Three milestones in downtime reduction
You need to update you academic knowledge in several electrical engineering subjects for understanding every part of automation system, its functions and its purpose...
You will be getting practical knowledge and experience in designing and programming all most common PLC-based systems, including HMI & WEB graphics, and fault ...
This is a final step. You will be testing you r own alarming and faults displays under the most severe conditions possible. You have to make sure that all conditions tested, documented and ...
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Downtime Reduction School is the first of its kind in North America. We offer a crash course on several subject needed for your success. You will learn and/or update your previous knowledge and experience in the following subjects:*electrical fundamentals, *process control, *instrumentation, *PLC/HMI programming, *WEB design, *networking and WiFi, *rapid troubleshooting, *testing, and *acceptance. All these subjects will be covered here.
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Downtime Reduction School Subjects
Downtime Reduction School is unique. After graduation from the School you will be able to offer the following services:
- Different techniques and methods that will allow you to reduce the time for locating a root-fault to 2 min or so.
- Upgrade your programming knowledge for many PLC-based automation control systems in production..
- Retrain your maintenance crew to help them understanding machine controls within minutes and without prior training.
11. Faults and Alarms
Faults detection and alarms display is the main part of the Downtime Reduction School. This is a crash course and the main part...
1. Electrical Fundamentals
2. Industrial Electronics
3. Process Control
Process control is the most important discipline any plant manager as well as maintenance technician and/or technologist ...
4. Instrumentation
5. Robotics & Pneumatics
6. Programming Tools
8. Programming PLC
9. HMI Graphic Design
10. SCADA Programming
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is a control system architecture that uses the following devices and protocols.....
12. OPC & Remote Access
OPC is and Open Platform Communication protocol. In general, OPC specifies the communication of real-time plant ...
13. Networking and Wi-Fi
14. Programming Methods
All aspects of PLC programming in terms of downtime reduction methodology . Example of a source code for each programming ...
It is always important to get on-job training, when it'savailable. It is also crucial for overall plant productivity to have continuous training of your electricians, PLC technicians, or even your engineering and project management staff. That is why it is a very good notion to upgrade your academic background that oninsides with the inovative technologies, devices, and components. It is greatly important, if you can receive professional guidance on different topics on everehing related to reduction of downtime and learn learn within a short period of time. On-job training is not necessarily the best solution these days, as it's a very slow process compare to the progress of ever-changing technologies, processes, as well as new automation hardware and software. A crash courses that are offered by the Downtime Reduction School will make a noticeable difference to the knowledge level of the present maintenance crew and to a new hire.
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1. Rapid Troubleshooting
2. Engineering Knowledge
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Short Certified Industrial Curses for Knowledge & Proficiency
Since the fall of 2018 Downtime Reduction School is offering industrial multi-disciplinary courses for those of you who needs specific knowlege on several related subjects. They are Six-In-One industrial courses for boosting knowlledge level and improving overal efficiency of your maintenance crew and engineering department. Those cources will be delivered to you in one 8-hour session with additional 8-hour practical training. All cources are certified. Below are the three courses that have been selected for this offer. You can see all topics of the induvidual courses by selecting them from the links or from the short images and descriptions below:
Become Process Control & Become PLC Technician Become Networking Technician
Instrumentation Technician HMI/SCADA Designer PLC Wireless
- Electrical Fundamentals
- Industrial Electronics
- Process Controls
- Instrumentation
- Robotics/Pneumatics
- Machine Vision
- PLC Hardware and Software
- Programming Methods
- Programming Tools
- Programming PLC
- HMI Graphics Design
- SCADA Programming
- PLC Networking
- OPC and Remote Access
- Programming Methods
- Troubleshooting PLC
- Faults and Alarms
- Plant Automation
What Our Students Say
Our main problems has always been to make sure that our electricians can quickly understand a new machinery or process just to be ready to fix them. You have shown us the most appropriate way to teach our electricians and technicians how to convert PLC logic into Boolean, or Gate logic, and use it. We have used gate logic you provided just to test our maintenance crew comprehension. It was a remarkable result. They started navigating PLC control logic within half of an hour. You should see their happy faces! Special thanks for your training on PID loop controllers. Thank you very much for your help and guidance.John Ebron Superintendent, Inco Ltd, Sudbury, Ontario Canada
Your solution was very effective. From now on any troubleshooting goes really fast. Faults and alarms displayed on a touch screen of the operator terminal can show any and all problems. The operator is in a position to make an educated guess what was the problem cause or even to fix it himself without calling an electrician. Special thanks for a unique solution you implemented. That is restoring the last state of our 8-channel ultra-violet disinfection wastewater treatment plant after power interrupt or lightning occur. It still works like a charm! The most impressive was a crash course on PLC programming and troubleshooting you were conducting for 4 days. The simplicity of material you presented was great! Thank you.Chris White Wasterwater Treatment, Plant supervisor, San Bernardino, CA
I had a really positive experience to deeper understand the complexity of the control system you have designed and built. It was amazing to see how your HTML screens are running from the Internet browser allowing us to produce leading, lagging, and active electric power from our wind farm and to transmit that power to the 110 KV power grid. An alarm screen you developed shows problems which have never been displayed before. Now we can see voltage sagging, current fluctuation, lightning strike, and even power grid power quality in terms of reactive. leading and lagging, I really enjoyed your training and support. Thank you very much.Greg Rogers Power Engineer, Indian Mesa, Texas
I couldn't believe that technical problem solving and inventing is not an occasional inspiration but rather a science. You have open a Pandora box to all 50 engineers you were training in finding the best solutions to hundreds of technical situation. The methodology of TRIZ, that is the Theory of Resolving Inventive Solutions, from now on becomes a 'rule of engagement' to our engineering departments, including mechanical, electrical, robotics, as well as to process control and instrumentation department. Now, we started to understand that only inventive solutions can change the world! Thank you very much for your insights.Allen Cordish Engineering Coordinator, Raytheon, Birmingham, AL