Process Automation Learning Services

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Classroom Courses, 2019 – 2020

Classroom

Courses

2019 – 2021

Process Automation Learning Services

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Catalog Contents

Instructor-Led Classes ... 7

Classes at Our Facilities ... 7

Onsite Classes ... 7

Custom Sessions ... 7

Corresponding Online Learning ... 8

Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) ... 8

Web-Based Training (WBT)... 8

Training Growth Funds ... 8

Global Learning Centers... 9

Asia Pacific ... 9

Europe ... 9

Middle East and Africa ... 9

North America ... 9

South America ... 9

Schedules and Registration ... 10

Standard Foxboro DCS ... 11

2001 Legacy I/A Configuration Essentials ... 12

2001v8 Foxboro Configuration Essentials ... 13

2003 Legacy I/A Series Tools for UNIX ... 14

2004 AIM*AT ... 15

2007 System Administration for Foxboro Systems ... 16

2009 Advanced Foxboro System Administration ... 17

2015 Advanced FoxView Software ... 18

2101 Foxboro Continuous Control ... 19

2102 Foxboro Sequence Control and Ladder Logic ... 20

2103 Advanced Block Configuration Workshop ... 21

2200 Legacy Equipment Maintenance ... 22

2200v8 Foxboro Equipment Maintenance ... 23

2210 Legacy Foxboro Software Maintenance... 24

2210v8 Foxboro System and Software Maintenance ... 25

2211 Foxboro Network Maintenance ... 26

2220 Foxboro Field Device Integration with Modbus ... 27

2221 Foxboro Field Device Integration with OPC ... 28

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2612 I/A Configuration Component ... 33

2625 Foxboro Batch Software ... 34

2652 Foxboro FOUNDATION Fieldbus ... 35

2700 Foxboro Management Overview ... 36

Foxboro DCS ... 37

5001 Control Software Configuration Essentials ... 38

5001FV Control Software Configuration Essentials with FoxView ... 39

5004 Control Software Historian ... 40

5005 Control HMI ... 41

5006 Control HMI Managed ArchestrA Graphics ... 42

5010 System Auditor User Training ... 43

5012 Secured System Administration ... 44

5016 Foxboro DCS Security Administration Advanced ... 45

5090 Foxboro Virtualization Server ... 46

5091 Foxboro SCP280 ... 47

5092 Foxboro SCP280 Tieback ... 48

5101 Control Software Continuous Control ... 49

5101FV Control Software Continuous Control with FoxView ... 50

5102 Programmable Control Editor Tools ... 51

5102FV Programmable Control Editor Tools with FoxView ... 52

5200 Control Software Equipment Maintenance ... 53

5200FV Control Software Equipment Maintenance with FoxView ... 54

5210 Control Software Maintenance ... 55

5210FV Control Software Maintenance with FoxView ... 56

5223 Control Software FDM with HART ... 57

5300 Control HMI Process Operations ... 58

5318 Control HMI Process Operations – Managed Control HMI ... 59

5612 Control Software Control Editor Tools ... 60

5625 Foxboro InBatch ... 61

5652 Control Software FOUNDATION Fieldbus Tools ... 62

5700 Control Software Management Overview ... 63

Foxboro Instruments and Basics ... 64

6211 Process Control Technology ... 65

6212 Process Measurement Technology ... 66

6235 Control Systems Engineering ... 67

6242 Industrial Boiler Control Systems ... 68

6321 Measurement Principles for Technicians ... 69

6323 Intelligent Transmitters ... 70

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Triconex Safety System ... 72

8100 Triconex Cybersecurity ... 73

8300 Triconex Operator Course with HMI ... 74

8601 Triconex General Purpose (Tri-GP) Basic Maintenance ... 75

8601A Triconex General Purpose (Tri-GP) Advanced Maintenance ... 76

8602 Triconex General Purpose (Tri-GP) Configuration and Implementation ... 77

8901 Tricon Basic Maintenance ... 78

8901A Tricon System Advanced Maintenance ... 79

8902 Tricon System and TriStation 1131 Configuration and Implementation ... 80

8903 TriStation 1131 Standard Programming ... 81

8903S Triconex Safety Considerations ... 82

8905 Trident Basic Maintenance ... 83

8905A Trident System Advanced Maintenance ... 84

8906 Trident System and TriStation 1131 Configuration and Implementation ... 85

8907 TriStation 1131 Programming with the HMI ... 86

8921 Tricon CX Basic Maintenance ... 87

8921A Tricon CX Advanced Maintenance ... 88

8922 Tricon CX Configuration and Implementation ... 89

8945 Triconex Safety Validator ... 90

8948 Triconex Safety View ... 91

8950 TriStation 1131 Advanced Programming ... 92

8951 Creating Custom Function Blocks and Libraries ... 93

8963 OPC and Networking Essentials ... 94

8965 Triconex Trilogger Comprehensive ... 95

Functional Safety ... 96

8801 TÜV Functional Safety Engineering Certification (FSEC) ... 97

8802 TÜV Functional Safety Technician Course ... 100

8811 Functional Safety for Burner Management Systems ... 101

8821 Functional Safety for Managers ... 102

EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS ... 103

9001 EcoStruxure Control Expert Configuration ... 104

9002 LL984 Ladder Logic with EcoStruxure Control Expert ... 105

9003 Industrial Networking ... 106

9004 M580 Configuration ... 107

9005 M580 HSBY Configuration ... 108

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9300 EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS Process Operations ... 113

Eurotherm Controllers... 114

3000 Fundamentals of LINtools ... 115

3003 Eurotherm PAC System – T2750 and LINtools ... 116

3004 Eurotherm PAC System – Wonderware PAC Object Binding ... 117

3005 Eycon Configuration ... 118

3006 LINtools – Operations Server and Viewer Fundamentals... 119

3007 Eurotherm PAC System – Data Recording and Store and Forward ... 120

3008 E+PLC400 and E+PLC100 ... 121

3110 Series 2000 Introduction and Operation ... 122

3130 Multiloop Controllers ... 124

3220 Series 6000 User Screens and Data Logging ... 126

3510 Signal Conditioning Action IQ, Ultra Slimpak ... 127

3520 Signal Conditioning Ultra Slimpak II ... 128

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Instructor-Led Classes

Process Automation Learning Services offers courses and services to maximize the expertise of your work force. Our training solutions cover the Schneider Electric™ brands Eurotherm™, Foxboro™, and Triconex™, as well as EcoStruxure™ Hybrid DCS, functional safety, and generic instrumentation and control. Courses are designed to help maximize plant availability and utilization by:

• Establishing consistent methods and applications

• Managing risks through the reducing of incorrect methods, applications, and design

• Maximizing revenue and margins through improved performance

Classes at Our Facilities

Most classes are five or less days in duration, and balance lectures with practical lab exercises.

All Instructors meet our strict standards for Process Automation Learning Services expertise and experience.

Classes are regularly scheduled at the Schneider Electric world-class learning centers in Canada, the United States, and many local facilities around the globe.

For a complete list, refer to the section “Global Learning Centers” on page 9.

Onsite Classes

If you prefer, we bring our classroom to you. This cost-effective means of training targets a large group of participants.

Custom Sessions

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Corresponding Online Learning

To complement our instructor-led classes, we also offer online learning. The subsections below provide brief overviews of each: Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) and Web-Based Training (WBT). For more detailed information on our VILT and WBT offerings, visit

palearningservices.schneider-electric.com and browse through our online catalog.

Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)

This classroom-style learning experience leverages conferencing technology to enable participants to attend from any location in the world, in their local time zone, without the need to travel.

Led by expert-level Instructors and with the use of the Process Automation Learning Cloud, participants complete lab practice from their very own desks.

We offer two types of Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) courses:

• In short-duration VILT, participants complete labs outside class, with the option to request support.

• In long-duration VILT, participants complete labs primarily in class, with the support an expert Instructor.

Web-Based Training (WBT)

This self-paced e-learning offers courses, from 1 to 10 hours in duration, that participants complete at their own pace from their own locations.

Conceptual knowledge is enhanced with demonstrations and try-it simulations that participants use to practice the application of acquired knowledge.

Technical references and job aids are embedded within each course.

Courses are modular. Managers and

participants can combine multiple courses to acquire in-depth knowledge about a specific product.

Training Growth Funds

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Global Learning Centers

Contact information for our global learning centers in each region appears below.

Asia Pacific

Australia / New Zealand: +61 3 9550 7386 China: +886 21 3718 0000, ext. 5748 India: +91 44 4224 0001 Indonesia: +62 21 1500 055 Korea: +82 2 2090 0944 Japan: +81 3 5931 7692 Singapore: +65 6 829 8815

Europe

Belgium and the Netherlands: +32 (0)3 205.14.63 France: +33 (0)1 34 43 25 04 Germany: +49 (0)2131 4062 319 Kazakhstan: +7 7122 32 96 80 Italy: +39 02 26297587 Russia: +7 495 663 7773 Slovak Republic: +421 2 32200 333 Spain: +34 914 90 33 00 United Kingdom: +44 (0) 208 980 7489

Middle East and Africa

Egypt: +20 2 2517 7056 Kuwait: * +965 2398 9421 Nigeria: +234 (0) 14483380 Oman: * +968 24173464 Qatar: * +974 4433 6249 Saudi Arabia: * +966 (0)13 807 6161 United Arab Emirates: * +971 (0)4 8074700

 Alternate mobile for countries above that include asterisks: +971 (0)56 226 8014

North America

Canada: +1 888 369 2676 Mexico: +52 (55) 5263 0100

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Schedules and Registration

For information about schedules and registration for learning centers in your local area: • Visit palearningservices.schneider-electric.com.

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Standard Foxboro DCS

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2001 Legacy I/A Configuration Essentials

This course allows you to work with the Foxboro™ system, build simple control loops, build displays, and understand general system diagnostic messages.

In this course, you identify major hardware and software components of the I/A Series™ system, V6 and V7. Using various configuration tools, you enable and view process alarm reporting.

Classroom instruction and practical lab exercises lay the groundwork for more advanced I/A Series courses. The course is ideal for personnel who configure and maintain an I/A Series system.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you can:

• Identify the basic hardware

components of a typical I/A Series system, their functions, and the interrelationships of system components.

• Construct and generate simple process control schemes using I/A Series Control Configurator.

• Test the operation of control loops using default displays.

• Using display software, construct process displays that interact with live process data.

• Make online modifications to real-time and historical trend displays.

• Interpret results and modify predefined alarm schemes.

• Assign control block alarm events to Annunciator Keyboard LEDs and displays, and assign programs to Annunciator Keyboard pushbuttons.

• Describe standard system diagnostic and support tools.

Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of personal computers

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2001v8 Foxboro Configuration Essentials

This course allows you to work with the Foxboro™ system, build simple control loops, build displays, and understand general system diagnostic messages.

In this course, you identify major hardware and software components of the Foxboro system, V8 and above. Using various configuration tools, you enable and view process alarm reporting.

Classroom instruction and practical lab exercises lay the groundwork for more advanced Foxboro courses. The course is ideal for personnel who configure and maintain a Foxboro system.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the basic hardware components of a Foxboro system, including the network, system functions, and the interrelationships of system components.

• Construct and generate simple process control schemes using Foxboro Control Configurator, ICC, or IACC tools.

• Test the operation of control loops using default process displays.

• Construct process displays that interact with live process data using FoxDraw™ software.

• Assign control block alarm events to Annunciator Keyboard LEDs and displays, and assign programs to Annunciator Keyboard pushbuttons.

• Describe standard system diagnostic and support tools.

Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of personal computers and plant processes

• Minimum of 6 months of experience using process control computers

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2003 Legacy I/A Series Tools for UNIX

This course optimizes the use of key I/A Series™ system tools and configurators. The course also helps protect plant intellectual assets and minimize the impact of unforeseen outages through proper archiving and restoration of I/A Series system databases.

In this course, you control access to key plant variables in graphical displays. You use powerful system utilities to access, change, and diagnose system and process variables. This course is ideal for Process Engineers who configure I/A Series systems to optimize and control the use and availability of system and process information.

Learning Objectives

• Configure the execution of Display Manager calls using various soft keys.

• Utilize display utilities and Display Manager variables to modify displays and limit access to graphics in FoxView™

software or Display Manager.

• Inhibit process alarms at the compound and block level on

command or through a process event.

• Configure multiple display managers using Alarm and Display Manager Configurator.

• Associate alarm managers with display managers and customize Alarm Manager configuration schemes.

• Describe Object Manager concepts.

• Access and manipulate the control database using Object Manager utilities.

• Leverage system tools and utilities to analyze and troubleshoot the I/A Series system.

Prerequisites

• 2001 Legacy I/A Configuration Essentials

• 2400 Legacy UNIX Software Technologies, UNIX Self-Study Workshop, or equivalent

UNIX experience

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2004 AIM*AT

This course introduces you to the programming steps for accessing and engineering the AIM*AT™ suite of software applications.

In this course, among other tasks, you practice configuring an AIM*AT server to retrieve data and report output into a Microsoft®_Excel®_{spreadsheet or web-based application.}

Through hands-on lab exercises, you acquire up-to-date information on creating, managing, and querying this database.

The course is ideal for plant personnel who retrieve data on process performance, plant performance, or plant operations.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the purpose and function of AIM*AT software applications.

• Operate the AIM*Historian application to monitor various process variables.

• Configure and utilize reduction groups.

• Perform AIM*Historian archiving operations.

• Access real-time and historical data in table format.

• Access real-time and historical data in trend format.

• Set up the AIM*ODBC driver and access data with the SQL Select statement.

• Access data using AIM*OPC and tools embedded in the AIM suite.

• Build and view HTML reports using AIM*Inform.

• Access and modify instances using AIM*Historian utilities.

• Configure an instance to include both events activated by user-defined conditions and MDE values.

• Configure and execute reports using the I/A Series™ Report package.

Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office®_tools

• 2001 Legacy I/A Configuration Essentials or 2001v8 Foxboro Configuration Essentials

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2007 System Administration for Foxboro Systems

This course familiarizes you with administration requirements, key system tools, and

configurators for Foxboro™ systems. Through instruction on the proper setup, backup, and restoration of stations, this course helps you install Control Core Services (CCS) software. The course also outlines basic steps for setting up the Foxboro network.

In this course, you perform installation of both new and updated configuration changes. You view and modify files that affect the operation of a Foxboro station. With the support of available documentation, you access, change, and diagnose system and process variables using system utilities.

Learning Objectives

• Complete prerequisites for the Foxboro station and network to install a system.

• Modify an existing system using System Definition software.

• Review files that are modified during a software Install.

• Review and edit files that change the startup of a Foxboro station.

• Modify access classes in FoxView™ software.

• Customize the alarm system using Alarm/Display Manager Configurator.

• Understand Microsoft™ and McAfee™ updates.

• Back up and restore a Foxboro station using Backup software.

Prerequisites

• 2001v8 Foxboro Configuration Essentials

• 5001 Control Software Configuration Essentials

• Plant Engineers

• Plant Technicians

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2009 Advanced Foxboro System Administration

This course introduces you to command-based tools in a Foxboro™ system.

In this course, you use Foxboro tools to view communication and connectivity between stations. You view Object Manager connections, IPC connections, and interactions between operator stations, CPs, and Historians. You also view CP usage and determine better

control sizing.

Course activities concentrate on scripting capabilities, including writing scripts in Mortis Korn Shell (MKS) on windows-based systems.

Learning Objectives

• Explain MKS commands, filters, and scripting.

• View and report Object Manager and IPC connections.

• View CP usage and files.

• Describe the usage of Compound Summary Access.

• Explain features available in Device Monitor.

• Use tools available in FoxDraw™ software.

• List and review AIM*API utilities.

Prerequisites

• 2007 System Administration for Foxboro Systems

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2015 Advanced FoxView Software

This course promotes effective HMI design using the advanced features in FoxView™ and FoxDraw™ applications. These features help you build and maintain graphical displays in a Foxboro™ system.

In this course, you use display configuration tools, substitutions, Display Manager

commands (dmcmd), and various utilities. You also use FoxView displays to interact with real-time data, historical field data, and process data.

The course is ideal for Process Control Engineers who build or maintain FoxDraw displays and maintain the Process Operator human interface environment.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the features of FoxView and FoxDraw applications.

• Verify control block interaction using FoxView and FoxSelect™ software to invoke block detail displays.

• Build and enhance a process display using FoxDraw software.

• Configure basic control dynamics in a process display using FoxDraw features and verify this functionality using FoxView features.

• Modify a process display to conform to Situational Awareness standards.

• Restrict display and configuration access using FoxView environment files, boot-up files, and scripts.

• Configure trends and plot process values.

• Understand the creation and use of generic displays and substitutions.

• Reduce the time to create displays using advanced FoxDraw features, such as custom symbols and aliases.

• Apply substitution, dmcmd, Alarm Manager commands, dedit functions, and advanced editing tools.

Prerequisites

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2101 Foxboro Continuous Control

This course helps you become familiar with procedures and processes for designing control databases using Foxboro™ system process control configurators.

In this course, you focus on parameters and algorithms required for continuous control applications, such as cascade, ratio, feedforward, and adaptive control loops. You execute complex real-time mathematical calculations at the loop-level and deploy fail-safe

strategies. Extensive lab sessions help you practice and test procedures.

The course is ideal for Process Control Engineers and Technicians who design, install, test, or maintain control schemes using Integrated Control Configurator (ICC) or I/A Series Configuration Component (IACC) on a Foxboro system.

Learning Objectives

• Construct and verify the operation of

cascade, feedforward, ratio, multiple output, and discrete control schemes using control block parameters.

• Create safe control loops for operational changes.

• Employ output tracking, alarm filtering, and loop initialization using control parameters.

• Configure fieldbus modules for required fail-safe operation and measurement resolution.

• Implement complex real-time calculations in control loops using advanced calculation blocks.

• Configure and test adaptive control schemes using PIDA, FBTUNE, and other control blocks.

• Understand the different types of control algorithms available in a Foxboro system.

Prerequisites

• 6211 Process Control Technology or equivalent knowledge

• Process Control Engineers

• Process Control Technicians

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2102 Foxboro Sequence Control and Ladder Logic

This course helps you become familiar with the procedures and processes for designing sequence and ladder logic programs using Foxboro™ system process control

configurators. These programs typically automate the startup or shutdown of a process and batch processes.

In this course, you build and test ladder logic control schemes and build sequential control schemes using High-Level Batch Language (HLBL). Extensive lab sessions enable you to practice and test procedures.

The course is ideal for Process Control Engineers and Technicians who design, install, test, or maintain control schemes using Integrated Control Configurator (ICC) or I/A Series Configuration Component (IACC) on the Foxboro system.

Learning Objectives

• Configure and test the ladder logic control strategy using the PLB block and other control blocks.

• Describe the functions and interactions of sequence control blocks.

• Operate, configure, and program the sequence blocks: Monitor, Timer, Independent, Dependent, and Exception.

• Use preprocessor commands with macros and Include files.

• Create sequence control programs using High Level Batch Language (HLBL).

• Program and test subroutines and standard block exception handlers.

• Program and test sequence control blocks using Sequence Function Chart (SFC) software.

Prerequisites

2101 Foxboro Continuous Control

• Process Control Technicians

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2103 Advanced Block Configuration Workshop

This workshop helps you become proficient in implementing plant control schemes using control continuous control blocks. You can apply the content of this course to any

Foxboro™ process automation system.

In this workshop, you become familiar with the usage of control blocks and their parameters in simple and complex applications. Specifically, you focus on the parameters and

algorithms required for continuous control applications, such as cascade, ratio, feedforward, ratio, and adaptive control loops. Extensive discussions cover best practices in creating and using control loops.

Learning Objectives

After completing this workshop, you can:

• Describe the dynamic elements in a control loop, characteristics of a real process, and the use of linear and nonlinear controllers.

• Explain the behavior of control loops,

including factors that determine how well you can control a specific variable and the use of linear and nonlinear controllers.

• Demonstrate proper configuration of:

 Key parameters of the input blocks AIN, CIN, and AINR, and the output blocks AOUT, OUTSEL, COUT, VLV, MOVLV, MTR, and GDEV

 Control block parameters to maintain a closed loop and a safe working environment

 Key blocks and block parameters for a loop with adaptive tuning capability.

Prerequisites

• Minimum of 1 year of experience using and configuring Foxboro control blocks

• 2101 Foxboro Continuous Control

• 2102 Foxboro Sequence Control and Ladder Logic

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2200 Legacy Equipment Maintenance

This course helps you become familiar with diagnostic and problem-solving procedures through lab exercises that use I/A Series™ system hardware and software, V6 and V7. In this course, you identify all essential hardware and software components of the I/A Series system and verify proper installation.

This course is ideal for Technicians who maintain I/A Series systems.

Learning Objectives

• List the basic hardware components, their functions, and relationships between modules and stations.

• Differentiate between the types and numbers of industrial power modules required to meet different power configurations.

• Follow documented

procedures to verify proper system installation.

• For a sample I/A Series system that includes fault-tolerant stations, identify each module and peripheral device, trace all bus and cable connections, and demonstrate proper removal and replacement procedures.

• Using FoxView™ software, demonstrate the methods of and purposes for accessing environments, displays, and I/A Series configurators.

• Operate system management displays to access status, configuration, and fault analysis information related to an I/A Series system network, individual modules, and peripheral devices.

• Resolve hardware problems using documentation and proper troubleshooting techniques.

Prerequisites

• Prior experience with digital process control equipment

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2200v8 Foxboro Equipment Maintenance

This course helps you become familiar with diagnostic and problem-solving procedures through lab exercises using Foxboro™ system hardware and software, V8 and higher. In this course, you identify essential hardware and software components of the Foxboro system and verify proper installation.

This course is ideal for Technicians who maintain Foxboro systems.

Learning Objectives

• List the basic hardware components, their functions, and relationships between modules and stations.

• Follow documented procedures to verify proper system installation.

• For a sample Foxboro system that includes fault-tolerant stations, identify each module and peripheral device, trace all bus and cable connections, and

demonstrate proper removal and replacement procedures.

• Demonstrate knowledge of the procedures required to replace a network switch.

• Using FoxView™ software, demonstrate the methods of and purposes for

accessing environments, displays, and configurators.

• Describe the distribution of power to fieldbus modules and control processors.

• Operate system management displays to access status, configuration, and fault analysis information related to a Foxboro network, individual modules, and peripheral devices.

• Operate system management displays to update the firmware of Foxboro stations and peripherals.

• Resolve hardware problems using documentation and proper troubleshooting techniques.

Prerequisites

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2210 Legacy Foxboro Software Maintenance

This course helps you protect plant intellectual assets and minimize the impact of

unforeseen outages through proper archiving and restoration of I/A Series™ system files and databases.

In this course, you follow procedures for testing and identifying I/O problems encountered during hardware and software installation, system modification, and ongoing maintenance, V6 and V7. Lab exercises reinforce using system diagnostic tools and procedures and identifying field problems in control loops.

The course is ideal for Technicians who are responsible for system backup and restore procedures and test communications between I/A Series equipment and I/O devices.

Learning Objectives

• Use basic operating system commands to support maintenance tasks.

• Perform system backup and restoration procedures on stations.

• Construct a continuous control loop to monitor and control a process.

• Incorporate alarming

parameters into a control loop.

• Monitor and control a process using graphical displays.

• Control and test discrete devices using a ladder logic application.

• Employ discrete control blocks to test devices.

Prerequisites

2200 Legacy Equipment Maintenance

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2210v8 Foxboro System and Software Maintenance

The course helps you protect plant intellectual assets and minimize the impact of

unforeseen outages through proper archiving and restoration of Foxboro™ system files and databases.

In this course, you follow procedures for testing and identifying I/O problems encountered during hardware and software installation, system modification, and ongoing maintenance, V8 and higher. Lab exercises reinforce using system diagnostic tools and procedures, and identifying field problems in control loops.

The course is ideal for Technicians who are responsible for system backup and restore procedures and test communications between Foxboro equipment and I/O devices.

Learning Objectives

• Use basic operating system

commands to support maintenance tasks.

• Perform system backup and

restoration procedures on stations.

• Construct a continuous control loop to monitor and control a process.

• Incorporate alarming parameters into a control loop.

• Monitor and control a process using default displays.

• Control and test discrete devices using a ladder logic application.

• Employ discrete control blocks to test devices.

Prerequisites

2200v8 Foxboro Equipment Maintenance

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2211 Foxboro Network Maintenance

This course provides an understanding of the tools and key concepts for configuring and supporting Foxboro™ Control Network.

The course covers network definitions and topologies and the use of Internet Protocol Suite (commonly known as TCP/IP). Additional topics include uses of virtual LANs, commonly known as a VLAN, and I/A Series™ COMEX (communication executive). The course introduces Switch Configuration Application Software (SCAS) for performing switch

diagnostics and repairs, and Extreme Networks®_{(formerly Enterasys}®_{) NetSight}®_Console

for verifying network health and network diagnostics.

This course is ideal for personnel responsible for control system administration and plant control networks.

Learning Objectives

• Describe networking fundamentals: TCP/IP protocol, IP addressing, masking, Ethernet, spanning tree protocol, rapid spanning tree

protocol, virtual LANs, LDP, SNMP, NTP, and firewalls.

• Explain network requirements, legacy I/A requirements, topology, network switches, and configuration.

• Identify tools and techniques for performing network diagnostics.

• Discuss best practices when installing, using, and maintaining the Foxboro™ network.

• Verify various switch configurations and validate switch settings using SCAS.

• Understand diagnostic tools available on the Foxboro system to troubleshoot problems with the network.

• Describe NetSight Console and its use with the Foxboro network.

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with I/A Series or Foxboro hardware and software

• 2001v8 Foxboro Configuration Essentials, 5001 Control Software Configuration

Essentials, or 5001FV Control Software Configuration Essentials with FoxView

• 2200v8 Foxboro Equipment Maintenance or 5200 Control Software Equipment

Maintenance

• Plant Engineers

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2220 Foxboro Field Device Integration with Modbus

This course helps you install and commission the communication between Modbus®

devices and the Foxboro™ system using Field Device System Integrator (FDSI) modules. The course covers proper cable installation and connection to enable Modbus devices to communicate with the system through FDSIs. The course includes troubleshooting and resolution of common problems that impede communication between Modbus devices and the system.

Learning Objectives

• Identify FDSI modules and create FDSI network topology.

• Connect FDSI, RS232, and RS485 serial cabling.

• Wire FDSI terminal assemblies.

• Set up Redundant Serial FDSIs and Ethernet FDSIs.

• Install FDSI hardware and make FDSI cable connections.

• Utilize third-party Modbus emulators.

• Monitor communications using Sniff cables and Tap devices.

• Follow steps in the integration process.

• Install FDSI drivers.

• Generate configuration files.

• Create and configure Equipment Control Blocks (ECBs) and Distributed Control Interface (DCI) Blocks.

• Detail the Modbus protocol.

• Use block detail displays and faceplates.

• Maintain FDSI using System Manager.

• Interpret LED indicators for each FDSI module.

• Employ FDSI diagnostics and recognize the loss of communication.

• Configure the system to communicate with third-party Modbus devices through FDSI.

Prerequisites

• At least 1 year of experience in project engineering or maintenance

• 2001v8 Foxboro Configuration Essentials, 5001 Control Software Configuration

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2221 Foxboro Field Device Integration with OPC

This course enables plant engineering personnel to apply Field Device System Integrator (FDSI) using the OPC client driver. Classroom instruction and practical lab exercises lay the groundwork for connecting to plant floor devices using an OPC server.

The course is ideal for Process Engineers responsible for the integration of a Foxboro system.

Learning Objectives

• Describe common hardware and software components of a Foxboro system.

• Describe current OPC standards.

• Install FDSI hardware with the OPC client driver and configure FBM 233 to communicate with an OPC

server.

• Configure FDSI with the OPC client driver using FBM 233, an XML file, and blocks to bring data into the Foxboro system.

• Troubleshoot FDSI with the OPC client driver using System Manager displays, device LEDs, and the FDSI diagnostic tool.

Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of using Ethernet networks

• General knowledge of the control database structure, such as letter bugs and ECBs

• Conceptual knowledge of client server applications

• Process Engineers

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2222 Foxboro Field Device Integration with DeviceNet

This course helps you install and commission communication between DeviceNet devices and the Foxboro™ system. Implementing DeviceNet™ on Foxboro systems is supported by Field Device Editor in Control Software.

In this course, you use the Field Device Editor graphical interface to connect to the device’s Electronic Data Sheet. Following extensive lab instructions, you configure FBM 229

Equipment Control Blocks (ECBs) and application blocks to read and write data to and from the devices. You operate RSNetWorx software by configuring the assembled DeviceNet network to access device data and status.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the integration of a

DeviceNet network with the Foxboro controller using FBM 229.

• Describe the physical layer and messaging constructs that FBM 229 uses, describe the I/O cycle and key parameters for configuring the device as the master/scanner, and outline how to connect process data to the Foxboro control system using DCI blocks.

• Set up the physical layer of the

DeviceNet application with a focus on installation of the Foxboro control system drop on the DeviceNet network, consisting of FBM 229 and DeviceNet Termination Assembly (TA).

• Perform step-by-step instructions for several key Foxboro Control Editor tasks in RSNetWorx.

• Perform system configuration of FBM 229 and DeviceNet slave devices using Foxboro Control Software.

• Configure DCI blocks to access process data from DeviceNet slave devices.

• Perform system maintenance of FBM 229 and connected slave devices, including FBM 229 LED indicators, equipment change actions, and status displays in System Manager and FoxView™ displays.

Prerequisites

5001 Control Software Configuration Essentials

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2300v8 Foxboro Process Operations

This course provides the background necessary to perform procedures normally encountered by a Process Operator in the control room. Through a series of simulated control schemes in this course, you identify the mechanics of operating the FoxView™ interface and interacting with typical process displays.

This course is ideal for personnel who are responsible for day-to-day operations in a plant.

Learning Objectives

• Use the devices provided by the operator’s station to access displays, overlays, and

environments, and to determine variables that are operator-changeable.

• Given a typical process situation, recognize the

occurrence of a process alarm, determine the cause, and provide the appropriate response.

• Operate the standard Foxboro™

faceplate displays and custom graphical displays.

• Observe variations in process conditions and review historical data using real-time trends.

• Demonstrate the method of access and the information presented in operational reports and in scheduled and on-demand custom process reports.

• In the event of a failure, acknowledge the system alarm and identify the failed component.

Prerequisites

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2400 Legacy UNIX Software Technologies

This course provides a fundamental understanding of the UNIX operating system.

The course is ideal for Foxboro™ System Administrators who are responsible for file and server maintenance or require a better understanding of the UNIX operating system.

Learning Objectives

• Access the UNIX operating system environment and execute simple commands.

• Navigate and manipulate the file system structure using UNIX commands.

• Execute commands using Bourne Shell features, including command I/O, metacharacters, variables, quotes, and process creation and control.

• Create and edit predefined text files using the vi text editor.

• Execute commands to transform or search for files, and to establish user-to-user communications.

• Perform basic UNIX system

administration duties, including maintaining file systems, scheduling command execution, and managing printer requests.

• Access files using DOS file utilities and commands.

• Create and execute Bourne Shell scripts that use UNIX commands, shell variables, conditionals, loops, I/O, and command-line arguments.

• Execute UNIX commands to format floppy diskettes, create file systems on diskettes, and archive and restore files.

Prerequisites

• Prior experience with digital process control equipment

• Prior experience in computer programming (helpful)

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2610 FoxCAE

This course helps reduce engineering for I/A Series™ control stations and I/A Series Historians using FoxCAE™ V5.0 software. This course helps you recognize the benefits of forward engineering, loop documentation, and back documentation. Forward engineering of instrument databases helps increase engineering productivity and eliminate configuration errors.

In this course, you implement control schemes offline and online in the I/A Series system. You also use powerful importing and propagation tools to populate field device databases. The course is ideal for Process Control Engineers who use FoxCAE software to configure, document, and secure I/A Series control databases.

Learning Objectives

• Access various FoxCAE components and describe their functions.

• Create a simple loop using the basic working area windows and graphical editor.

• Using FoxCAE functions, manage a project database, manipulate a tag list to import data, and set up various block propagations.

• Manipulate data-forms to map data for block propagation schemes, and create and modify block structure defaults.

• Create and modify typical loop structures for bulk generation of a control scheme.

• Manipulate a FoxCAE control database for downloading into a Control Processor (CP).

• Load an existing CP database into FoxCAE software and organize compounds and blocks into control loops for documentation and control database maintenance.

Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of personal computers in a Microsoft®_Windows®_environment

• 2001 Legacy I/A Configuration Essentials or 2001v8 Foxboro Configuration Essentials

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2612 I/A Configuration Component

This course establishes consistency of methods for I/A Series™ control stations, hardware, software, and displays using Intelligent Automation Configuration Component (IACC) software.

In this course, you create a control strategy using Control Strategy Diagrams (CSDs). You integrate control loops with FoxDraw™ displays. You also define system hardware and accompanying software parameters, and apply bulk generation and edits of control loops. This course is ideal for Process Control Engineers who use IACC to create, edit, document, and secure I/A Series control databases, displays, and the I/A Series platform.

Learning Objectives

• Build a simple loop using Control Strategy Diagram Editor, assign the loop to a compound, and download the compound to a control station.

• Create and edit FoxDraw displays within IACC.

• Given a tag list, build a CSD template and bulk-generate multiple compounds and CSDs from the tag list and CSD template.

• Apply ladder logic and sequential control using the IACC interface.

• Build a system configuration, define hardware naming and software parameters, validate the configuration, and create a Commit disk.

• Describe and use the various security, multiuser, and version control features of IACC.

• Use the Find in Database and Where Used search commands, and output results into a report.

• Back up, restore, and verify IACC databases.

Prerequisites

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2625 Foxboro Batch Software

This course establishes consistency of methods with batch processing using the Foxboro™ system and InBatch software.

In this course, you construct a batch model based on a plant physical model and functional design specification, then run and report on the created batch recipes. You optimize the performance of the batch control strategy using recipe phases.

This course is ideal for Process Control Engineers who coordinate, implement, or maintain Foxboro InBatch software.

Learning Objectives

• Define the units, connections, and phases required to implement the batch control strategy a process model.

• Declare a process block connection to the Batch system.

• Create simple macros and tie blocks to the Batch system.

• Define Flexible Batch and develop a working understanding of Flexible Batch characteristics.

• Define and build a process model with the following components: units, process classes, tag and formula parameters, and equipment status.

• Link a process model to a control strategy.

• Map the process states defined in a functional design specification into sequence block states.

• Program sequence blocks for effective use of the batch interface and easy maintenance of the control strategy.

• Create batch recipes, and modify and build transition logic.

• Schedule, run, and test recipes.

Prerequisites

• 2102 Foxboro Sequence Control and Ladder Logic

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2652 Foxboro FOUNDATION Fieldbus

This course helps you become familiar with the concepts, tools, and tasks required to engineer and integrate FOUNDATION Fieldbus devices with a Foxboro™ system and Intelligent Automation Control Component (IACC) software.

In this course, you identify segment design, import DD files, and install a DTM. You create new device type templates and set security privileges and default parameter values. You also create derived device type templates, create and configure device instances, associate device instances with FBMs or channels, and set FBM parameters.

This course is ideal for Engineers who design FOUNDATION Fieldbus segments, and configure and integrate FOUNDATION fieldbus devices with the Foxboro system.

Learning Objectives

• Describe publish-and-subscribe and client server communication methods.

• Explain FOUNDATION Fieldbus loading and sizing rules and best practices.

• Describe the function of and link master block schedules.

• Discuss macrocycle implementation.

• Describe LAS responsibilities.

• Use FOUNDATION Fieldbus device templates in IACC.

• Customize download/upload behavior,

Field Device Manager (FDM) tabs, and viewing screens in IACC.

• Link manuals and other documentation in IACC.

• Set up security by privileges and user roles in IACC.

• Use inheritance functions in IACC.

• Configure function blocks in IACC.

• Commission, replace, and troubleshoot devices using FDM.

Prerequisites

• 2612 I/A Configuration Component

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2700 Foxboro Management Overview

This course helps managers understand how to increase plant availability and utilization using a Foxboro™ system. This course profiles system capabilities and major components. Course topics include hardware, control strategies, and Foxboro software packages and features. This increased system comprehension enables better-informed, day-to-day plant decisions.

The course is ideal for Plant Supervisors, Managers, and Supply Chain Staff who responsibilities indirectly related to the Foxboro system control.

Learning Objectives

• List the major hardware

components of a Foxboro system, their functions, and the interrelationships.

• Understand the types of software that Schneider Electric offers as the enterprise control system. • Discuss the configurators, and describe the purpose of these configurators.

• Describe the types of predefined process control blocks.

• Recognize the requirement of a process alarm and devices designed to alert plant personnel.

• Identify tools in the system to recognize a failed component.

• Detail the information presented in standard and custom process reports.

• Understand the availability of tools to view real-time and historical data using trend displays and trending software packages.

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of computer systems and process control

• Managers

• Plant Supervisors

• Supply Chain Staff

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Foxboro DCS

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Foxboro DCS

5001 Control Software Configuration Essentials

This course allows you to work with the Foxboro™ system, build simple control loops and Control HMI displays, and understand general diagnostic messages. In this course, you identify the major hardware and software components of Foxboro DCS. Using various configuration tools, you enable and view process alarm reporting.

Course topics use all Control Software packages, Control Editor (Galaxy), Control HMI (InTouch™ software), and Control Historian (Wonderware™ Historian). Classroom

instruction and practical lab exercises in this course lay the groundwork for more advanced Foxboro DCS courses.

Learning Objectives

• Identify hardware

components of Foxboro Control Network, their functions, and the interrelationships between stations and modules.

• Construct simple process control

schemes using Control Editor.

• Test control loops using default Control HMI process displays.

• Construct process displays that interact with live process data.

• Assign control block alarm events to Annunciator Keyboard LEDs and displays, and programs to Annunciator Keyboard pushbuttons.

• Assign actions for Control HMI using the Framer tool.

• Describe standard diagnostic and support tools in System Manager.

Prerequisites

• System Engineers

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Foxboro DCS

5001FV Control Software Configuration Essentials with

FoxView

This course allows you to work with the Foxboro™ system, build simple control loops and FoxView™ displays, enable and disable alarm reporting, and respond to general diagnostic messages. In this course, you identify the major hardware and software components of Foxboro DCS. Using various configuration tools, you enable and view process alarm reporting.

Classroom instruction and practical lab exercises in this course lay the groundwork for more advanced Foxboro DCS courses.

Learning Objectives

• Identify hardware components of Foxboro Control Network, their functions, and the relationships between stations and modules.

• Construct simple process control schemes using Control Editor.

• Test control loops using default process displays.

• Construct process displays that interact with live process data, using FoxView displays.

• Assign control block alarm events to Annunciator Keyboard LEDs and displays, and programs to Annunciator Keyboard pushbuttons.

• Describe standard diagnostic and support tools in System Manager.

Prerequisites

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Foxboro DCS

5004 Control Software Historian

This course introduces tools for accessing and engineering Historian and stored data. In this course, you gain a fundamental understanding of the role of Historian as a plant-wide data provider. You also gain a fundamental understanding of how to use Historian Client to configure reports and report and analyze Historian data. Through hands-on practice, you modify, manage, and query this sophisticated database.

The course is ideal for Managers and Engineers who retrieve data on process or plant performance or on plant operations.

Learning Objectives

• Operate Historian to:

 Insert, update, retrieve, and display archived and live plant data.

 Import and store offline data (old data).

 Configure advanced event detectors and event actions.

 Perform archiving operations.

• Set up Historian and access data with the SQL query statement.

• Retrieve dates from Historian using Historian Client tools.

• Configure an instance to include both events activated by user-defined conditions and by data import values.

• Describe data storage planning.

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office® _tools

• Managers

• Engineers

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Foxboro DCS

5005 Control HMI

This course helps you effectively design and use Control Software development tools. Specifically, you use Control HMI (InTouch™ software) as the display application. In this course, you use built-in Control HMI functionality and create custom functionality for specific applications using Control HMI editing tools.

This course uses the Standalone application instead of the Managed application configured from the Galaxy.

This course is ideal for Process Control Engineers and Technicians who build or maintain the Control HMI application and/or application objects.

Learning Objectives

• Create and edit graphical objects in Control HMI.

• Reduce engineering efforts using templates for graphical objects.

• Use built-in scripts and script functions to reduce

development time on an application.

• Configure alarm displays, trend displays, and security for Control HMI.

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of

programming or scripting concepts

• Technicians

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Foxboro DCS

5006 Control HMI Managed ArchestrA Graphics

This course helps you apply advanced techniques when building graphical displays for Foxboro™ DCS using Control HMI with the Managed application. Foxboro Control HMI (V6.0 and later) facilitates the use of a Managed or Standalone Control HMI.

In this hands-on course, you use Control HMI (InTouch™ software) in a Managed application as the display application for Foxboro™ DCS. In addition to using built-in Control HMI functionality, you create custom functionality for a specific application. Using Control Editors in Managed Control HMI, you create, modify, and deploy graphical

windows.

This course is ideal for Process Control Engineers and Technicians who build and maintain Managed Control HMI and/or application objects.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the difference between Managed Control HMI and Standalone Control HMI.

• Describe the use of ArchestrA™ Graphics and Situational Awareness Libraries in Managed Control HMI.

• Create a Managed application and import graphics.

• Create and edit graphical objects in Control HMI.

• Identify detail display sets in Managed Control HMI.

• Use templates to accelerate the creation of display graphics.

• Deploy and manage applications through the ArchestrA IDE.

• Reduce development time on an application using built-in scripts and script functions.

• Configure alarm displays, trend displays, Framer settings, and security for Control HMI.

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of programming or scripting concepts

• Technicians

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Foxboro DCS

5010 System Auditor User Training

This course helps you use System Auditor to configure process control loops and displays and to set up Foxboro™ DCS. In this course, you identify hardware and software

components and control validations. Specifically, you access all user functions within System Auditor.

Learning Objectives

• Log in to System Auditor and navigate viewed areas.

• Use different methods for finding blocks and viewing associated features for controls, displays, alarms, references, mapping, and change-tracking.

• Determine general I/O hardware availability and

interpret drawings of control loops.

• Access system information using counters, stations, CP status, and Control Network monitoring.

• Manage Foxboro DCS using these key features: advanced queries, alarm management, change management, display management, Historian management, bulk configuration, Sequence of Events (SOE), Operator Action Journal (OAJ), and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) configuration.

• Understand each type of third-party system add-on.

• View and change System Auditor configuration settings and manage users.

Prerequisites

• Understanding of Foxboro control configuration and hardware configuration

• Understanding of content from 2001v8 Foxboro Configuration Essentials or 5001 Control Software Configuration Essentials

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Foxboro DCS

5012 Secured System Administration

This course helps you gain experience with Foxboro™ Secured Edition releases.

Specifically, you gain understanding of the secured setup for Foxboro DCS through new security management settings. Course topics address system definition, workstation hardening, all types of installation, modification of Microsoft®_{Active Directory}®_{, and}

troubleshooting and recovery techniques required for meeting cybersecurity standards. Course topics also address features added to the system from McAfee®_ePolicy

Orchestrator®_{(McAfee ePO™), setup, and navigation.}

Learning Objectives

• Describe key enhancements in Foxboro system software, Version 8.8 and greater.

• Review and use the Secured Editor System Definition package.

• Perform workstation hardening on both Microsoft®_Windows®_{7 and server class}

workstations.

• Review Active Directory enhancements, settings, and troubleshooting techniques.

• Save Active Directory settings from a Primary Domain Controller (PDC).

• Review procedures for Secured Edition installations of secured systems.

• Understand new software packages released with Secured Edition, the System Assessment tool, the Control Network configuration tool, and others.

• Work with functions and manipulate settings in the McAfee ePolicy console.

• Deploy McAfee Agent on client stations and review all software settings.

• Update a McAfee Virus Definition Update file using ePO.

Prerequisites

• 2001v8 Foxboro Configuration Essentials or 5001 Control Software Configuration

Essentials

• Minimum of 1 year of experience in process control system administration

• Application Engineers

• Control Engineers

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Foxboro DCS

5016 Foxboro DCS Security Administration Advanced

This course helps you advance your knowledge of control and management for client and server stations by Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in secured systems that are centrally managed. Proper use and understanding of GPOs helps enable proper functionality of client stations.

In this course, you learn about troubleshooting, software deployment, security, special GPO operations, and all GPO preferences.

Learning Objectives

• Describe basic concepts: functions, levels, and precedence.

• Create, remove, back up, and import GPOs.

• Link GPOs to multiple levels of Organizational Units (OUs) and create filters.

• Perform special processing using filters.

• Enable GPO security and

recover a damaged GPO from templates.

• Report and isolate GPO issues during troubleshooting using GPResult.exe.

• Troubleshoot Microsoft®_{Active Directory}®_{using enhanced logging options and tools.} • Implement GPOs during software installation, package upgrades, and MSI deployments

from a Primary Domain Controller (PDC).

Prerequisites

• 5012 Secured System Administration, or equivalent knowledge

• Minimum of 1 year of experience in process control administration

• Service Engineers

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Foxboro DCS

5090 Foxboro Virtualization Server

This course covers the use of the Microsoft®_Hyper-V®_{server and the administration of}

virtual images. In this course, you back up and restore virtual images to the server to understand the reliability and versatility of this platform.

This course is ideal for Engineers who support virtualization servers and operator workstations using thin clients.

Learning Objectives

• Describe requirements and advantages of a virtualization server.

• Describe procedures to maintain a virtualization server and virtual images for a Primary Domain Controller (PDC), the Galaxy repository, Display Server, and Historian Server.

• Describe network requirements and setup for connecting a

virtualization server to the Control Network and engineering

networks.

• Describe how to manage thin-client connections.

• Save and recover virtual stations using Microsoft Hyper-V tools.

• Consult all available documentation to use assigned configurators, tools, and utilities to analyze and troubleshoot the virtualization server.

• Understand endpoint protection and replication requirements using V91 and V90 documentation.

Prerequisites

• 5012 Secured System Administration or equivalent knowledge

• Minimum of 1 year of experience in process control administration

• Control Engineers