Instrumentation, Automation, and Control Academy
Foundations and Practical Workplace Applications
Module 1: Introduction to Instrumentations
This, up to 40-hours of training, will provide an introduction to instrumentation and major topics covered will be:
- Safety, hand tools, calibrators
- Instrumentation Air Supply Systems/Identification Symbols
- Pressure Measurement
- Flow Measurement and Flow Instruments
- Level Measurement
Module 2: Introduction to Control
This, up to 32-hours of training, covers temperature instruments and measurement, analytical measurement and control, control loops, and loop tuning.
- Overview of temperature measurement
- Thermowells – selection and use
- Temperature transmitters and switches
- Thermocouple vs resistance temperature detector (RTD)
- Overview of analytical measurements
- Types of probes
- Transmitters (pneumatic, electronic, and smart)
- Overview of control function considerations
- Control modes (on-off, modulating, PID control)
- Control types (feedback, cascade, ratio, feedforward)
- Controller tuning (automatic, manual)
- Open loop/closed loop
- Description of process
- Description of PID units
- Ziegler Nichols and Lambda tuning techniques
- Calculate initial PID settings
- Tune loops
Module 3: Automation Control
This, up to 32-hours of training, covers final control elements, PLC and DCS Systems, and analog and microprocessor-based controllers.
- Valve positioners overview
- Actuators and their functions
- Valves-sizing, types and differences
- VFD overview
- Process & Instrumentation Diagrams (P & IDs)
- Control system definition, logic diagrams
- Relays and ladder logic
- Communication and DCS basics
- Programming of PLCs using Boolean instructions
- Control system architecture
- PLC program documentation
- Engineering contractor scope of work, packaged equipment scope of work
- Single loop controllers
- Signal isolators and noisy signals
- Math and equations in single loop controllers
- Scaling different signals for process
Module 4: Advanced Instrumentation
This, up to 32-hours of training, will cover valve positioners, control system prints and documentation, heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and an introduction to Bus Systems, Industrial Process Control Systems, and Networking.
- Characteristics of valve positioners
- Pneumatic positioners
- Electric positioners
- Digital smart positioners
- Reading and interpreting electrical schematic and wiring diagrams
- Drawing electrical schematics and wiring diagrams
- P & ID – piping and instrumentation diagrams
- Loop sheets – field and control room
- Instrument list
- Typical pneumatic heating, ventilation and cooling control systems
- Typical electrical heating, ventilating, and cooling systems
- Operation of typical pneumatic and electronic controllers used for HVAC
- Foundation fieldbus
- Profibus PA and DP device net
- Creating function blocks, structured texts, and sequential function charts
- Linking different systems, HMI designs and programming
- History behind communications
- Ethernet
- Modbus
- Cable testing (cat 5, cat 6, fiber optic)
- Cable building (cat 5, cat 6, fiber optic)
- Common practices for different cables
- Older systems communication