Training Courses
Process Control & Loop Tuning Course (2-days) Course Information:
Course Description: This training course familiarizes students with common industrial control loops and gives them the abilities to setup, tune, and troubleshoot common control loops. This training course covers a variety of control techniques such as ON/OFF control, proportional control, proportional-integral control, and full PID control.
Students will setup and tune various real-world control loops (not computer simulated) on our pressure, temperature, and level training stations.
A heavy emphasis is placed on understanding the complex concepts of PID control loops, and on understanding overall loop dynamics, as well as familiarizing students with common terminology and controller features.
Length: 2 days (1 to 3 days for custom onsite training) Percent Hands-on: 25-75% Training Equipment: Temperature control loop station; Pressure control loop station; Dell laptop computers; Various digital controller units Pre-requisites: None Target Audience: Operators, Electricians, Technicians, Engineers, and Managers Maximum Class Size: 10 students Public Course Cost: $795 (per student) Onsite Course Cost* $2500/day plus T/L (Contact us for a detailed quote)
*Costs stated are maximum values, but may be reduced based on course timing, location, early scheduling, advanced payment, and total volume of training.
Typical Course Topics (partial listing of topic areas, not in sequence):
Parts of the control loop Controller types Controller setup concepts Understanding process dynamics (dead-time, capacity, etc.) On/Off control concepts Control actuator basics (AC/DC/Stepper motors, hydraulic/pneumatic actuators, etc.) Control valve concepts Variable frequency drive basics (AC) Variable speed drive basics (DC) Common control system errors and problems PID control systems basics PID control details (windup, CV limiting, feed-forward biasing, bumpless transfer, dead-bands, etc.) PID control system advanced features Controller tuning concepts and methods Advanced control strategies (cascade, ratio, feed-forward, etc.) Real world applications, common problems, issues, tips and tricks
Primary Skills Learned:
Troubleshoot and solve problems in control loops Setup standard control loops Methodically tune standard control loops Logically diagnose control loop related problems Apply advanced controller features to improve system performance
Typical Lab Exercises (partial listing, not in sequence):
Control loop basics lab (temperature loop) Control loop features labs (temperature loop, and pressure loop) PID concepts labs (temperature, pressure, sometimes level loops) PID tuning lab (open loop and closed loop tuning basics) Controller advanced features labs (feed-forward, dead-band, etc.) Advanced tuning / practice labs (PC simulation) Troubleshooting control loops labs
This course is also available as onsite training at your location, to suit your organizational needs. Contact us or complete an onsite training cost worksheet for a quick, no obligation quote. If you have additional questions about our training, or would like more detailed information, please call us and we will be glad to answer your questions and help in any way that we can. If you do not see the course you are interested in on the course schedule, please contact us and let us know which courses you are interested in and we will try to put together a course to suit your needs as soon as possible, or complete a course interest form to be automatically informed of courses meeting your specific criteria. We offer a money-back satisfaction guarantee on all of our training services.
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