- 24 February 2020 – 28 February 2020
- Length: 4.5 Days
- Time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday-Thursday
- 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Friday
- CEU Credits: 3.6
- Member/Group Price: $3390 USD
- List Price: $4240 USD
- Affiliate Price: $3815 USD
Mead O’Brien, Inc., 10800 Midwest Industrial Blvd, St Louis, MO 63132
This class focuses on the knowledge and skills sets required to function as an instrument maintenance technician. The electrical skills possessed by a trained electrician will serve as basis for expansion to include the expertise needed to maintain an instrument control system. Process measurement techniques, measurement and control equipment, calibrations techniques and calibration equipment will be discussed and utilized in numerous hands-on lab sessions. The knowledge and experience gained from attending this class will lead the student to become an asset to an I&E maintenance team.
You will be able to:
- Interpret P&ID documentation
- Utilize various process calibrators
- Properly design and construct a current (4-20 mA) loop
- Analyze and troubleshoot a current loop for proper operation
- Connect, test and calibrate various electronic analog transmitters
- Connect, configure, test and calibrate various digital (Smart) transmitters
- Hook-up, test and calibrate a pneumatic valve positioner
- Configure, test and calibrate a digital valve controller (DVC)
- P&ID and other instrument document interpretation
- Laws of Physics and other fundamentals as applied to measurement and control
- Ohm’s Law and various other electrical characteristics used in signal transmission
- Proper use of instrument calibrators and HART communicators
- Transmitter configurations and calibrations Control valve set-up, configuration and calibration
- Definitions/modes of operation of process controller and PID algorithms
- Control loop analysis and fundamental troubleshooting
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