Introduction to Control and Instrumentation

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides an overview of the basic principles of control systems and instrumentation used in industry, and the profitability and quality of the product or service obtained from an improved process or system.

Instrumentation and control is the nervous system of industrial complexes, power generation, and basically all the processes that require some intelligence to accomplish the task of producing a product or process. When a process is modified to improve its function, the best and most economic change of the system is to improve the control and occasionally the instrumentation areas. The efficiency of the controls reflects directly in the profitability and quality of the product or service obtained from a process or system.

This presentation will walk you through the elements that make a control system and present to you the most common instrumentation used in industry. It describes basics of control loops, configuration, including control loop and its elements. It also describes instrumentation for pressure, flow, level and temperature, explaining their physical principles, and common applications. Introduction to motor controls is included in the last section of the course. Basic motor control schematics for simple motor starters are explained. Finally, basic description of a of modern motor control center is presented.

This 1 PDH online course is applicable to electrical, chemical, and mechanical engineers, as well as project managers in industry, who are interested either in learning more about control systems and instrumentation or wish to refresh basic control and instrumentation concepts.