Highlight: Automation Technique
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Process Visualization
Structure of process visualization • Total overview • Subordinated overviews • Unit pictures • Detail pictures • Picture in picture.
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Open Loop / Closed Loop Controls
Example: Control of boiler drum level • Supervision of closed loop controllers • Discoupling of physically coupled closed loop controllers • PID controllers • Adaptive closed loop controllers • Nonlinear closed loop controllers • Safety control loops / controllers.
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Continuous Function Charts (CFC)
General design of functional charts • Design of modular function charts • Standardization of modular functional charts • Design of macro modules • Designs of SFCs and CFCs according to IEC 61131-3 and VGB R170.
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Sequence Controls / Step Function Charts (SFC)
Start up sequence control (SFC) • Shut down sequence control (SFC) • Emergency shut down scenarios • Designs of SFCs and CFCs according to IEC 61131-3 and VGB R170.
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Philosophy of Alarming
Alarm categories • Appropriate definition of warning and alarm limit values • Unified denomination and display • Emergency alarms • Adjustment of documents.
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Data Tables
List of measurements • Remote I/O list • List of electrical consumers • List of limit values and alarm values • List of parameters • List of setpoint values • Bus signal lists • Cable lists • Design and listing of labels, etc.