5 Day SCADA Course Outline
General – Course to be 5 days long, starting with introduction and containing information about design, installation, maintenance. Oil and Gas Production will be the basis of the course. There will be a pre-instruction exercise, exercises during the course and a post-instruction exercise. S. Boyer’s book, “SCADA, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition”, published by ISA, will be referenced throughout the course.
Day 1
-Introduction of instructor and attendees
-Pre instruction exercise
-Outline of the course
o Introduction to concepts, Definitions
o Case study of pipeline SCADA
o A combination of many technologies
o Definitions
o Control systems without SCADA (Local Instrumentation)
o Remote Terminal Unit (RTU)
o Master Terminal Unit (MTU)
o Communication between RTU and MTU (Wire, Radio, Satellite)
o Communication between MTU and other business systems
o Applications
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-Expansion of the Subject
o More detailed definition of SCADA
o What is similar between SCADA and DCS?
o What is different between SCADA and other control systems?
o Definition of Supervisory
o Real time and what it really means
o Brief history of SCADA
o Why do we need SCADA?
Day 2 -Manual Control
o Concept of feedback
o Concept of Deadtime and Overshoot
-Automatic Control
o Proportional, Integral and Differential Control
o Concept of Fuzzy Logic
o Concept of Artificial Intelligence
o Concept of Feedforward
o Concept of Archives
-Things we need to measure
o Level
o Pressure
o Temperature
o Flow
o Position
o Analysis
-How to get the information from the process to the controller
o Medium, Language, Time
o Discrete or Analog or Digital
o Protocols, Modbus, IEEE,
Day 3
-Necessary Concepts
o Digital Number Systems
o Electronic Tools, Schmidt Triggers, Flip Flops, Clocks
o Multiplexers/Demultiplexers and Aliasing
o Analog to Digital Conversion
o Modems
Day 4
-RTUs
-MTUs and Sub MTUs
-Protocols
-Handshaking
Day 5
-Wirelines, Radios, and Telephones
-Radio Paths
-Satellite Communication
-Integration of the System
-Applications
-Sources of Systems
-Economics
-Security
-Expected future changes
-Post Instructional Exercise
-Discussion and Questions
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