Instrumentation & Process Control

This course covers the key aspects of current instrumentation and process control technology and is designed to enable maintenance personnel to carry out commissioning, calibration and maintenance of the typical devices used for measurement and control in industrial systems.

The course is ideal for those who presently possess some electrical knowledge, work in a maintenance environment and seek to expand their activities to include process control and instrumentation systems. This course is a combination of Course 510 and Course 515.

The course is extensively ‘hands on’, giving participants considerable practical experience of the devices typically found in industry. Comprehensive course notes are provided.

On completion of the course, participants will be able to

• understand the health and safety implications of working with closed-loop control systems
• identify the various methods of signal transmission
• correctly connect electrical and air-powered devices
• understand the equipment used in temperature, pressure, level and flow measurement
• understand current loops and recognise the common output devices
• correctly use a range of industrial calibration equipment
• correctly connect, commission and calibrate current loop devices, temperature transmitters, pressure switches, pressure sensors, dp cells, ultrasonic level meters, load cell amplifiers, I to P converters and HART devices
• understand the principles of turbidity, density, pH, and weight measurement
• understand the relevance of the three terms (PID) used in controllers
• identify the capabilities of controllers from their exterior markings
• configure a range of industry standard electronic controllers
• manually tune electronic controllers
• determine when a controller is correctly tuned.