📘 Distributed Control System (DCS) Training
🔹 General Description & Audience
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Distributed Control Systems (DCS), covering their architecture, components, applications, and selection criteria across different industries.
Special focus is given to the ABB 800xA system, including its architecture, operation tools, and engineering tools.
Who should attend:
- Instrumentation Engineers
- Supervisors
- Technicians
Duration: 20 training hours
🎯 Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define the concept of control and the basic elements of a control loop.
- Explain the interconnection between control systems and field devices.
- Identify the components and architecture of a DCS.
- Describe applications and selection criteria of DCS in various processes.
- Understand the ABB 800xA system structure and components, including:
- Operator workplace
- Engineering workplace
- Control Builder M (CBM)
- Control Builder A (CBA)
📚 Course Contents
1. Concept of Process Control
- Control System Definition
- Process Control Definition
- Basic Elements of Control Loop
- Standard Instrument Signals
2. Introduction to Digital Control Systems
- Direct Digital Control (DDC)
- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)
- SCADA
- DCS
- Main Differences Between DCS, PLC, and SCADA
3. DCS Structure & Main Components
- Controller Systems and Input/Output Modules
- Operator Stations
- Engineering Stations
- Control Network
4. ABB 800xA System
- System Architecture
- Aspects and Objects
- Structures
5. Industrial Protocols
- Digital vs. Analog Communications
- Fieldbus Technology
- HART
- Foundation Fieldbus
- OPC
- Modbus
6. Networking
- Open System Model
- Network Topologies
- Network Cables
- Industrial Networks
- Servers and Workstations
7. Controllers & I/Os
- Hardware Description
- Process Control Software
- Redundancy
- Diagnostics and Fault Announcements
- ABB Advant Controller 450
- ABB AC800M
