We offer formal training in your facility to strengthen your ability to diagnose and solve process problems.
All courses are designed to fit your specific application, and can be varied in length and technical level to meet your needs.
Qualifications:
Course Development and Instructor for ISA, Society of Measurement and Control. Course Development and Instructor for California State University, Fullerton. Over 20 years experience in the process environment.
Control System Design:
How to size and build a control system from the bottom up. Compare the benefits and shortfalls of Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and single purpose controllers. Understand common industrial networks and interface requirements.
Personal Computers in Industrial Control:
The power and low cost of personal computers make them perfect candidates for many industrial applicatoins. Learn how to specify a PC system that will endure in your application. Identify tools and test equipment, and procedures to set up and diagnose your system.
Man Machine Interfaces (MMI):
Evaluate options and costs for providing a system that meets your needs. Learn how to create a tagname database. Develop graphical displays with dynamic links. Create historical archives. Establish system security. Troubleshoot system problems.
Continuous Control Theory:
Define the basic parameters of physical processes, and how they impact the control solution. Understand how a three mode (PID) controller works, where and when to use it, and how to tune it. Discuss advanced control strategies, such as Cascade, Ratio, Feed Forward, Override, and Model Based Control. Learn sequential and batch control strategies and where to apply them.
Statistical Process Control (SPC):
The use of statistical analysis of industrial processes enables the firm to anticipate off quality trends more quickly and analyze causes of process deviation more precisely. We discuss the goals of quality control, the statistical concepts that form the foundation of SPC, and the tools for implementing a statistical process control program.
Flow Measurement:
How to rigorously account for gas and liquid flows in pipelines. We use the American Gas Association (AGA) and American Petroleum Institute (API) standards to explain methods of calculation, and estimation of accuracy. Learn how to design and test a measurement system. Discover how to use your prover meter factor to tell you the health of your meter run. Learn ways to use the custody transfer calculation for accurate and immediate leak detection. Sampling procedures. Learn how to automate your prover procedures.
Safety Shutdown Systems:
Learn how to design a safety shutdown system. Understand the concepts of reliability and availability, and how they are achieved by various equipment vendors. Create logic diagrams for permissive (start-up) and interrupt (shutdown) conditions. Examine impact of safety shutdown on normal operations. Discuss specific examples including boiler control, compressor control and other process unit controls.
Programmable Logic Controllers: