Areas of Study
Process Automation 101
This entry-level three-day course is the
foundation course in the study of process
automation. The student will develop an
understanding of the fundamental objectives of
process automation and of the basic components
that make up a process automation system. The
student will be qualified at the end of the course
to take his or her place on a process line or on a
plant floor with an overview understanding of
how his or her job and equipment fit into the
structure of the plant process. The student will
learn about the instrumentation used in
processes, basic print-reading, about I/O and
how PLC’s work, about HMI’s and how to
operate screens, and will be able to perform
basic first-echelon operational tasks.
Process Automation 101 is the prerequisite
course for many other College of Automation
courses. Passing scores in the College of
Automation Training Assessment Protocol
(COATAP) may substitute for this course as a
prerequisite for other courses.
Course Advisor: Scott Young
Length: 3 days
Cost: $779*
Instrumentation 101
This entry-level one-day course lays a
foundation for understanding the role of
instrumentation in a process plant controls
automation system. The student will learn how
instruments of measurement and recording are
installed, wired, and integrated into the whole
system. The student will be qualified at the end
of the course to
take his or her
place on a
process line or
in a plant
maintenance
department
with a basic
understanding
of how
instrumentation is used and maintained, and how
it impacts his or her own process job. The
student will learn about the different types of
instruments, the vocabulary of instrumentation,
and the common failures of instrumentation, and
will be able to perform basic first-echelon
operational and maintenance tasks on plant
automation instrumentation.
This course covers the subject of
instrumentation in more detail than the
instrumentation component of Process
Automation 101. Students who have taken
Process Automation 101 and who need
additional entry-level instruction on
instrumentation will find this course appropriate.
The course is also appropriate for students who
have a basic level understanding of process
automation, yet need specific instruction in
instrumentation.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 1 day
Cost: $309*
Instrumentation 201 - Anderson AV990
This one-day course is appropriate for workers
who are responsible to configure, use and
troubleshoot the Anderson AV9900 Safety
Thermal Limit Recorder (STLR) device. The
course is taught by an Anderson Instrumentsauthorized
Mission Controls technician. In this
course, the student will learn the basics of
configuring the device, will learn the common
failure modes of
the device and its
connected
instrumentation,
and will learn
how to deal with
such failures. The
student will learn
how to properly
use the STLR
charts, and how
to fulfill the
operator’s legal
responsibilities.
The instrumentation component of Process
Automation 101 presents basic introductory
information concerning this instrument and is
not a substitute for this course.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 1 day
Cost: $309*
Instrumentation 202 - Anderson TMF-100 Flowmeter
The Anderson TMF-100 sanitary
electromagnetic flowmeter is used extensively in
dairy, fluid food and beverage processing plants.
This course is appropriate for workers who have
responsibilities which include the operation,
first-echelon maintenance and troubleshooting
of this device.
In this one-day course the student will learn the
specifications of the instrument, the specifics of
how it is installed and how it is employed in
food and beverage applications, I/O
configuration, and the basics of troubleshooting
the instrument as part of an integrated controls
system. Programming issues will also be
covered. The course is taught by an Anderson
Instruments-authorized Mission Controls
technician. The instrumentation component of
Process Automation 101 presents basic
introductory information concerning this
instrument and is not a substitute for this course.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 1 day
Cost: $309*
Instrumentation 203 - Anderson Level Sensors
The Anderson line of instrumentation includes
level sensors for a variety of applications for
balance tanks, CIP tanks, stationary filler bowls,
scrape surface processors, high-shear mixers,
tanks without bottom access, and others. This
course is appropriate for workers who have
responsibilities which include the operation,
first-echelon maintenance and troubleshooting
of this device.
This one-day course will teach the student how
to select the proper level sensor for the student’s
particular applications, how to install and wire
the instrument, how to calibrate it, and how to
troubleshoot it. The student will learn how to
make programming calculations and how to
program for integration of level sensors.
The course is taught by an Anderson
Instruments-authorized Mission Controls
technician. The instrumentation component of
Process Automation 101 presents basic
introductory information concerning this
instrument and is not a substitute for this course.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 1 day
Cost: $309*
Instrumentation 204 - Anderson HTST Instruments
This intensive one-day course will train the
HTST worker to recognize and understand the
functioning of the complete line of Anderson
instrumentation used in HTST pasteurization
systems. This course differs from
Instrumentation 101 in that it is specific to
HTST systems, and specific to the Anderson line
of instrumentation.
The course will relate the industry-standard
Anderson line of instrumentation directly to the
requirements of an HTST system, with specific
references to the requirements of the Pasteurized
Milk Ordinance (PMO) requirements in each
case. Technical aspects, power and legal wiring,
setup and use of the instruments, calibration
fundamentals and troubleshooting will be
covered in this course.
Upon completion of this course the student will
be able to recognize, assist in wiring and
commissioning, operate, and conduct basic
maintenance and troubleshooting on the
Anderson line of HTST instruments. The course
is taught by an Anderson Instruments-authorized
Mission Controls technician. The
instrumentation component of Process
Automation 101 is not a substitute for this
course.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 1 day
Cost: $309*
Prints 101
This entry level, one-day course is a prime
prerequisite and component for understanding
how plant processes function. The student will
learn how drawings and prints are used to depict
actual plant process and electrical operations.
The student will be qualified at the end of the
course to read electrical prints, P&ID’s and asbuilt
drawings with reference to symbols
libraries. The student will learn how to follow
the flow of electricity, and will be able to
navigate through a process by reference to
P&ID’s and other process flow diagrams, and to
understand how the process functions, by
reference to P&ID’s.
This course covers the subject of print and P&ID
reading in more detail than the print-reading
component of Process Automation 101.
Students who have taken Process Automation
101 and who need additional entry-level
instruction on print reading will find this course
appropriate. The course is also appropriate for
students who have a basic understanding of
process automation, yet need specific instruction
in print reading.
Course Advisor: Jerry Muscolo
Length: 1 day
Cost: $309*
PLCs 101
This entry-level two-day
course is general about
PLC’s and specific about
Allen-Bradley PLC’s. The
student will learn how PLC’s are integrated into
a controls system, how they are placed in
controls panels, what information they receive,
how they send commands to devices on the plant
floor, and how they integrate data into higher
plant information systems. The student will be
qualified at the end of the course to recognize
PLC’s among other panel hardware, to recognize
displayed faults and to make simple
connections, and will be able to perform basic
operations and first-echelon maintenance tasks
on PLC’s. The student will have a basic
understanding of how ladder logic is constructed
and how it is used to program PLC’s.
This course, or corresponding level of
knowledge, is a prerequisite to advanced PLC
and programming courses.
This course will cover the subject of PLC’s in
more detail
than the PLC
component of
Process
Automation
101. Students
who have
taken Process
Automation
101 and who
need more indepth
understanding of PLC’s in order to take
advanced PLC and programming courses will
find this course appropriate.
Course Advisor: Brent Boisen
Length: 2 days
Cost: $554*
PLCs 201 - Ladder Logic
This two-day course is appropriate for students
who have taken PLC’s 101 or who have a
corresponding knowledge of the role and
functioning of PLC’s in a process plant.
The student will learn how to create ladder logic
used to program logic controllers for automation
controls applications. The student will learn how
to configure I/O and how files are handled in
ladder logic. Included also is instruction in
configuration of modules and processors. The
student will learn how to use ladder editors, and
about data monitoring and the documentation of
ladder logic. The course will also include
techniques of ASCII import and ASCII export.
The student will be able to write simple ladder
logic, and will have a foundation for practice of
advanced ladder logic techniques.
Course Advisor: Brent Boisen
Length: 2 days
Cost: $554*
Pasteurization 101
This entry-level two-day course will prepare the
student to perform basic operations in an HTST
pasteurization process and will impart the
fundamentals necessary to continue study
toward a license in pasteurization. The course is
general to pasteurization and specific to HTST
systems. The student will be able at the end of
the course to recognize and differentiate the
various components of a pasteurization system
and follow the flow of product through a
pasteurization system. The student will have a
basic understanding of the recording and legal
aspects of pasteurization and will know what
instrumentation is used to provide and record
pasteurization data. The student will know how
to properly
change and
annotate a
recording chart,
and will have a
basic
understanding of
CIP requirements
in pasteurization.
This course or
corresponding
level of
knowledge is a
prerequisite for
advanced
pasteurization
courses leading
to a license in pasteurization.
This course covers the subject of pasteurization
in significantly more detail than the
pasteurization component of Process
Automation 101.
Process
Automation 101
will give the student
an overall
understanding of
how pasteurization
is accomplished and
how pasteurization
is integrated in a
process plant, but
Pasteurization 101
is recommended for students who will work in a
pasteurization system.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 2 days
Cost: $554*
Pasteurization 201 - Troubleshooting
This two-day advanced-level course is
appropriate for students who have taken
Pasteurization 101 or who have a
corresponding level of knowledge of
pasteurization. The course is general to
pasteurization and specific to HTST
pasteurization systems and will give managers,
supervisors and maintenance personnel specific
training in identifying and correcting HTST
problems quickly and efficiently. The course will
also give students the knowledge and skills to
prepare in advance for legal inspections of
HTST systems.
This course will focus tightly on the HTST
failures that cause downtime and quality
problems, and on the techniques to find those
failures and solve them in a logical, step-by-step
manner.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 2 days
Cost: $554*
Pasteurization 301 - Certification Prep
The State of
California issues
Pasteurizer licenses
valid for a period of
two years. This
advanced-level
three-day course prepares the student to take the
Pasteurizer’s examination.
The course covers the full range of
pasteurization topics as they pertain to milk and
dairy foods, with emphasis on preparing the
student to recognize and respond correctly to
examination questions. As a result of taking this
course, the student will have been exposed to all
the material covered on the examination, with
specific emphasis on examination questions and
answers, built into a thorough understanding of
the pasteurization process and the California
legal requirements which licensed Pasteurizers
and pasteurization systems must meet.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 3 days
Cost: $779*
CIP 101
This entry-level one-day
course will prepare the
student to perform basic
CIP operations in a
process plant at an entry
level of proficiency. The
student will be able at the
end of the course to
recognize and
differentiate the various
components of a CIP
system, will know how each component
functions and how they all relate. The student
will know how to recognize signs of CIP failure,
and will be able to understand basic instructions
relating to the operation of a CIP system, and
will be able to take simple positive actions under
supervision to operate a segment of a CIP
system. The student will know the vocabulary of
CIP, and will know the various types of CIP.
This course covers the subject of CIP in more
detail than the CIP component of Process
Automation 101. It is appropriate for operators
in a CIP system who have taken Process
Automation 101 or who have a corresponding
level of knowledge, but who need additional CIP
training to perform their entry-level jobs.
Course Adviser: TBD
Length: 1 day
Cost: $309*
CIP 201 - Troubleshooting CIP Systems
This one-day course is appropriate for students
who already have a basic knowledge of how a
CIP system functions. The purpose of the course
is to teach personnel with CIP supervision or
operational responsibilities how to isolate the
various aspects of a CIP system so they can
identify problem spots. This identification will
enable the supervisor or
operator to initiate
appropriate corrective
actions.
The course will include
instruction on the various
components: pulsing
valves, temperature
control measurement and
control devices, flow
control measurement and
control devices, other
field instrumentation and
valves, and PLC software and programming.
The student will learn how to evaluate a failed
system and identify the component that has
failed. Some remedies will be covered.
Course Adviser: TBD
Length: 1 day
Cost: $309*
Downtime Tracking
This one-day advanced course is appropriate for
plant personnel who must plan for the
installation of MES/ERP
capabilities to track
downtime, which is
increasingly recognized
as a critical ROI and plant
operation efficiency
function.
The student will learn
how the components of a
tracking system all work
together, how to
configure reports, and
how to supervise the
installation and operation of a downtime
tracking system. The course will also describe
potentials of a downtime tracking system that
are not usually obvious, increasing the value of
such a system. Troubleshooting a downtime
tracking system will also be covered.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 1 day
Cost: $309*
ISA S88 101
This two-day advanced course is designed for
plant personnel who must plan and supervise
batch operations utilizing the S88 model.
The course will enable the student to apply the
S88 model to a process, design code to make the
process fit the model, and design recipes. The
student will gain a basic understanding of S88
terminology, and will learn how to divide
process equipment to follow the model,
understand functional divisions, and apply the
concepts to a real process application.
The student will be able to recognize and
explain unit classes and phase classes, explain
how class-based recipes are developed, and
explain code structuring. The student will
understand how process is made modular, and be
able to apply that understanding to the
development of a real-life
S88 process application.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 2 days
Cost: $554*
RSLogix 101
This advanced, two-day
course is suitable for plant
personnel who oversee
RSLogix-based systems in
a process or manufacturing plant, and for
personnel who must program and maintain such
systems, who have good computer skills but
little or no experience with programming in
RSLogix.
The course will cover installing the software,
data file structure and addressing, configuring
communications, creating your first program,
relay type instructions, and establishing timers
and counters. The course will enable the student
to develop basic-level programming using
RSLogix and will build a platform for
developing skill through practice and
application. Significant hands-on lab time for
practical exercise is included.
Course Advisor: Brent Boisen
Length: 2 days
Cost: $554*
RSLogix 201 - Advanced Programming
This advanced, two-day course is suitable for
plant personnel who program and maintain
systems built around RSLogix.
The course will cover advanced instruction
available in the Allen-Bradley controllers, and
will teach and give the student practical
experience in developing sequencers, bit shifts,
math instructions and comparisons. Significant
hands-on lab time is included in this course.
Course Advisor: Brent Boisen
Length: 2 days
Cost: $554*
Visual Basic 101
This two-day advanced course will provide the
student with an understanding of how Visual
Basic is used, develop primary ability to use the
Visual Basic tools, and enable the student to
create simple programming to accomplish
specific applications in the iFIX environment.
On completion of this course, the student will be
able to recognize the components of a Visual
Basic project and identify its modules and
forms, set up a Visual Basic project using
correctly established naming conventions and
events, manage variables, and create viable
database coding on an elemental level.
The course will establish a fundamental level of
understanding of the use of Visual Basic and a
platform for advanced Visual Basic training and
for development of Visual Basic programming
skills through practice and application.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 2 days
Cost: $554*
InTouch 101
This two-day advanced course will enable the
student to construct and commission animated
HMI screens using Wonderware InTouch
software.
The course will teach the student how to create
objects, both simple and complex, and tag
names, how to use the animation features of the
software, and how to establish communications
with PLC’s and networks.
On completion of the course, the student will
have the ability to initiate a project utilizing
InTouch software, create tag names and a tag
name database, create and animate objects, and
set up linkages necessary to communicate with
PLC’s and networks. The student will have
established a base of knowledge for further
study and practice using InTouch software and
for the development of increasingly complex
tasks. Significant hands-on lab time is included
in this course.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 2 days
Cost: $554*
iFIX 101
This advanced two-day course will enable the
student to construct and commission simple
animated HMI/SCADA screens using Intellution
iFIX software.
The course will teach the
student how to use the
iFIX navigation system
for finding files, how to
construct screens and
animate them, modify
objects, integrate ActiveX controls, access and
display data from relational databases, establish
trending, provide reporting, and construct and
manage alarms.
On completion of this course, the student will be
able to construct simple animated iFIX HMI
screens and will have a base of knowledge for
further study and practice using iFIX. The
course includes significant hands-on practical
exercise.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 2 days
Cost: $554*
RSView 101
This advanced two-day course is suitable for
plant personnel who oversee RSView HMI
systems, and for personnel who must program
and maintain such systems.
RSView is a Rockwell Software product used
with Windows NT to develop HMI systems that
can be integrated with databases for active
linkage, so the HMI screens display constantly
updated information.
At the end of this course, the student will have a
basic understanding of how to use RSView to
build and maintain HMI’s, and a platform for
developing skill through further study and
practice. Significant hands-on lab time is
included.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 2 days
Cost: $554*
IBatch 101
This three-and-a-half-day
Certified advanced course
follows the Intellution
iBatch training syllabus
and an Intellution
Certificate of Training is awarded. The course is
taught by an Intellution-certified instructor. The
course teaches
the student how
to develop a
class-based
batching
application. The
student will
learn how to use
the iBatch
components that
permit
equipment definitions, recipe creation and
management, security functionality and other
21CFR Part 11 considerations, report
management, and overall batching project
management using iBatch. The student will
finish the course with a foundation of knowledge
upon which to build iBatch expertise through
practice and further training. Significant handson
lab time is included.
Course Advisor: TBD
Length: 3 1/2 days
Cost: $892*
Your Main Point © Communications Workshop
By Dr. Bill Wallisch
Your Main Point is a workshop produced and
delivered by Dr. Bill Wallisch, Ed.D. & D. M.
Since retiring as a professor of English and
communications at the United States Air Force
Academy in Colorado Springs, Dr. Wallisch
helps business executives, astronauts,
physicians, police officers and government
staffers put together tight messages that
communicate complicated ideas in a flash.
Your Main Point workshops are available
through Dr. Wallisch directly.
Send inquiries to:
info@missioncontrols.com
Automation Mentoring at Mission Controls
The purpose of this course is to involve the
student in the actual development of an
engineering project specific to the student’s own
plant. The student will work for five days oneon-
one with a Mission Controls engineer
assigned to develop the project, and with the
Mission Controls staff assigned to support the
project. The specific goals of the mentoring will
be established before the start of the course.
Goals may focus on a specific work task of the
student in his/her own plant, or on a particular
controls issue faced by the student in his/her
plant work, or on a controls project that is in
progress at Mission Controls for the student’s
plant.
The emphasis of the course is to involve the
student at the engineering and development level
in a task that directly impacts his/her specific
work at his/her home plant.
Course Advisor: Scott Young
Length: 5 days
Cost: $1,005*
Solution Workshops 1 - 5 Days
The people who interface with a plant’s
automation controls system often require
training specifically designed to provide
solutions that will improve job performance,
solve performance problems, or provide the
training that will enable new or temporary
workers to perform safely and correctly. College
of Automation Solution Workshops provide such
training.
These workshops, one to five days in length,
will be designed to provide the particular
automation controls training to meet specific
training needs, in a workshop specifically
formatted on your process, your equipment, your
particular software. Workshops are often
conducted on site in the plant.
The trainers who teach these workshops are
Mission Controls integration engineers and
technicians whose objective is to make your
system work.
Course Advisor: Scott Young
Length 1 - 5 days
Cost: By arrangement
Many organizations have invested in very
comprehensive information systems and have
then found that Return on Investment is less than
they hoped. Information by itself does not
necessarily change the system nor improve
performance. It is only when people are able to
get, assess, and make choices about data in a
timely fashion that improved performance
actually occurs.
In cooperation with College of Automation,
Misty River Consulting is offering courses that
provide the organizational competency to create
a systematic plant performance information
system. The courses are divided into six
Educational Development Paths, and within
each path are a number of courses of various
lengths and degrees of comprehensiveness.
MN 100 Leadership I: Basic Leadership Skills
This four-day leadership course is appropriate
for leaders and future leaders in a plant’s
organization. The course includes lessons on:
- Managing Time - Staying Focused on What’s Important
- Staying Cool, Calm, and Collected in Any Situation
- The Goal - Sustained Sold Throughput
- Customer True Needs vs. Specifications
- Mapping and Evaluating the Processes
- Facilitating Process Performance Improvement
- Managing and Valuing Workplace Diversity
- Basic Job Training Methods
- Job or Structure Change Management
- Managing Difficult Employees
- Conflict Resolution Management
- Employee Performance Planning and Appraisal
- Effective Employee Discipline
- Employee Personal Problem Management
Length: 4 days
Cost: $2,000*
Statistical Methods I: Basic Statistics
This three-day fun and thought-provoking
course will introduce students to basic graphical
data modeling techniques found in the
traditional, "7 Tools of Quality." In addition,
students will learn the statistical tools that
describe the basic dimensions of the normal
distribution. Students will leave the session able
to plan and help lead basic data collection and
analysis efforts.
The course includes instruction in:
- Run Charts
- Scatterplots
- Histograms
- Pareto Charts
- Central Tendency & Related Statistical Tools
- Range of Dispersion & Related Statistical Tools
Length: 3 days
Cost: $1,500*
* All prices subject to change without notice
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