Learn how to Automate with Controls

Understanding Building Automation Systems and control for beginners

What you'll learn
- help convert a process into automation
- understanding the physical world as inputs and outputs of a controller
- creating a flow process within the controller
- connect and program the controller to achieve the specified outcome
- enmphasis on the refrigeration and airconditioning industry

Requirements
- no experience necessary, start as a beginner, then intermediate then advanced

Description
BMS and DDC: A Beginner’s Guide to Building Automation Systems

Course Overview:

This course is designed for anyone curious about how building environments are controlled through automation. Whether you're an absolute beginner or a hands-on technician looking to deepen your understanding, this course provides a solid foundation in Building Management Systems (BMS) and Direct Digital Control (DDC).

What You’ll Learn:

We begin by exploring thefundamentals of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, and Mechanical Services—the backbone of most commercial building automation systems. This mechanical knowledge sets the stage for understanding how control systems manage real-world processes.

From there, you’ll be introduced to thebasics of automation programmingand how it can be used to manage and monitor building systems through agraphical user interface.

Who Is This Course For?

Complete beginnerswith no prior experience in HVAC or automation

Apprenticesandtechnicianslooking to strengthen their knowledge

Anyone interested in automation—whether for commercial applications orhome automation

The course is structured acrossthree levels:Beginner,Intermediate, andAdvancedWe start here with theBeginner course.

Beginner Course Topics:

Abasic understandingof air conditioning and refrigeration processes(No need to be a refrigeration mechanic—we focus on the principles needed to design logical, sequential control programs)

Why we useRefrigeration and Air Conditioningas a gateway to automation concepts(These principles are transferable to other automation systems like PLCs used in commercial and industrial electrical applications)

Application of knowledge inHome Automation

Understandingbasic electrical principles

Introduction toelectric and electronic controls

Exploringphysical control hardwareand how it connects to the digital world

Learning howsoftware interacts with hardwarethrough programming

Readingelectrical wiring diagramsand translating them into logical control sequences

Virtually building and testing circuitsto simulate real-world scenarios

Who this course is for:
- this course is for beginners and those interested in the fundermentals of refrigeration and airconditioning
- and would like to apply the basic fundermentals which will be taught to be applied using controls.
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