If you work in the industrial sector and would like to find out about the key aspects of these systems HMI and SCADA If you want to make a career in industrial automation, now is your chance, with the Course on HMI and SCADA Systems in Industrial Processes You will be able to acquire the necessary knowledge to design interfaces that support this type of work.
Sector-specific
Industry
40 hours
HMI and SCADA Systems in Industrial Processes
Industry
40 hours
Introduction
Objectives
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To know the general operation of a SCADA system.
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Draw up plans implementation and distribution.
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Learning about development tools and the Run-Time programme.
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Design a HMI and SCADA interfaces.
Table of Contents
TEACHING UNIT 1. FUNDAMENTALS OF PROCESS CONTROL AND MONITORING SYSTEMS: SCADA AND HMI
The evolutionary context of visualisation systems
Advanced industrial organisation systems: ERP and MES
Preliminary considerations regarding supervision and control
The concept of “real time” in a SCADA system
Concepts related to SCADA
Definition and characteristics of distributed control systems
SCADA systems versus DCS
Technical and economic feasibility of a SCADA system
The current SCADA developer market
Industrial PCs and expansion cards
HMI operator displays
Features of an HMI screen
Software for programming HMI screens
Tablet PCs
TEACHING UNIT 2. SCADA HARDWARE: MTU, RTU AND COMMUNICATIONS
General operating principle of a SCADA system
Subsystems that make up a command and control system
Components of an RTU, operation and features
Telemetry systems: generic, dedicated and multiplexers
RTU control and communications software
Types of capabilities of an RTU
Enquiries, reports on exceptional grounds and referrals initiated by RTUs
Detection of communication faults
Stages in the implementation of a SCADA system at a site
TEACHING UNIT 3. SCADA SOFTWARE AND OPC UA COMMUNICATION
Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming
Drivers, development tools and runtime
Development tools and the runtime programme
Using databases for storage
Methods of communication between applications: OPC, ODBC, ASCII, SQL and API
The evolution of the OPC protocol to OPC UA (Unified Architecture)
Configuring OPC controls in the SCADA system
TEACHING UNIT 4. FLOOR PLANS AND LAYOUT SKETCHES
Symbols and diagrams
Identification of instruments and functions
Symbols used in process control
Design of layout and floor plans
Types of symbols
Examples of diagrams
TEACHING UNIT 5. INTERFACE DESIGN IN LINE WITH STANDARDS
Basic principles of automated system design
An overview of some standards and methodological guidelines
Industrial design
Design of control and display elements
Colours in service organisations
Location and use of control elements
TEACHING UNIT 6. GEMMA: GUIDE TO THE RUN AND STOP MODES IN AN AUTOMATIC SYSTEM
Origin of the GEMMA guide
The basics of GEMMA
Status rectangles: operational, stopped or fault procedures
Methodology for using GEMMA
Selection of operating and stop modes
Implementation of GEMMA in GRAFCET
Method based on the enrichment of the basic GRAFCET
TASK-based decomposition method: vertical or hierarchical coordination
Alarm handling with GEMMA
TEACHING UNIT 7. DEVELOPMENT MODULES
Common software packages
Configuration module
Graphical user interface tools
Process control utilities
Trending's representation
Alarm and event management tools
Logging and archiving of events and alarms
Reporting tools
Recipe creation tool
Communications settings
TEACHING UNIT 8. INTERFACE DESIGN IN HMI AND SCADA
Initial design criteria
Architecture
Considerations regarding the layout of the screens
Choosing screen navigation
Appropriate use of colour
Correct use of textual information
Appropriate definition of process equipment, states and events
Use of information and process values
Tables and trend charts
Commands and data entry
Correct implementation of alarms
Evaluation of SCADA designs
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