Duration: 2 Days Classroom or 16 hours Online
Audience: Process Control Engineers, Application Engineers, Analyzer Technicians, Boiler Technicians, DCS technicians, Instrument Engineers and Supervisors.
Prerequisites: Some plant experience and/or a 2-year associates diploma in technical field.
Course Material: OPC training slides, OPC hands-on training slides, various OPC software products – OPC Servers, OPC Clients, OPC Explorers and OPC Browsers, real industrial OPC servers and client software for installation and configuration practice.
PiControl Software Tools for Training:
$425.00
Course Description
OPC (OLE for Process Control) is now the latest, most modern and powerful communications protocol for the industry. Using OPC, many data transfers can be quickly and effectively facilitated. In addition, many powerful, custom applications can be developed and implemented on an OPC server-based computer connected to the DCS.
This course shows you how to use OPC for many important DCS connected applications, e.g.: bringing online data from gas chromatographs into the DCS, allowing operator entered data on an operator HMI screen to get downloaded into the DCS.
This course also shows you how to connect two independent OPC servers together easily with special software. The course covers how to pull/push data to and from DCS/PLC to host computers. It teaches how to use signal processing and validation for increasing safety and reliability in chemical processes.
The course teaches how to conceive, design and implement new process control, advanced control and communications-related applications using OPC, level-3 computers and DCS/PLC.
This course is very hands-on. You install various real OPC servers and real OPC clients. You run the OPC servers and OPC clients in full real-time mode. You will witness real-time data transfer and two-ways data communications.
You will get complete real industrial hands-on experience since you are installing and configuring real industrial grade software products.
You will not only see these products during the online session but you will install these products yourself on your own computer for training, learning and hands-on practice. The experience is full industrial grade and the same principles you learn will be applicable in a real industrial plant environment.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, attendees will clearly understand important concepts about OPC and its use in the industry. Attendees will be able to connect any OPC server together, transfer data two-way to DCS/PLC, perform custom calculations directly on an OPC server and then talk to the DCS, decipher, troubleshoot and solve OPC problems. Attendees will understand COM, DCOM, DA, HDA, UA, AE and all commonly used OPC concepts.
Attendees will have the skills and knowledge to develop new applications using OPC, save costs using modern OPC technology and implement new APC and primary control schemes faster and with lower costs.
At the end of this course, you will be able to install, configure and activate real industrial grade OPC servers and clients. You will be familiar with both COM and DCOM configuration. You will be configuring both COM and DCOM on your own computer(s).
You will understand how to connect two different devices or OPC clients together. You will install and activate both fast data logging and historizing OPC client. You could use the concepts for connecting online analyzers to any DCS/PLC using OPC. You could connect online vibration monitoring sensors to another device. The number of applications and opportunities are diverse and wide-spectrum.
With this knowledge, you will be able to select the right OPC tools (servers and clients) for any industrial application.
The following topics are covered in this course:
