Course Overview
This course provides a complete and up-to-date overview of the process control, instrumentation and troubleshooting techniques used to solve process problems. It will provide participants with the knowledge and skills needed to troubleshoot and solve various problems encountered when working with instrumentation and controls systems.

Course Benefits
By attending this WorkmanSkills training course, delegates will be able to:

• Operate the most common measuring process parameters
• Demonstrate the ability to properly set up a transmitter to measure pressure, flow, level and temperature
• Define and apply control concepts including self-regulating and non-self-regulating processes, positive/negative feedback and process time constant
• Outline the major control strategies and identify which one to apply in order to effectively operate and troubleshoot a process
• Use the 7-step systematic troubleshooting process to logically troubleshoot a system regardless of the type of system

Target Audience:
This course is designed for instrumentation and control personnel including general maintenance personnel, plant managers and supervisors, control and instrumentation technicians and engineers, automation engineers, electricians and general engineers.

How will this Training Course be Presented?
Facilitated by an experienced maintenance specialist, our process and instrumentation control training course will be conducted as a highly interactive work session (as opposed to lectures), encouraging participants to share their own experiences and apply the training course material to real-life situations.
Each delegate will receive an extensive reference manual, as well as case studies, while worked out solutions will be handed out to the delegates on conclusion of group discussions. Throughout the training course, delegates will be encouraged to identify what they can do to enhance process reliability in their organizations.​
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Course Outlines
Instrument terminology

• Span
• Range
• Sensitivity
• Accuracy
• Resolution
• Turn down ratio
• Zero suppression
• Elevation

Measuring process parameters

• Methods of level measurements
  • Direct methods
  • Inferred methods
• Measuring pressure
• Measuring temperature
• Measuring flow
• Measuring level

Instrument loops and transmitters

• Operation of 4-20 milliamp loops
• Basic operation of instrument transmitter
• Setting up a transmitter
• Converting units
• Calibration of instrument loops overview

 Process basics

• Types of processes
• Self-regulating processes
• Non-self-regulating processes
• Process time constants
• Positive feedback
• Negative feedback

 Process control strategies

• Two position control
• Proportional control (P)
• Proportional and Integral control (PI)
• Proportional and Integral and Derivative control (PID)

 Troubleshooting

• 7-step troubleshooting process
• Symptom recognition
• Symptom elaboration
• Localize the faulty function
• Localize the faulty circuit
• Localize the faulty component
• Repair the faulty component
• Re-test
• Half splitting a process
• How to perform measurements on the process

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​The Certificate
Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course