CEUs: 3.6
Another part of the Technician Training Boot Camp Series
Description:
This class focuses on the knowledge and skills-sets required to function as an instrument maintenance technician. The electrical skills-set possessed by a trained electrician will serve as basis for expansion to include the skills-set required to maintain an instrument control system. Process measurement techniques, measurement and control equipment, calibrations techniques and calibration equipment will be discussed and utilized in numerous hands-on lab sessions. The knowledge and skill-sets gained from attending this class will lead the student to become an asset to an I&E maintenance team.
Who should attend?
- Electricians assigned the additional responsibilities of instrument maintenance
- Technicians with electrical skills cross training into the instrument discipline
- Supervisors needing to audit/evaluate a cross training program for their employees
- Individuals with less than four (4) years of instrument knowledge
Instrument X-Training Boot Camp Objectives:
- Introduce students to instrument documentation for proper document interpretation
- Review physics terminology and definitions, math functions, and engineering unit assignments as used in the instrumentation field
- Introduce instrument calibration equipment and its proper utilization
- Discuss process control and measurement fundamentals and related equipment
- Discuss analog/digital transmission signals
- Relay proper use of HART communicators
- Discuss process control valve elements, makeup and function
- Provide proper calibration techniques for transmitters and control valves
- Practice loop wiring connections, calibrations, equipment configurations/operations
- Discuss instrument troubleshooting techniques
- Discuss process control fundamentals
You will be able to:
- Interpret P&ID documentation
- Explain the PID tuning process
- Utilize various process calibrators
- Properly design and construct a current (4-20 mA) loop
- Analyze and troubleshoot a current loop for proper operation
- Connect, test and calibrate various electronic analog transmitters
- Connect, configure, test and calibrate various digital (Smart) transmitters
- Test and calibrate an I/P
- Hook-up, test and calibrate a pneumatic valve positioner
- Configure, test and calibrate a digital valve controller (DVC)
You Will Cover:
- P&ID and other instrument document interpretation
- Laws of Physics and other fundamentals as applied to measurement and control
- Ohm’s Law and various other electrical characteristics used in signal transmission
- Proper use of instrument calibrators and HART communicators
- Transmitter configurations and calibrations
- Control valve set-up, configuration and calibration
- Definitions/modes of operation of process controller and PID algorithms
- Control loop analysis and fundamental troubleshooting
Laboratory/Classroom Exercises:
- Test equipment training and utilization
- Hart Protocol communicator training and utilization
- 4-20 mA current loop configuration, construction and operation
- Current loop analysis and testing
- Analog transmitter hook-up, testing and calibration
- Digital (Smart) transmitter hook-up, configuration, testing and calibration
- I/P calibration
- Pneumatic valve positioner calibration
- DVC configuration and calibration
- Simulated PID tuning
Includes ISA Text:
- Measurement and Control Basics by Thomas A. Hughes
For more information:
Contact us at +1 919-549-8411 or info@isa.org to start your company on the path to well-trained employees.