Training course

Target group
The course is targeting operators and personnel who work in a dairy plant and who need to get familiar with the processes and components in a dairy plant.

This course is usually held for groups from same site / company. 

Prerequisites
Knowledge and/or interest in dairy processes and dairy automation & IT. 
This course is often followed by our course no. 18: Get familiar with your control system

Course content

The course will use Au2mate Academy pilot plant as base for the training and covers topics such as:

• Understand how to read a PI diagram  
  Theoretical training in how to read PI diagrams (part of the physical plant)
  Physical introduction to the process sections in Academy in relation to the PI diagram
  How to find components and equipment from the PI diagram on the physical plant
  (machines, valves, electrodes, pumps, etc.)
  
  
• The components of a dairy
  Theoretical presentation of commonly used components such as:
  Valves (double / single seat, butterfly, service, regulation etc).
  Pumps
  Frequency converter
  Level electrodes / Inductive electrodes
  Pressure transmitter / Flow transmitter
  Temperature transmitter / Conductivity transmitter
  
  What is their function?
  How are they connected to the control system?
  Physical introduction to the components in Academy
  How to operate the components manually from the HMI
  Suppression of alarms
  
  
• Process flow in Academy
  Theoretical introduction to the process flow in Academy
  including the function of the process  sections
  Physical introduction (line walk) of the process flow in Academy:
  CIP, tank, mix and pasteur etc.