Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. This APC/FDM course covers the practical application of Advanced Process Control (APC) or Field Device Manager (FDM) systems to a variety of continuous process plants. The course discuss automation and its importance, types of plants and controls, automation hierarchy, control system architecture, instrumentation and control, different types of computer-based control systems including PLCS and DCS. Basic requirements for good operator interface, industrial communication, information interchange, manmachine communication, enterprise level, engineering & commissioning, performance & dependability, dependable control systems, safety & hazard analysis, concepts & implementation of alarm & trip systems, device management protocols and Honeywell field device manager (FDM) will be illustrated during the course. The course will provide hands-on training sessions in PLC and HMI (OIU and SCADA) programming techniques using one of our stateof-the art Allen Bradley SLC 500, Siemens S7-200, AB Micrologix 1000 (Digital or Analog), AB SLC5/03 and AB WS5610 PLC simulators. Please refer to the last page of this course overview for details of simulators.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30