Course Instructor
Khaled Nigim, P.Eng, Conestoga College

Session 1: Distributed Control Systems Components

• Remote control panel
• Communications medium
• Central control panel or facility
• Control, interface and database software

Session 2: Introduction to Industrial Process and Control

• Continuous, batch, discrete process
• Control Modes
• ON/Off Control Mode
• Proportional Control Mode PID Controllers Basics
• Proportional Plus Integral Control Mode
• Proportional Plus Integral Control Mode

Session 3: Basics of Smart Sensors and Actuators

• Voltage and current measurements
• Current Transducers
• Voltage Transducers
  
  
• Temperature measurement and T/V conversion
• Resistance Temperature Detectors- RTD
• Thermistor
• Infrared
  
  
• Pressure measurement
• Capacitance and variable resistor pressure sensors
  
  
• Level and flow measurement
• Hot Wire Anemometers
• Differential Pressure Measurement Systems
• Positive Displacement Flow Sensors
• Turbine Based Flow Sensors
• Magnetic Flow Sensors
• Ultrasonic Flow Sensors
• Understand 4 to 20mA control loops

Session 4: Industrial Communication - Transmitters and Receivers

• Industrial process communication basis
• Local Area Networks LANs
• Data communications protocol
• Open Systems
• BACNET
• LON

Session 5: Plug and Play Transducers

• Transducer Electronic Data

Session 6: Elements of Industrial Interfacing

• Electromechanical Relays
• Solid State Relays (SSR)
• Two Wires System
• Three Wires System
• The Four Wire System
• Sensors with Analog Signal Output
• Sourcing and Sinking
• Isolation of Signals
• Interfacing with PLCs
• Interfacing PLC Input Modules
• Interfacing PLC Output Modules

Session 7: Smart Metering

• Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
• Advanced Metering Management (AMM)

Session 8: Introduction to Digital Logic

• AND, NAND, OR and NOR logic
• Timers, counters and registers

Session 9: The Basics of Analogue to Digital and Digital to Analogue Units

• A/D and D/A conversion
• Voltage to frequency conversion

Session 10: Introduction to Smart Solid State Devices

• Diode, transistors and silicon controlled rectifier

Session 11: Introduction to Ladder Programming

• Relay ladder logic diagrams
• AND, OR, NOT functions

Session 12: Introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers

• PLC Internal Relays
• PLC Execution Steps
• PLC Programming Concepts (Relay diagrams)
• Basic Standard Programming Instructions

Session 13: Basics of Human Machine Interface-HMI

• PLC Internal Relays
• HMI Basics
• Alarms and Plant Status Animation
• HMI Software and Operator Input Instructions
• HMI Communication Connection to PLCs

Session 14: Supervisory and Control System-SCADA

• PLC Internal Relays
• Basic Function of SCADA
• General Format of SCADA Systems
• SCADA Basic Elements
• Master Terminal Unit
• Remote Terminal Unit

Session 15: Interfacing and Monitoring Electric Drives Operation

• PLC Internal Relays
• Motion Control Basics
• Induction Motor Torque and Speed Control
• VSD Characteristics
• Open-loop AC drives
• Closed Loop Speed and Current Control
• Field Oriented Control (FOC)

Day 2 Wrap-Up

Course Timetable for Both Days:

• START: 8:00AM
• COFFEE BREAK: 10:00AM
• LUNCH: 12:00PM
• REFRESHMENT BREAK: 2:30PM
• FINISH: 4:30PM