PRO - Process Technology

Provides an introduction to the field of Instrumentation and covers process variables and the various instruments used to sense, measure, transmit and control these variables. This course also introduces control loops and the elements that are found in different types of loops, such as controllers, regulators and final control elements. The course concludes with a study of instrumentation drawings and diagrams and a unit on troubleshooting instrumentation.

Introduces the student to switches, relays and annunciator systems and moves on to discuss signal conversion and transmission. Controllers, control schemes and advanced control schemes are covered at a level appropriate for the process technician. The student then moves on to learn about digital control, programmable logic control and distributed control systems before ending the course with a discussion of instrumentation power supplies, emergency shutdown systems and instrumentation malfunctions.