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Course Description
The increasing trend towards digital communications within the industrial plant environment has brought in its wake a myriad of problems concerned with interconnectivity and differing standards offered by a wide variety of competing vendors. For the user, it has become progressively more difficult to differentiate between the proffered options.
This course, Data Communications and Fieldbus Systems, is designed to provide engineers and technicians with an overview of modern digital communication standards – starting at the basic RS232 standard right through to Profibus/Foundation Fieldbus and beyond.
The Training Course Will Highlight ?
On successful completion of this course delegates will be able to:
- Understand the basic principles of data communications
- Apply basic faultfinding techniques covering RS232 up to RS485
- Recognize the wide range of fieldbus options
- Apply Modbus in a practical manner and make use of troubleshooting techniques
- Differentiate between the use of Modbus, ASI, DeviceNet, Profibus, and Foundation Fieldbus
- Understand the basics of Ethernet
- Understand TCP/IP and its associated protocols
- Apply some of the basic TCP/IP utilities
Training Objective
Designed for both novice and experienced engineers and technicians, this course starts at fundamental principles and progresses through basic coding and formatting systems, error detection, and protocols through to advanced fieldbus and device networking concepts.
Throughout the course, participants will learn through active participation using exercises, questionnaires, and practical troubleshooting using protocol analysis and covering:
- RS 232
- RS 485
- Modbus
- Networking
- TCP/IP
Target Audience
- Professionals involved in designing, selecting, sizing, specifying, installing, testing, operating and maintaining data communication and Fieldbus systems
- Any professional needing to get to grips with the ever expanding and complex field of data communications and Fieldbus systems:
- Automation Engineers
- Chemical Engineers
- Consulting Engineers
- Electrical Engineers
- Electricians
- Industrial IT specialists
- Installation and maintenance technicians
- Instrumentation and Control Engineers
- Maintenance Engineers
- Operations Engineers
- Process Engineers
- Process Operators
- Production Managers
- Project Managers
- System Integrators
- Other professionals who want a better understanding of the subject matter
Training Methods
The course maintains a balance between lecture and in-class exercises and between theory and application.
A variety of in-class exercise sessions are evenly dispersed throughout the course to emphasize the principles covered. Students are encouraged to put into practice the fault-finding techniques covered during the course.
Daily Agenda
Introduction to data communications
- Overview
- Modern Instrumentation and Control Systems
- “Smart” Instrumentation
Basic principles
- Overview
- Transmission Modes
- Digital systems
- Asynchronous frame
- ASCII Code
- Description of UART
- Standards
Data communications standards
- RS-232 interface standard
- RS-423 interface standard
- RS-422 interface standard
- EIA-RS-485 interface standard
- Interface Converters
ISO OSI model
- Introduction
- Individual layers
- Layer interfacing
- Simplified model
Communications media
- Cabling
- Definition of noise
- Electrical coupling
- Shielding
- Grounding
- Fibre optics
- Components
- Cable Parameters
- Connecting Fibres
- Splicing Trays/Organisers
- Troubleshooting and testing
Error detection
- Feedback vs. forward error control
- Checksum
- Cyclic Redundancy
Local Area Networks
- LAN Standards
- Topologies
- Protocols
- CSMA / CD (Ethernet)
- Token Ring
- Token Bus
Modbus
- Fundamentals
- Frame format
- Function coding
- Exception reports
- Troubleshooting
HART
- Fundamentals
- FSK
- Cabling and configuration
- Commands
Actuator Sensor Interface (ASI)
- Overview
- Physical layer
- Modulation principles
- Components
- Configuration
CANBus /DeviceNet
- Overview
- Frame format
- Arbitration
- Fragmentation
- Error reporting
- DeviceNet media layer
- Network configuration
Profibus
- Overview
- FMS
- DP physical layer
- PA physical layer
Foundation Fieldbus
- Comparison between Profibus PA and FF
- Publisher/subscriber model
- Physical layer
- Frame structure
- Link active scheduler
- Function blocks
- Device descriptions
Accreditation
BTS attendance certificate(s) will be issued to each participant who completed the course.
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