This course is intended for I&C technicians. No previous experience with the Ovation System is necessary, although some background in computer technology and control systems may be helpful. The Westinghouse Ovation Maintenance Training Course can be taught on several different versions of the Ovation platform.
This course is intended for maintenance technicians that have no previous experience with the Ovation control system, and is designed to provide students with the knowledge and experience necessary to understand operation and troubleshooting methods of the Ovation application.
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 – Operator Applications lab exercise – Ovation Hardware – Controller Cabinets, redundant controllers, modules, cabinet configuration, Ovation I/O modules.
- 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, 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 Hardware Exercise 1.
- Day 4: How OvationTis used as a control system – Ovation algorithms introduction – Ovation Control Builder – Algorithms used in Control Builder, use of Control Builder, relationship between Control Builder and Signal Diagrams, Control macros introduction – Tracking in Ovation – Ovation Hardware Exercise 2 – tying together points, Point Builder, hardware, and Control Builder.
- Day 5: Control Tuning – Basic Balance of Plant (BoP) review – Plant specific system architecture – Introduction to plant specific control sheets – Basic Ovation Networking – Controller / compact flash RAM replacement.
- Day 6: Troubleshooting a digital system – Redundant controller error codes and troubleshooting – Use of Emerson Ovation Fault Information Tool (OVFIT) – Troubleshooting exercises.
- Day 7: Plant specific control sheets (cont.) – Troubleshooting exercises.
- Day 8: Plant specific control sheets (cont.) – Troubleshooting exercises – Specialty modules – calibrating, operation and troubleshooting.
- Day 9: Advance topics – reconcile, compile, search, auditing, communication troubleshooting – Plant specific control sheets (cont.) – Troubleshooting exercises.
- Day 10: Course review – Troubleshooting exercises – Written exam.
