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Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)

 

Program Duration

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5 Days

Program Date

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18-22 February, 2012

Program Location

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Cairo, Egypt

Program Fees

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US$ 3200/Per Person

 

ROGRAM INTRODUCTION:

 

Control engineers has been used over time, in the past humans were the main method for controlling system. more recently electricity has been used for control and early electrical control was based on relays, now . Although the PLC has been with us for more than thirty years, its role in the industrial environment is still subject to much debate and controversy. , with the advance of increasingly sophisticated microprocessor technology, analog capability – particularly PID control – became an integral part of the PLC functionality. However, the PLC was essentially blind and it was really only with the advent of the NT-based Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems that the PLC/SCADA took on a new life – competing directly with advanced DCS systems and to provide engineers and technicians with the basic theoretical and practical understanding of PLC systems and how this can be applied to optimize their systems interms of safety, flexibility and costs so as we present to you this course.

 

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:

 

•  Provide engineers and technicians with the basic theoretical and practical understanding of PLC systems

•  How this can be applied to optimize their systems in terms of safety, flexibility and costs.

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

  • Chemical Engineers

  • Automation Engineers

  • Design Engineers

  • Consulting Engineers

  • Instrument and Process Control Engineers and Technicians

  • Process Operators

  • Project Administrators

  • Electrical Engineers

  • Installation and Maintenance Technicians

  • Maintenance Engineers

  • Mechanical Engineers and Technicians

  • Operations Engineers

  • System Integrators

  • Process Engineers

  • Production Department Heads

PROGRAM OUTLINES:

 

INTRODUCTION TO CONTROL SYSTEMS

  • Definition of SCADA, DCS and a PLC terminology

  • SCADA versus DCS

BASIC COMPONENTS OF PLC

  • Control processor and memory

  • Processing and scanning

  • Digital processing

  • Analog processing

NUMBERING SYSTEMS

  • Binary numbering

  • Hexadecimal

  • Variable types and the IEC 61131-3

PLC INSTRUCTION SETS

  • Memory organisation

  • Input/output addressing

  • Timers/counters

ELEMENTS OF PLC PROGRAMMING

  • The IEC 61131-3 standard

  • Ladder Logic Diagrams

ELEMENTS OF PLC PROGRAMMING (CONT.)

  • Functional Block Diagrams

  • Structured Text

  • Instruction Lists

  • Sequential Function Chart

INSTALLATION PRACTICES

  • Interference or noise reduction

  • Cable spacing and routing

  • Earthing and grounding

CODE QUALITY AND MAINTENANCE

  • Program maintenance

  • Change procedures

  • Defect detection

  • Quality measurement and demonstration

FAULT TOLERANCE

  • Improving system availability

  • Hot standby systems

  • Cold standby

UPGRADING STRATEGIES

SIMULATION AND TESTING

  • Factory acceptance testing (FAT)

  • Transport and reassembly

  • Simulation packages

  • Physical test panels

  • I/O emulation systems

ROBLEM ISOLATION AND TESTING