Measurement Technologies and Process Automation

A control system is only as good as what it is measuring, and cement measurement is difficult: hot, dusty, abrasive and corrosive. This week starts with the instruments, what each measures, how it fails and what maintenance it needs, then builds up through control loops and their tuning to the supervisory and expert control layers. Online analysis gets its own session because it changes how a plant is controlled when it works and misleads badly when it drifts.

It runs 5 times over the published calendar, in 3 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Select instruments suited to cement plant conditions.
• Recognise instrument failure and drift from the process data.
• Tune a control loop and know when tuning is not the problem.
• Evaluate supervisory and expert control systems.
• Use online analysis correctly, including its calibration burden.

Instrumentation and control engineers and technicians, process engineers working with control systems, automation project engineers, and production staff who rely on the readings.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• An instrumentation review for one section.
• A loop tuning exercise on a real loop.
• A control system improvement proposal.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.