DCS400: DCS Training for Control Room Operators

Many new and inexperienced control room operators enter plants every year. This course is aimed at training both new and experienced operators. The course focuses not only on the mechanics of how to use the DCS but also covers many of the intricate details necessary for skilled and high quality operation.

This course covers important DCS operational details, including DCS tag attributes, parameters, and fields, and how to start up complex control schemes. We cover procedures for how to detect control problems and tackle them quickly and effectively. The course covers DCS graphics.

The course helps to prevent careless mistakes that could potentially cause shut-downs and encourages safe habits. The operators also learn to fully utilize features like alarms, trending, event monitoring, history, and other advanced features that can make the operators’ time more effective. The course also covers the meaning and use of various types of DCS tags – PV, analog, digital, input/output, numerics, summers, multipliers, timers, sequence programs, continuous programs, and many other tags.

• Introduction to Distributed Control Systems (DCS) 32:13

  • 1: Introduction, terms and definitions 32:13

• DCS Architecture and Control Network 1:27:00

  • 2: DCS Architecture and Control Network 1:27:00

• Analog and Digital Signals 24:48

  • 3: Analog and Digital Signals 24:48

• DCS Tagnames and Graphics 21:24

  • 4: DCS Tagnames and Graphics 21:24

• PID Control Tags and Attributes 1:49:50

  • 5: PID Control Tags and Attributes 1:49:50

• Other Types of DCS Tags 47:12

  • 6: Other Types of DCS Tags 47:12

• Alarms, Events and Alerts 20:18

  • 7: Alarms, Events and Alerts 20:18

• Trends 04:01

  • 8: Trends 04:01

• Remote Access 09:07

  • 9: Remote Access 09:07

• Safety and Recommended Procedures 12:54

  • 10: Safety and Recommended Procedures 12:54

• Management of Change Procedures 07:40

  • 11: Management of Change Procedures 07:40

Our DCS400 (DCS Training for Control Room Operators) training course is very practical and easy to understand for everyone: engineers, technicians, operators, and students – both new and experienced. That is why our customers consider us the best.

This training course is aimed at training both new and experienced operators. It covers not only the mechanics of how to use the DCS but also covers many of the intricate details necessary for skilled and high-quality operation, important DCS operational details, including DCS tag attributes, parameters, and fields, and how to start up complex control schemes and other related topics. The course helps to prevent careless mistakes that could potentially cause shutdowns and encourages safe habits.

The operators also learn to fully utilize features like alarms, trending, event monitoring, history, and other advanced features that can make the operators’ time more effective. The course also covers the meaning and use of various types of DCS tags – PV, analog, digital, input/output, numeric, summers, multipliers, timers, and many other tags. Our course is more hands-on than any competitor. This level of hands-on approach tremendously aids the learning process and mastering process control theory and practicals.

Our instructors have over 30 years of industrial experience and process control training experience. They not only have the technical process control knowledge but also skills to make sure participants are fully engaged and able to concentrate on the material.

After completion of our full-blown DCS400 training course, you will get an international diploma as a process control expert in the field of DCS for control room operators.

• Lab Technicians and DCS/PLC Technicians
• Process Control Engineers, Advanced Process Control Engineers, and Instrument Engineers
• Managers and Supervisors

• Some control room exposure is desirable, but not required.

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