Ovation® Operator (OV010-WIN)

Duration
2.5 Days

Scheduled Dates

• Classes offered upon request in 2008. Please contact the Training Registrar at 412-963-3900.

Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.

Description
OV010-WIN is designed to provide students with the ability to efficiently perform routine plant operations using the Ovation® control system. Key topics include data acquisition, process analysis, and control interfaces. Students will be able to use the tools provided to monitor processes controlled by the Ovation system, and will learn to take appropriate actions to control these processes. This course is intended for all operations personnel using the Ovation system in a Windows environment.

Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, using the reference material provided, the student will be able to:

1. List the major components of the Ovation control system
2. Display process diagram graphics
3. Use process diagrams to interface with the control system
4. Evaluate point alarm conditions and acknowledge emergent alarms
5. Differentiate various point types and use the Point Information system to find and edit point records
6. Create live and historical trends
7. Navigate through control tuning diagrams
8. Analyze system problem conditions
9. Use system reporting procedures
10. Describe the function of Ovation applications icons
11. Demonstrate familiarity with menu bars and tool bars in various process diagram windows
12. Demonstrate familiarity with the task bar and other Windows utilities

Course Components

Module 1

• Examine the typical Ovation system
• Understand the roles of the different MMIs
  • Operator workstation
  • Engineering workstation
  • Database Software Server
  • Domain controller
  • eDB and Ovation Process Historian (OPH)
  • Other MMIs such WAVE, EDS, OPC Server
• Describe an implemented control strategy from field inputs to indications and field outputs
• Describe the functions of basic logic (digital) and modulating (analog) algorithms used in typical control strategies
• Identify the functions of various I/O symbols used on the functional control diagrams
• Identify algorithms that typically interface with graphic controls
• Use the Control Layer menu with functional diagrams to turn supplemental information on and off

Module 2

• Explain the function and capabilities of the Ovation Alarm System
• Recognize and understand all the information the alarm screen provides
• Operate an alarm screen using functions such as Point Acknowledge, Page Acknowledge and Reset as well as all right-click functions
• Set up Normal Mode and Priority Mode filters to display essential alarms

Module 3

• Explain the function and capabilities of the Ovation process diagrams
• Understand the concept of poke fields and use right-click functions
• Navigate through the process diagrams
• Operate soft MA stations and other control graphics
• Understand signal diagrams and common algorithms

Module 4

• Explain the function and capabilities of the trend display
• Demonstrate how to build both live and historical trends
• Demonstrate how to change limits to properly display both analog and digital trends
• Load more than one trend window at a time
• Save trends to a folder for later access

Module 5

• Explain the function and capabilities of Point Information
• Understand the concept of record types and their respective record fields
• Describe how to search and filter for points
• Demonstrate how to modify a point’s value, alarm limits, alarm deadbands, and quality
• Demonstrate how to locate a hardware point using Point Information

Module 6

• Explain the function and capabilities of the Point Review
• Demonstrate how to set point review filters
• Use Point Review to display points based on quality, unexpected plant status, point name, and point groups
• Demonstrate how to modify a point’s scan status, alarm check, limit check, and quality

Module 7

• Explain the function and capabilities of the Point Viewer
• Demonstrate how to set point view filters
• Demonstrate adding and removing columns and changing font to customize for printing

Module 8

• Explain the function and capabilities of the Error Log
• Demonstrate how to set point view filters
• Demonstrate adding and removing columns and changing font to customize for printing

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