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APC and Other Process Control Technologies (*Updated)

Updated : 2025.03.31

Status: Report
Course Number
TR-5-23
Title / Theme
APC and Other Process Control Technologies (*Updated)
Dates
2023.09.19〜2023.10.06
Objectives
For persons who have mastered DCS-related engineering to some extent, to provide a wide range of knowledge and practical skills in conventional control theories, PID tuning, APC skills, and the latest control technologies.
Main Topics
1. Lecture and Practice
・Overview of Japanese petroleum industry
・Control theory (feedback control, PID control, model predictive control)
・Basic process control practice using DCS simulator connected to a miniature plant (PID parameter tuning)
・Practice of model predictive control simulator
・3D Digital Twin technology 
・Modular Procedural Automation (MPA)
・Cybersecurity
・Safety instrument system(SIS)

2. Site Visit:
・Sensing device manufacturers: Technology of level gauge
Application Deadline
2023.07.21
Qualification
Engineers with a university degree and at least 5 years’ experience in process control, plant operation, or DCS, or those with equivalent qualification
Project Report

This course was held to learn about the fundamentals and latest technologies of process control from basic PID control to latest APC through lectures, practices and visits of Japanese company.

Participating Countries
Cambodia, Iraq, Mexico, Myanmar, Oman, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Vietnam
Number of Participants
12
Site Visits
Endress+Hauser Yamanashi Co., Ltd.
Others
* Further course details will be announced three (3) months before the start of the course.
Report (Japanese)
Report (English)