unique technical training course with minimum lecture and maximum hands-on experience. Over 75% of your time will be spent on equipment labs! \nThis week of intensive training will cover a broad range of technical topics needed to get the job done right. Starting with basic instrumentation fundamentals and ending with the advanced and ultimate in smart technology\, this comprehensive program will serve as a vital building block to your professional development and skills enhancement efforts. This course also serves as a solid introduction to other ISA courses that will help you advance your automation and control career. \nThis course focuses on the knowledge required by a control systems technician with five years’ experience in performing maintenance\, calibration and troubleshooting tasks typical of a plant floor environment. It will test an individual’s skill sets and serve as a self-assessment of additional training needs and will: \n\nProvide a review of industrial measurement and control concepts and terminology\nReview and Refresh present skills\nIntroduce new skills\n\nWho Should Attend? \n\nTechnicians with instrument maintenance responsibilities\, and a good working knowledge of instrument fundamentals and terminology.\nInstrument supervisors needing to understand and evaluate the skill sets required to perform instrument maintenance tasks.\nReliability and maintenance engineers needing to learn and/or evaluate instrument maintenance processes.\n\n  \nCourse Objectives \n\nProvide an overview of industrial measurement and control in order to communicate appropriately with other control system professionals\nDefine a process to properly tune control loops\nPresent a systematic approach for troubleshooting and start-up of single- and multi-loop control loops to maintain good process control systems\nDescribe the operation and maintenance of pneumatic instruments employed in modern process facilities with an emphasis on valves\, positioners\, controllers\, and transmitters\nPerform proper installation\, calibration\, and maintenance of electronic instruments\nDeliver a working knowledge of smart field devices including both digital transmitters and digital valve controllers\n\nDAY 1: Instrumentation Basics \nYou Will Cover: \n\nConventional analog field devices: Sensor Technologies | Measurement Fundamentals | Standard Signals\nLoop Characteristics: Current Loop | Power Source\nSmart Field Devices: Current Practice | Typical Smart D/P Transmitter | Configurations\n\nClassroom/Laboratory Exercises: \n\nCalibrate process measurement devices\nCurrent loop construction and measurements\nConfigure smart transmitters\n\nYou Will Be Able To: \n\nDescribe the operation of a pneumatic differential pressure transmitters\nCalibrate a pneumatic d/p transmitter\nDescribe the operation of the 4-20 ma current loop\nPerform voltage and current measurements in a 4-20 ma current loop\nDescribe the operation of an electronic differential pressure transmitter\nCalibrate an electronic d/p transmitter\nDescribe the configuration process for a digital transmitter\nConfigure a digital transmitter\n\nDAY 2: Calibration and Maintenance \nYou Will Cover: \n\nTemperature Measurements and Sensor Fundamentals\nD/P Level Applications: Hydrostatic Head Level Measurement | Bubbler Level Measurement | Level Transmitter | Open and Closed Tank Installation | Remote Seals\nCalibration and Configuration: Configuring Smart Temperature Transmitters\n\nClassroom/Laboratory Exercises: \n\nCalculate span and range values for various level measurement applications\nCalibrate differential pressure\, RTD\, and thermocouple transmitters\nView a three-wire RTD demonstration and identify errors\nD/P Liquid Level Measurement with elevation/suppression applications\n\nYou Will Be Able To: \n\nConnect various transmitters for measurements of level\, flow\, and temperature\nCalculate measurement ranges for d/p level applications\nCalibrate various d/p transmitters for level measurements\nDescribe temperature measurements utilizing various sensors and transmitters\nCalibrate various temperature transmitters utilizing various sensors\n\nDAY 3: Digital (Smart) Transmitters \nYou Will Cover: \n\nAnalog vs. Digital Instruments: Analog Limitations | Calibration of Analog vs. Digital Instruments\nSerial Digital Communications: Modem | FSK | Protocol\nHART™ Communication: Features | Master/Slave | Point-to-Point | Capabilities of HART\n\nClassroom/Laboratory Exercises: \n\nConfigure digital transmitters and digital valve controllers and control valves\nPerform sensor trims and calibrations\nUse various communication tools to configure smart field devices\n\nYou Will Be Able To: \n\nDifferentiate between analog and digital instruments\nConfigure\, re-range\, and calibrate smart/digital field devices\nCommunicate with digital devices utilizing computer-based software\n\nDay 4: Control Valves\, Positioners\, and DVCs \nYou Will Cover: \n\nAnalog Positioners:  Operation of Analog Positioners | Calibration\nSmart Control Valves: Digital Positioners | Diagnostic Tools | Control Valve Tuning\nDiagnostics: Features | Capabilities\n\nClassroom/Laboratory Exercises: \n\nCalibrate and split-range analog positioners\nConfigure\, calibrate\, and split-range DVCs\nUse various communication tools to configure DVCs\nPerform diagnostic tests on smart control valves\n\nYou Will Be Able To: \n\nDifferentiate between analog and digital positioners\nConfigure\, split-range\, and calibrate analog positioners\nConfigure and calibrate control valves fitted with digital valve controllers\nCommunicate with DVCs utilizing computer-based software\nTest diagnostic capabilities of digital valve controllers\n\nDay 5: Tuning and Troubleshooting Control Systems \nYou Will Cover: \n\nReview of Feedback Control Concepts and Components: History of Control Operation | Concepts | Pictorial Representation | Disturbances in the Loop\nControl Modes: Proportional | Integral | Derivative\nIntroduction to Troubleshooting: Purpose of Troubleshooting | Reasons for Troubleshooting\nApproaches to Troubleshooting: Equipment History | Input/Output (Serial) | Shotgun Approach | Logical Analysis\nLogical Analysis Troubleshooting: Verify | Identify | Repair | Test | Follow-up on Problems\n\nClassroom/Laboratory Exercises: \n\nDemonstrate the operation of components required for closed loop control\nTune feedback control loops via a number of different methods\nTune using PC-based simulation software\nObserve operation and tuning of a feedback control loop\nDiagnose and solve problems with single-loop control loops\nTroubleshoot several single control loop problems\n\nYou Will Be Able To: \n\nDefine the concepts of PID control\nExplain component operation in a closed loop control system\nUse the trial-and-error methods to tune a control system for stated quality control\nDevelop a systematic approach to troubleshooting\nIdentify why a systematic approach to troubleshooting is most effective\nFollow specified procedures for proper loop check-out\nVerify\, locate\, and identify performance problems and the causes of the problems\n\nCourse Resources (included with registration) \nTextbook: Measurement and Control Basics\, Fifth Edition \nBy Thomas A. Hughes \nMore Ways to Learn \nWant to learn more about the topic? Check out these resources. \n  \nCalibration: A Technician’s Guide  \nBy Mike Cable \nFundamentals of Process Control Theory\, Third Edition \nby P.W. Murrill \nTroubleshooting: A Technician’s Guide\, Second Edition  \nBy William L. Mostia\, Jr.\, P.E.
URL:https://www.houstonisa.org/event/technician-training-boot-camp-ttbc-3/
LOCATION:Kenexis\, 15995 N Barkers Lndg Rd Ste 143 Houston\, TX 77079-2418\, Houston\, TX\, 77079-2418\, United States
CATEGORIES:Training,Technical-Training
ORGANIZER;CN="Glen Wood":MAILTO:glnwd15@gmail.com
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