DCS480: Yokogawa CENTUM VP Training Course

Duration: 5 Days. The delivery format, location and dates are confirmed for each group. Audience: Maintenance technicians, instrumentation technicians and new hires joining  an automation or process control department. 

Prerequisites: None. No prior DCS or CENTUM VP experience is required; a basic  understanding of instrumentation, electrical diagrams and process control concepts is  recommended. 

Course Material: PiControl certificate of completion. Software and equipment  requirements are confirmed for each group.

DCS480 is a five-day course that teaches technicians and new hires with no prior  experience in distributed control systems to engineer, operate and commission a  Yokogawa CENTUM VP system. 

It starts with the fundamentals of DCS architecture and the CENTUM VP engineering  environment, then progresses through continuous control with function block diagrams,  digital logic and sequence control, operator graphics and alarm management on the  Human Interface Station (HIS), and finally Modbus RTU and TCP communication for  integrating third-party field devices. 

Along the way it covers field control station (FCS) hardware and I/O nodes, redundancy  and the Vnet/IP control network; projects, domains, plant hierarchy and station types in  System View; PID control block configuration, tuning parameters, and cascade and ratio  basics; calculation, timer, counter and alarm detection blocks; faceplates, window calls,  alarm priorities and real-time and historical trends; and the diagnostics, backup and  version control that keep a running system maintainable.

At the end of this course, students will be able to: 

• Explain the CENTUM VP architecture: Describe the roles of the HIS, FCS and  engineering station, FCS hardware and I/O nodes, redundancy of controllers, power  and communication, and the Vnet/IP control network. 
• Structure a project in System View: Create a new project and domain, and build  the plant hierarchy and station types the rest of the application depends on. • Build continuous control with FBD: Create and wire function blocks, condition  analog signals, and configure PID control blocks, including tuning parameters and  cascade and ratio basics.
• Build interlocks and simple sequences: Use digital I/O blocks, interlock and  permissive logic, sequence tables and SEBOL basics to build a simple start/stop  sequence. 
• Build operator graphics on the HIS: Create process graphics with dynamic tag  data, faceplates and window calls, and configure alarms, priority levels,  acknowledgment and trends. 
• Connect a field device over Modbus: Configure Modbus RTU and Modbus TCP  communication, master/slave settings and register mapping to exchange data with a  third-party device.