Phase 34: DCS
This phase contains 5 sections and 33 checklist topics. Use the interactive phase page to track your own learning progress.
General topics
- What is DCS?
- Why DCS?
- PLC vs DCS
- SCADA vs DCS
- Process automation
- Continuous process industries
Architecture
- Controller
- I/O
- Engineering station
- Operator station
- Historian
- Industrial network
- Redundancy
- Remote I/O
- And 2 more checklist topics
Platforms awareness
- Siemens PCS 7
- Emerson
- Honeywell
- Yokogawa
- ABB
Learn
- CPU sizing
- I/O mapping
- Control philosophy
- Redundant bus
- DCS programming
- SCADA communication
- Troubleshooting
Practical Field Additions
- RTU, PLC and DCS roles at remote industrial sites
- ICS supervisory architecture and electrical-control interface
- Communication between protection IED, PMS, PLC and SCADA
- Redundant server, controller and network concepts
- Alarm, event and timestamp consistency across integrated systems