Are you looking to upskill in the thriving industrial automation field? The Automation System Professional (ASP) Course equips you with the necessary knowledge and expertise to excel.
This comprehensive course is designed for individuals seeking careers in industrial automation. It provides a strong foundation in automation systems, control technologies, and industry best practices, ensuring you stay relevant in this ever-evolving field.
Key Features of the ASP Course:
- Hands-on Learning: Gain practical skills through a blend of theoretical lectures and practical lab sessions.
- Industry-Current Curriculum: Learn about the latest trends and technologies in automation systems, ensuring you possess the most up-to-date knowledge.
- In-depth Component Coverage: Understand the various hardware and software components of automation systems, including PLCs, HMIs, sensors, and actuators.
Objectives:
The course aims to help the participants understand automation technologies and identify advantages, limitations, and applications. Develop the ability to recognize, articulate and solve industrial problems using automation technologies.
Course Outcome:
Upon completing the Automation System Professional Course from IIPD, the candidate will be able to:
- Locate and identify hardware systems like PLC, HMI, VFD, PAC
- Program and configure different brands of PLCs and PACs per the process/site requirement.Â
- Interpret, understand, and apply ladder logic programming as per requirements and make changes to running programs
- Program and configure HMI and SCADA and communicate with PLCs.
- Program and set VFDs for industrial applications
- Perform industrial networking using communication protocols like MODBUS 485, MODBUS TCP, PROFIBUS, etc, between PLC and slave modules.
- Troubleshoot Communication issues.
- Troubleshoot I/O Faults
- Going online with the software for monitoring and troubleshooting
- Understand and perform PLC-based Control Panel Wiring.
- Understand the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology, fetch data from PLC, and upload to the cloud-based system.
Prerequisite:
- Bachelor/Diploma In electrical/ electronics/ mechanical/ mechatronics/ instrumentation/ control/ robotics and minimum 2 years experience in a relevant technical field.
- Understanding of the systems to which the training is related.
Course Outline
Below is the course content, which includes a detailed outline of the topics and materials covered.
Introduction
- History of PLC
- Different Control Methods
- Relay, its application, and its features.Â
- Electrical wiring diagram of Gates using NO and NC Switches
- Implementation of Relay Gates
- Introduction to PLC and applications
- Advantage of PLC over relay wiring
- PLC Programming Languages
- General Introduction on SCADA, DCS
Allen Bradley PLC
- MicroLogix 1400 PLC Anatomy, Software Packages, and Versions
- Controller Properties, RSLogix500 First Look
- Input, Output Addressing, Memory allocation
- Configuring BOOTP DHCP tool for Communication
- Setting up RSLinx Classic Drivers, using RSEmulate for Program Simulation
- Controller and Program Tags
- Practice Questions and testing the program
- Creating interlocks for motor control
- Concepts of Timers-TON, TOF, RTO
- Concepts of Counters-CTU, CTD
- RTO RES
- Latch, Unlatch, OSR
- Uploading and Downloading the program to the controller
- Online editing
- Advanced Math and Data conversion function
- Using Compare, Move and Limit functions
- Remaining instructions
- Configuring Analog IO
S7 1200 -SIEMENS PLC
- Siemens S7 series PLC Anatomy and Models
- Software Packages and Versions
- TIA Portal First Look
- Controller Properties
- Configuring Communication
- Selection of Controllers
- Input , output Addressing, and memory mapping
- Uploading and Downloading the program to the controller
- Creating new Projects/Program and Tagname based Programming
- Basic Instructions
- Online editing
- Practice Questions
- Concepts of Timers - TON, TOF, TP, TONR
- Concepts of Counters - CTU, CTD, CTUD
- Using Compare, Move, and limit functions
- RTC
- Remaining instructions
- Configuring Analog IO
SCADA -InTouch (Schneider Electric)
- Introduction and application of SCADA
- Creating new project
- Basic drawing tools and color-changing features
- Wizards
- Single switch and light with the same tag
- Linking different tags using scripts
- On the show, while the show
- Automatic decrementing
- Animation properties
By taking the Automation System Professional Course, you'll gain a thorough understanding of how these components work together to create efficient and seamless automation systems. This knowledge is highly sought-after in various industries across Saudi Arabia.
