All courses are held at Crown Training & Development, Merrillville, IN
This course is a comprehensive overview of medium voltage circuit breakers used in industrial applications and covers main components, operation (single-line, 3 line diagram, connection and interconnection diagrams) and minor maintenance. It also covers the insertion/removal (Racking) of circuit breakers, arc-flash protection, safety, and PPE requirements.
Topics include: Status indicators, protective relaying (ANSI/IEE device numbering), and substation components, Control schemes: stored energy and magnetic, X-Y anti-pump control circuit, and breaker trip circuits.
PREREQUISITES None
LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
This course covers installation, calibration, and maintenance of measurement devices.
An examination of the devices used in measurement and control systems, such as PID (Proportional, Integral, and Derivative) controllers, transmitters, transducers, and recorders are covered.
Topics include: loop characteristics, test equipment, calibration, and configuration, maintenance and installation, working in hazardous locations, and trends. Reading and interpreting advanced Piping and Instrument Drawings (P&ID) will also be included.
PREREQUISITES Knowledge of Basic Instrumentation
LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
This course provides project leaders and maintenance managers with an overview of the different types of process plant shutdowns (planned, unplanned, emergency), managing events, efficient plant turnarounds and start-up philosophies.
Topics include: 5 phases – initiating, planning, executing, controlling, closing. Disaster recovery, scheduling, estimation, contractor and safety management, managing human resources, tracking critical milestones and post shut down review.
TOTAL HOURS 16
PREREQUISITES None
LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
This course consists of subjects designed to provide an understanding of the various drives, which make up a process line and the application of electric motors, controls, and power supplies needed to satisfy their requirements. Practical application problems will be solved as part of the course.
Included in the course are discussions on DC Motors, AC Motors, Multiple Motor Drives, Bridles, Helper Drives, Generators, Thyristor Power Supplies, Variable Frequency Power Supplies, Reels, Storage Devices, Levelers, and Side Trimmers.
A practical discussion of the principles of bridle operation and the engineering required to obtain successful operation will be reviewed. An in depth discussion of reels, their components, and their operation on various types of process lines will be presented.
Tension Analysis calculations of a typical line will be discussed including how to calculate and handle bending and friction losses. During this course, students are encouraged to bring up particular problems for analysis.
PREREQUISITES None
LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
This course reviews and then build upon the concepts of proportional, integral and derivative control with advanced topics such as cascade, ratio and feed-forward control being covered.
Various methods of controller tuning are reviewed and practiced. Control loop troubleshooting techniques for single-loop and multi-loop systems are included. A review of reading and interpreting advanced Piping and Instrument Drawings (P&ID) is also covered.
PREREQUISITES Knowledge of Basic Instrumentation and Troubleshooting & Applied Instrumenation
LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
Participants will configure a project and I/O Drivers to communicate with Cimplicity. Create and edit Point Database Tags and Graphic Screens. Configure a system for operator controls, alarming, logging, and security. Develop and modify operator screens, alarm viewers, and trend charts.
PREREQUISITES Working knowledge of Windows environment
LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
This course presents an introduction to Weighing Systems.
The following topics are covered: Tension strain gage load cells, motion weighing, how a load cell works, how to troubleshoot load cell and weighing systems, calibration methods, and how Handbook 44 applies to weighing systems.
PREREQUISITES None
LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
This is a two-day class designed to improve your ability to read and interpret piping and instrument diagrams.
Topics include: the importance of P&IDs, identifying and describing the parts of a typical P&ID, using a legend sheets to identify symbols and labels used in a P&ID, explanation of instrument and control loops, redlining and marking-up a P&ID, submitting redlines and verification of corrected P&IDs.
TOTAL HOURS 16
PREREQUISITES None
LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
This course is for engineering and maintenance personnel responsible for installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting drive systems that utilize the PowerFlex AC Drive.
Topics include: Configuration switches and jumpers within the drive, drive terminal points, critical drive parameters, using the keypad to view and change parameters, reading and interpreting control block diagrams, using the display to aid in troubleshooting. .
Labs include: Configuration and start-up the drive, interface the drive with a PLC, configuring Digital I/O, Speed References, Skip Frequencies, Ramp Rates, Stop Modes, using Drive Software, Troubleshooting, and configuring COMM modules for data transfer.
PREREQUISITES None
LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN
This course is an introduction to computer-aided drafting (CAD) using the AutoCAD software program.
This course comprises topics including: graphics and text windows, user interface, basic commands, creating drawings, editing drawings, organizing, printing, dimensioning, annotating, creating templates, and advanced layouts, and an introduction to 3-D.
Poly-lines and splines, hatching, printing, creating and setting up paper space layouts, blocks, attributes, and external references are also covered.
PREREQUISITES Prior experience with Microsoft Windows
LOCATION Crown Training and Development, Merrillville, IN