Star Controls is a global professional education and integration company in the SCADA and Telecommunications fields. We believe in transferring our knowledge in the field so that you can be more self-reliant, and make the best decisions in regards to adapting, changing, or adding new technologies to your system. Our dedicated team of professionals has been implementing and supporting customers with RTUs, such as Motorola Moscad & ACE3600, PLCs, such as Siemens, and Rockwell, and SCADA software systems for many years. Our team includes engineers and trainers with unparalleled knowledge and expertise.
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We believe that staff training and education are paramount for any responsible and progressive customer. We are now offering a line of standard training courses as well as custom-tailored ones, in which we transfer core knowledge to you and your staff so you can:
- Know more about your SCADA/Telemetry system: How it works and how to take more control over it (better operation and maintenance), better-informed users have more control over their system.
- Become more self-reliant and better able to troubleshoot and maintain the system: Make simple changes without calling your integrator, analyze, troubleshoot, and improve system reliability yourself.
- Discover what new technologies can be adapted to your system.
- Integrate new services (security, planning, water flow, etc.) to your SCADA system.
- Courses are delivered by one of the premier Motorola telemetry specialists worldwide, with many years of field experience. All courses include relevant hands-on workshops that students will be able to utilize immediately on the field. Some courses are actually delivered on customer’s own system.
Course Offering
Star Controls offers a variety of training courses, and most of these courses have been tailored to the entity’s needs, individuals’ skill level, and technology utilized. The following listings are typical courses to start as a baseline.
- 2-5 Day On-site Course (this will be a link with a pop down on full day-to-day description of training) – instructor and students will work on demo or system in production. This course is considered by our customers as the most productive and cost-effective course: Day-to-day description
- 1-2 Day On-site Operators Course (this will be a link with a pop down on full day-to-day description of training): Day-to-day description
- MOSCAD/MOSCAD-L/ACE3600/MC-Edge Training – General and for Programmer. We’ll provide you with knowledge that far exceeds any other available education resource in the market as our team includes members who hold: Day-to-day description
- Star Controls Products – On-site or Remote hands-on training on our products, such as StaRTU
Additional educational and knowledge transfer courses are available, or can be developed to address specific needs. Please contact us with any training requests at sales@star-controls.com.
Example 1: Two (2) Days Motorola RTUs and SCADA Software
Objective: Teach invaluable information about key system issues and management techniques for SCADA and Maintenance crew.
Audience: SCADA staff, IT staff, Field Maintenance staff
Course Topics:
- Course information will be based on the existing system, including the G-RTU, G-FIU, AU-RTU, Motorola MOSCAD, ACE3600 and MC-Edge Programming concept.
- The course will use a demo MOSCAD/ACE3600/SCADA system to simulate the system and technical demonstrations to the audience.
Course High Lights: Day 1
- Telemetry System Overview – “How everything works together”: The Field RTUs, the Radio communications, and the SCADA software
- Motorola RTUs Detail – “Everything you need to know about MOSCAD, ACE3600 and MC-Edge RTUs”: Configuration, Wiring, Operation, Communications, Connectivity to other devices
- Radio Communications – “All about communications” : Radio Types Configuration and Operation, Communication methods
- Radio Types Configuration and Operation, Communication methods
- Radio Communications – “All about communications”
Course Highlights: Day 2
- RTU Maintenance and troubleshooting : Common instrumentation issues and fixes
- Communication troubleshooting : Common issues and fixes
- SCADA software and FIU maintenance and troubleshooting : Common issues and fixes
Example 2: Five (5) Days General Motorola SCADA Course
Objective: Comprehensive knowledge transfer on Motorola RTUs based systems.
Audience: SCADA staff, IT staff, Field Maintenance staff Course High Lights:
- Telemetry System Overview – “How everything works together”: The Field RTUs, the Radio communications, and the SCADA software
- Motorola RTUs Detail – “Everything you need to know about MOSCAD and ACE3600 RTUs” : Configuration, Wiring, Operation, Communications, Connectivity to other devices, Troubleshooting and Diagnostics, Optimization
- Radio Communications – “All about communications” : Radio Types Configuration and Operation, Communication methods, Troubleshooting, and Diagnostics, Optimization
- RTU Connectivity to other devices – Example: MultiSmart pump controller integration with ACE 3600
- SCADA interacting – How to connect and display RTU data on a SCADA system (VTScada will be used as an example).
- Local Displays – How to connect a LOCAL display to Motorola RTUs and use it to get readings, alarms, and perform controls
- LIVE and hands-on – Class will be using live equipment for all demonstrations
Example 3: Five (5) Day Motorola RTU Programming Course
Objective: Comprehensive knowledge transfer on Motorola RTUs based systems.
Audience: SCADA Programmers
Course High Lights:
- STS System configurations : Covering all types of component configurations in great detail
- Communication and network configuration and management : Covering simple and complex networks
- Integration with Legacy RTUs : Using STS with MOSCAD, IPGW, MCP-M, MOSCAD-L and ACE3600
- Simple Programming : Using STS to program simple I/O and communication routines
- Hands On! Class will be tailored to fit specific needs, allowing practice with the specific RTU and application.
Example 4: StaRTU Training Class
Daily Agenda
Day 1
Morning Session – Motorola RTU Technical Overview and Basic Setup / Configuration
Discussion and demonstration of hardware components, communications elements, a brief introduction to the System Design software tool, STS (latest released version) software. This is a high-level overview of SCADA infrastructure and initial setup of a Process Area Network. Much of the morning session will be conceptual and presentation-oriented.
Afternoon Session – StaRTU Configuration
Students will learn how to quickly apply pre-packaged logic to a number of sites. Application examples range from a typical wastewater pumping station, water booster station, and many other industry applications. A networked lab of RTUs and FIUs will be provided for individual configuration.
Day 2
Morning Session – More StaRTU Applications, and Examples of SCADA and Local HMI
Discussion and demonstration of system and StaRTU optimization (customer’s specific applications may be used as examples). Discussion, usage, and demonstration of HMI interface via Modbus protocol.
Afternoon Session – Testing and Troubleshooting
Demonstration and usage of StaRTU troubleshooting. There are many different useful, sophisticated techniques that are built-in to troubleshoot a StaRTU. Customer’s specific issues may be used as examples.
Day 3
Morning Session – System Optimization
Advanced use of StaRTU, ladder logic, advanced Modbus commands
Afternoon Session – Review and Open Session
Discussion of system communications and troubleshooting techniques. This session will be custom tailored to students’ requests and needs.