The sensing, measurement, and final control elements necessary for automation.
Critical Work Functions
- 5.2.1 Select, specify, and design the installation of devices to measure and analyze physical and chemical properties
- 5.2.2 Select, specify, and design the installation of devices to manipulate flows, energy, positions, speeds, and other variables
- 5.2.3 Design and install wired and/or wireless systems that reliably communicate information from these devices to and from control equipment
- 5.2.4 Calibrate, troubleshoot, test, repair, and improve sensing, measurement, and final control elements
- 5.2.5 Document measurement, final control elements, and communications from these devices
Technical Content Areas(Including but not limited to):
- 5.2.6 General
- Device sizing and selection
- Installation point selection
- Signal conditioning
- Maintenance
- Performance (e.g., drift, linearity, offset, reliability, precision, repeatability, rangeability, dead time, and lag time)
- 5.2.7 Basic process instrumentation
- Flow
- Level
- Pressure
- Temperature
- pH
- Conductivity
- 5.2.8 Specialized process instrumentation
- Color
- Ion
- Moisture
- Dissolved oxygen
- 5.2.9 Analytical instrumentation
- Sample conditioning systems
- 5.2.10 High performance sensors
- High accuracy
- High speed
- Specialized technologies (e.g., focused beam reflectance and laser based)
- 5.2.11 Other measurements/sensors
- Auto identification (e.g., RFID, bar codes, biometrics)
- Position, speed, count
- Vibration
- Vision systems
- Encoders
- 5.2.12 Actuation
- Electric actuation
- Hydraulic actuation
- Pneumatic actuation
- Valve types (On/Off, throttling)
- Valve 86% response time, resolution and flow characteristic
- 5.2.13 Motor and drive control
- AC/DC Motors
- Power transmission (e.g., gear boxes)
- Smart motors
- Generators
- Speed and torque control
- Servos and steppers
- 5.2.14 Documentation
- Installation details
- Instrument lists
- Location plans (instrument location drawings)
- Piping and Instrument Diagrams (P&ID)
- Specification forms
- 5.2.15 Installations
- Electrical installation details
- Physical installation reliability and maintainability
- 5.2.16 Standards
- ISA-RP105.00.01-2017 - Management of Calibration Program of an Industrial and Automation Control System
- ISA-TR108.1-2015 Intelligent Device Management Part 1 Concepts and Terminology
- IEC 60654 - Industrial-Process Measurement and Control Equipment
- IEC 60770 - Transmitters for Use in Industrial-Process Control System
- IEC 61069 - Industrial-Process Measurement, Control and Automation - Evaluation of System Properties for the Purpose of System Assessment
- IEC 61298 - Process Measurement and Control Devices