Fieldbus Engineering and Application Course

Course Overview:

This course serves as an introduction as well as an advanced tutorial on the FOUNDATION Fieldbus technology since at the end of this five-day course, you would be ready to work in the appropriate FFB environments.

The need for data communication and automation in a building, engineering, industrial, or even an oil and gas site is rapidly expanding and new standards have to be set to meet the requirements. 

The course uses multi methodologies such as function blocks, loop scheduling, diagnostics, and redundancy which further help delve deeper in to the advanced FTF technologically driven world. So, whether you’re looking for optimised safety or operational efficiency, this technology will meet your goals and standards. 

The course will also be beneficial for managers looking for efficient strategies to control process systems.

Course Objectives:

Upon the successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the benefits of using Fieldbus technology
• Understand the difference between Fieldbus technology and the traditional communication technologies.
• Describe how does data get where it's needed -- and when it's needed
• Determine when a function block or communication action begins?
• Describe how do you avoid overlapping communications when you have more than one loop on the same segment?
• Explain how can you accommodate both fast and slow loops?
• To manage the internal processing that turns the inputs into

Who Should Attend?

This five-day instructional program covering the educational needs of Instrumentation and Control Engineers & Technicians, Operation Engineers, Process and Utility Supervisors, and Technical Supervisory personnel taking a first look at Fieldbus technology. No specific prerequisite training or experience required for registration.

Course Outlines:

Introduction to Foundation Fieldbus

• What is the FOUNDATION Fieldbus?
• The digital bus advantage
• An established standard
• Interoperability
• Safe and effective process control

Fieldbus Communications

• The communications model
• Physical layer
• Datalink and application layers
• User layer
• Scheduled communications
• Unscheduled communications
• Parameter status
• Application clock
• Link active scheduler
• Device address assignment
• Find tag service

Loop Scheduling

• Basic scheduling
• Multiple loops on the same segment

Fieldbus Blocks

• FOUNDATION Fieldbus function blocks
• Basic FOUNDATION Fieldbus function blocks
• Advanced FOUNDATION Fieldbus function blocks
• How do function blocks get into devices?
• Instantiating blocks into devices
• Device descriptions

Diagnostics with Fieldbus

• More than device maintenance
• Equipment diagnostics
• Loop diagnostics
• Improving plant performance
• Reducing process variability
• Improving process availability
• Enhancing safety and environmental compliance
• Managing alarms and alerts

Fieldbus Interoperability

• Field-device interoperability
• Testing devices for interoperability
• When device capabilities evolve
• Host-system interoperability
• Off-line interoperability

Reliability and Redundancy

• Total system reliability
• How much redundancy is enough?
• Transmitter redundancy
• Valve and piping redundancy
• Control redundancy
• Host redundancy options
• Other redundancy options
• Link active scheduler and backup LAS

Network Wiring Fundamentals

• A Fieldbus advantage
• Basic segment design
• Wire types and segment lengths
• Total segment length
• Mixing wire types on a segment

Network Wiring Options

• Tree and branch topologies
• Combining conduit and armored cable
• Non-conduit options: tree
• Non-conduit options: branch
• Using existing wiring and junction boxes

Segment Hardware

• Required and application-dependent components
• Power supply
• Power conditioners
• Terminators
• Repeaters
• Intrinsic safety barriers

Project Engineering Standards

• Field device specifications
• Segment design practices
• P&IDs
• Loop sheets
• Segment design drawings
• Cable schedules
• Installation practices
• More on installation practices
• Project schedules

Choosing a Host System

• Supplier experience
• Designed for Fieldbus
• Access to validated device data
• Fieldbus redundancy options
• Interoperability testing
• Ease of commissioning and testing
• Predictive maintenance

Control Design

• Plant philosophy
• It's more than PID
• Control modularity
• Field control location
• Potential exceptions
• Maintenance and purchasing considerations

Segment Design

• Designing for loop criticality
• Mission-critical loops
• Highly important loops
• Normal-importance loops
• View-only or data acquisition loops
• Process modularity
• Multivariable devices
• Host system considerations
• Design resources

Commissioning

• Using pre-configured devices
• Using un-configured devices
• Tagging devices
• Attaching devices
• Calibration and scaling

Checkout and Troubleshooting

• Wiring check
• Voltage check
• Signal check
• Signal waveforms