Engineering and Maintenance
Fieldbus Engineering and Application
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Fieldbus Engineering and Application Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
Upon the successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the benefits of using Fieldbus technology
- Understand the difference between Fieldbus technology and the traditional communication technologies.
- Describe how does data get where it's needed -- and when it's needed
- Determine when a function block or communication action begins?
- Describe how do you avoid overlapping communications when you have more than one loop on the same segment?
- Explain how can you accommodate both fast and slow loops?
- To manage the internal processing that turns the inputs into
Who Should Attend?
This five-day instructional program covering the educational needs of Instrumentation and Control Engineers & Technicians, Operation Engineers, Process and Utility Supervisors, and Technical Supervisory personnel taking a first look at Fieldbus technology. No specific prerequisite training or experience required for registration.
Course Outlines:
Introduction to Foundation Fieldbus
- What is the FOUNDATION Fieldbus?
- The digital bus advantage
- An established standard
- Interoperability
- Safe and effective process control
Fieldbus Communications
- The communications model
- Physical layer
- Datalink and application layers
- User layer
- Scheduled communications
- Unscheduled communications
- Parameter status
- Application clock
- Link active scheduler
- Device address assignment
- Find tag service
Loop Scheduling
- Basic scheduling
- Multiple loops on the same segment
Fieldbus Blocks
- FOUNDATION Fieldbus function blocks
- Basic FOUNDATION Fieldbus function blocks
- Advanced FOUNDATION Fieldbus function blocks
- How do function blocks get into devices?
- Instantiating blocks into devices
- Device descriptions
Diagnostics with Fieldbus
- More than device maintenance
- Equipment diagnostics
- Loop diagnostics
- Improving plant performance
- Reducing process variability
- Improving process availability
- Enhancing safety and environmental compliance
- Managing alarms and alerts
Fieldbus Interoperability
- Field-device interoperability
- Testing devices for interoperability
- When device capabilities evolve
- Host-system interoperability
- Off-line interoperability
Reliability and Redundancy
- Total system reliability
- How much redundancy is enough?
- Transmitter redundancy
- Valve and piping redundancy
- Control redundancy
- Host redundancy options
- Other redundancy options
- Link active scheduler and backup LAS
Network Wiring Fundamentals
- A Fieldbus advantage
- Basic segment design
- Wire types and segment lengths
- Total segment length
- Mixing wire types on a segment
Network Wiring Options
- Tree and branch topologies
- Combining conduit and armored cable
- Non-conduit options: tree
- Non-conduit options: branch
- Using existing wiring and junction boxes
Segment Hardware
- Required