The
course has been designed
to familiarise Maintenance
Engineers with the many
different aspects associated
with the operation, maintenance
and fault finding of the
Interbus field bus system.
The interface can be to
either of the following
PLC manufacturers Allen
Bradley PLC-5 or Siemens,
others by special request.
Where
possible, application
specific exercises,
actual drawings and
programs listings are
used to allow the students
to gain the greatest
possible benefit from
the course.
Objectives
To
introduce students to
the concepts and operation
of Interbus I/O systems,
including the following
areas:
•
Locate faulty modules.
•
Reload configuration
into the control board.
•
I/O Fault finding.
•
Using the CMD software
to configure and fault
find.
•
Understanding the
Interbus modules RT
and
ST.
•
Control board indicators
and their meanings.
•
The
hardware architecture of
an Interbus system.
•
I/O
wiring of RT and ST modules.
•
Loop
wiring.
•
Addressing.
•
The
CMD software package.
•
The
PLC or PC interface control
module and indication.
•
Configuration
of the network with the
CMD package.
•
Analogue
modules.
•
Monitoring
the network with the CMD
software.
•
Pre-processing
of signals.
•
Troubling
shooting the Interbus control
board, and network.
•
The
Interbus configuration and
the control board.
•
Transfer
functions that are used
in the PLC to transfer data
to and from the INTERBUS
controller
board.
