This course is intended for system engineers. No previous experience with the Ovation System is necessary, although some background in computer technology and control systems may be helpful. The program can be taught on several different versions of the Ovation platform.
This course is intended for engineers that have no previous experience with the Ovation control system, and is designed to provide students with the knowledge and experience necessary to perform routine tasks with the Ovation-based control system software and hardware. Upon completion of this course students will have the skills necessary to maintain and perform basic modifications to Ovation control and graphics software and the Ovation hardware.
The training program is offered using a combination of student-centered classroom presentations and hands-on learning, using a Westinghouse-supplied Ovation training system.
Course Schedule:
- Day 1: Integrated overview – the purpose of the Ovation system in the nuclear power plant – Ovation overview – communication flow in an Ovation system – Ovation architecture – workstations, communications, controllers, modules.
- Day 2: Ovation operator applications – Alarm Display, Graphics Display, Signal Diagrams, Trend Displays, Error Log, Point Information, Point Review, Ovation System Viewer – Historical Review, and Online Help – Ovation hardware – controller cabinets, redundant controllers, modules, cabinet configuration, Ovation I/O modules – Operator applications lab exercise.
- Day 3: Ovation database – data transmission, point characteristics, types of point records, point alarming, point quality and status, conversion coefficients, sensor limits and dead bands, broadcast frequency, OPP rate, point groups and trends, and Ovation I/O Builder – Control review – process control terminology, control theory, dynamic compensation, soft control in Ovation, functional allocation principles – Ovation database exercise – Ovation hardware exercise 1.
- Day 4: Ovation Control Builder – algorithms used in Control Builder, use of Control Builder, relationship between Control Builder and Signal Diagrams – Control macros – plant application use – Digital control – Digital control exercise.
- Day 5: Analog control – Control tuning and reconciliation – Ovation analog control exercise – Analog control exercise.
- Day 6: Graphics – types of displays, components of process diagrams, display areas, Graphics Builder use – Graphics Builder exercise 1 – Ovation Hardware Exercise 2 – tying together points, Point Builder, hardware, and Control Builder.
- Day 7: Advanced graphics – use of conditionals, graphics macros, linking control to graphics – Hardware exercise – Graphics Builder exercise 2.
- Day 8: Ovation troubleshooting – Troubleshooting exercises – Final project exercise.
- Day 9: Basic system administration – licensing, drop configuration, backup and restore, exporting graphics and control, reconcile, compile, search, auditing – Continue troubleshooting exercises – Continue final project exercise.
- Day 10: Final project completion – Course review – Written exam.
