Roadshow training workshops get a revamp

Over the past nine years, the Process Technology Roadshows have been attended by thousands of engineers. This year, the training workshops have been revamped.

This year’s roadshow series sees a major revision of the workshops, with new content and session styles incorporating some of the latest PC-based remote access and process control technologies.

The 2013 event will feature three training sessions:

• Training session 1: Engineering quiz on process instrumentation with prizes. Attendees will be broken into teams for this fun quiz, with prizes of valuable books awarded for correct answers.
• Training session 2: Demonstration - Design and construct a closed circuit TV (CCTV) system for a mine site and analyse the network traffic.
• Training session 3: Demonstration - Using tunnelling to connect a local OPC client to a remote OPC server via the internet.

In addition, three Mini Lab sessions will be conducted:

• Mini Lab 1: Substation automation. All substations today combine electrical power systems protection with industrial communications systems, such as ethernet. Attendees will perform basic troubleshooting of a typical industrial ethernet system.
• Mini Lab 2: Modbus/TCP. Attendees will simulate and troubleshoot a Modbus/TCP Master communicating with a Modbus/TCP Slave over IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi).
• Mini Lab 3: Attendees will troubleshoot a tuning problem with a flow loop, examining the operation of a flow loop and improving the tuning to make a highly responsive loop.

Notebook computers will be provided for the Mini Lab sessions.

For more information or to register for the 2013 Process Technology Roadshows, click here.