COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date knowledge of Industrial Automation & Automatic Control Systems. It covers the evolution from manual to automatic control, benefits and challenges of automation and types of industrial automation; the elements of a control system, types of control systems and process variables and measurements; the industrial communication basics, automation system architecture, PLC hardware and architecture, PLC programminglanguages, logic development and control tasks and PLC inputs and output. 

During the course, participants will be able to the troubleshooting and diagnostics in PLCs and PLC application examples and HMI systems, SCADA system architecture, HMI/SCADA screen development, alarm and event management, data logging and reporting and remote access and cybersecurity; the industrial sensors and transducers, actuators and final control elements and PID control and tuning techniques; the advanced control strategies and instrument loop diagrams and wiring, calibration and maintenance of instruments and system integration and commissioning; the fieldbus and industrial ethernet, preventive and predictive maintenance in automation and energy management and efficiency.