ISA Training for Instruments Maintenance and Control

This class focuses on the knowledge and skill-sets required to function as an instrument maintenance technician. The electrical skill-sets possessed by a trained electrician will serve as a basis for expansion to include the skill-set required to maintain an instrument control system. Process measurement techniques, measurement, and control equipment, calibrations techniques, and calibration equipment will be discussed and utilized in numerous hands-on lab sessions. The knowledge and skill-sets gained from attending this class will lead the student to become an asset to an I&E maintenance team.

xAt the end of this course, the participants will be able to:

Introduce students to instrument documentation for proper document interpretation

Review physics terminology and definitions, math functions, and engineering unit assignments as used in the instrumentation field

Introduce instrument calibration equipment and its proper utilization

Discuss process control and measurement fundamentals and related equipment

Discuss analog/digital transmission signals

Relay proper use of HART communicators

Discuss process control valve elements, makeup, and function

Provide proper calibration techniques for transmitters and control valves

Practice loop wiring connections, calibrations, equipment configurations/operations

Discuss instrument troubleshooting techniques

Discuss process control fundamentals

Electricians assigned the additional responsibilities of instrument maintenance

Technicians with electrical skills cross-training into the instrument discipline

Supervisors needing to audit/ evaluate a cross-training program for their employees

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