Descripción
DCS480 is a five-day course that teaches technicians and new hires with no prior experience in distributed control systems to engineers, operate and commission a Yokogawa CENTUM VP system.
It starts with the fundamentals of DCS architecture and the CENTUM VP engineering environment, then progresses through continuous control with function block diagrams, digital logic and sequence control, operator graphics and alarm management on the Human Interface Station (HIS), and finally Modbus RTU and TCP communication for integrating third-party field devices.
Along the way it covers field control station (FCS) hardware and I/O nodes, redundancy and the Vnet/IP control network; projects, domains, plant hierarchy and station types in System View; PID control block configuration, tuning parameters, and cascade and ratio basics; calculation, timer, counter and alarm detection blocks; faceplates, window calls, alarm priorities and real-time and historical trends; and the diagnostics, backup and version control that keep a running system maintainable.
