Purpose of Seminar:

The purpose of the course is to provide the student with advanced engineering, programming, design, selection, installation and troubleshooting skills for DDC Systems.

Although this course was originally designed as a 5-day “Hands-on” training course, the curriculum can be tailored to meet your specific needs whether you require five days of training or two, want the full-blown “Hands-on” experience, or just a basic lecture introduction. Just let us know. We’ll customize it specifically for you.

Who should take this course?

This is an advanced course designed for people who have already taken our introductory DDC course or who are already familiar with basic direct digital controls. Attendees come from a wide variety of industries, skill levels, company sizes, and job titles, so if you're not sure you'll fit in or will benefit from the class, don't worry - you will - as long as you want to add to your existing DDC knowledge! People who will benefit from attending this seminar include….

All maintenance personnel in:

• Manufacturing Plants
• Commercial Buildings
• Hospitals
• Schools
• Government Buildings
• Research Facilities
• Shopping Centers
• Apartment Buildings

Including:

• All Building Maintenance Personnel
• All Plant & Facility Maintenance Technicians
• Building Engineers
• Building Managers & Superintendents
• Apprentice and Experienced HVACR Technicians
• Energy Management Personnel
• Multi-craft & Cross Training Personnel
• Mechanical Engineers
• Any person needing to know about DDCs

Course Outline / Agenda

INTRODUCTION

REVIEW OF BASICS

NETWORK

• - Communication Setup
• - System Setup
• - Security Considerations
• - Programming Methods
  • - Block definition format
  • - Creating Blocks
  • - Editing Blocks
  • - Deleting Blocks
  • - Sharing Information
  • - Troubleshooting
• - Alarm Capabilities
  • - Local Alarming
  • - Remote or Dial out alarming
• - Reports
  • - Exception Logs
  • - Alarm Reports
  • - Trend Reports
  • - Node List Reporting

LOCAL AREA CONTROLLER (MIRCROZONE 2/PACKAGED EQUIPMENT MODULE)

• - System Setup
• - Communications
• - Security
• - Basic Programming Description
• - Program Execution
• - Inputs / Outputs
• - The Functions Menu
• - Troubleshooting

VARIABLE AIR VOLUME CONTROLLERS

• - System Setup
• - Communications
• - Programming
• - Inputs / Outputs Troubleshooting

SUMMARY

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

All students attending our seminars receive a personalized Certificate of Completion and .8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) per day of training. Over 40,000 employers and government agencies who have sent their employees to our classes accept American Trainco CEUs for continuing education requirements. Our administration and record keeping practices meet or exceed the standards of ACE (American Council on Education) and we are able to provide transcripts of all classes attended and tests taken by individual students. Please contact us if our CEUs are not yet accepted by your authority. We will initiate an application to get the approval process started.