COURSE OVERVIEW

 

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises.  Theory learnt will be applied using one of our state-of-the-art simulators. 

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) technology has evolved over the past 30 years as a method of monitoring and controlling large processes.  SCADA refers to the combination of telemetry and data acquisition. 

SCADA encompasses the collecting of the information via a RTU (Remote Terminal Unit), transferring it back to the central site, carrying out any necessary analysis and control and then displaying that information on a number of operator screens or displays.  The required control actions are then conveyed back to the process. 

SCADA systems consist of three functional components: communications equipment, Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), and Master Terminal Units (MTUs). Communications is the spine of SCADA technology. All information from remote sites must successfully negotiate the communications system to get from the RTU to the MTU. 

 

The course offers overviews of SCADA Siemens component technologies, as well as details necessary to understand the big picture. SCADA processes cover areas that may be measured in the thousands of square miles, and have dimensions that may be hundreds, occasionally thousands, of mile long.  Now a mature technology, SCADA includes, but is not limited to, software packages that can be incorporated in a larger system.  After completing this course, participants should be conversant with SCADA Siemens nomenclature and architecture, understand the basic technology of the system’s building blocks, understand its limitations, understand how it can benefit particular operations, and have a basis for selecting appropriate SCADA Siemens technologies for their operational requirements. 

 

This course is designed to introduce the participants to the basics of SCADA Siemens by providing overviews of relevant topics where possible and details where necessary.  Since SCADA Siemens consists of the elements of several different technologies, it is sometimes difficult to know where to stop when describing some of these technologies to the participants. The course attempts to focus on such technologies to the extent that they make SCADA Siemens more understandable.  The course also identifies major differences between the SCADA systems of different industries.  Because the basics of SCADA are much the same from one industry to another, however, examples from many industries have been included throughout the course. 

 

The course will cover most popular PLC’s used in the industry, such as Quantum, Allen Bradley, Siemens, Bristol, Emersons, Omron and Telemechanique Shneider Modicon with extended case studies for Allen Bradley and Siemens.