Power Management University

Overview:
This training curriculum focuses on teaching students to manage and maintain their Power Monitoring Expert (PME) systems to best meet their needs. Students will learn how to design PME systems and plan system deployments. The students will proceed to build up their systems by adding meters, adding user accounts, configuring meter hierarchies, and building custom graphics screens. The course will also cover integrating PME with 3rd party hardware, as well as database management, system maintenance and backup, and disaster recovery.

Who Should Attend:
This course is designed for anyone who is responsible for administering, maintaining, and/or supporting a PME system, such as system administrators (and possibly IT Admins), as well as advanced PME users.

Prerequisites:

• A basic familiarity with using PME
• A reasonable understanding of Microsoft Windows operating systems
• A basic working knowledge of power and energy will be helpful

Students Will Be Able To:

• Understand and utilize system specifications to design a PME system
• Explore new cyber security features for user management
• Add meters and other hardware devices to the PME system
• Configure Logical Devices and Hierarchies to simplify data aggregation and extraction
• Design and build custom graphics screens
• Incorporate 3rd party hardware into the PME software
• Understand database structures and modify or adjust default database maintenance tasks

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Overview:
As with all our elective series classes, this remote session will cover a specific task, tool or use case as it pertains to the PME platform. Topics will not only be covered with presentation and dicussion, but also with practice through a hands-on labe session for the attendees.

This course introduces the configuration of the PME add‐on Energy Billing Module. This module is used to develop an accurate, complex energy bill based on data in PME’s database. This can be used for utility bill verification, load cost analysis, or tenant billing. Students will develop advanced rate schedules in the form of XML files, then run the various billing reports based on these rates.

Who Should Attend:
This course is designed for anyone who has a need to deploy and configure the Energy Billing Module. While the focus is on system integrators, this may also include experienced engineers who need to configure or modify the usage of this module. 

Prerequisites:

• Working knowledge of PME software
• Experience configuring PME hierarchies
• Working knowledge of utility billing rate contents
• General computer skills and basic working experience with Microsoft Windows
• Completion of a PME Fundamentals, Operation, or Overview course is recommended

Students Will Be Able To:

• Run a report from the Energy Billing Module
• Add additional line items to an energy bill
• Develop a tiered time‐of‐use rate structure
• Generate a bill based on metered circuits in a data center

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Overview:
This 4-day course focuses on installation and setup of PowerLogic and ION metering. Participants will identify and resolve meter setup issues, CT and PT wiring issues, and meter communication network issues. Participants will examine the capabilities of specific PowerLogic and ION meters and learn how to select the correct meter for different metering points in a facility. Participants will explore the features of PowerLogic communication gateways and practice setup and configuration. The ION Setup Utility will be used to display real-time data tables for the purpose of verifying that meter CTs and PTs are correctly wired to the meters. The ION Setup Utility will also be used to setup logging and event detection for each meter in the system. Participants will also create and manage a basic system in EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert. This course provides an introduction to installing and setting up a metering system utilizing PowerLogic and ION hardware.

Who Should Attend:
Anyone who will be designing, installing, configuring, troubleshooting, or maintaining PowerLogic and ION metering and communication devices.

Prerequisites:

• Basic computer skills and experience with Microsoft Windows
• Working knowledge and understanding of electrical terminology, concepts, and calculations, including an understanding of the relationships among current, voltage, power and power factor in three-phase circuits.

Students Will Be Able To:

• Understand basic power fundamentals and terminology
• Determine the capabilities of specific PowerLogic and ION metering devices
• Use the PowerLogic and ION meter front panels
• Use the ION Setup Utility to troubleshoot CT and PT wiring issues
• Use the ION Setup Utility to modify and save meter configurations
• Explain how to correctly mount and wire PowerLogic and ION meters
• Upgrade the firmware of PowerLogic meters and ION meters
• Troubleshoot meter wiring and communication issues
• Configure PowerLogic gateways for device communications
• Add PowerLogic and ION meters into a EcoStruxure system
• Create a simple power monitoring system in EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert
• Generate a Vista diagram and create basic Vista objects

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Overview:
As with all our elective series classes, this remote session will cover a specific task, tool or use case as it pertains to the PME platform. Topics will not only be covered with presentation and discussion, but also with practice through a hands-on labe session for the attendees.

This training curriculum focuses on teaching students to manage and maintain their Power Monitoring Expert (PME) systems to best meet their needs. Students will learn how to build up their systems by adding meters and gateways. They’ll also learn how to integrate a variety of other types of devices, such as mechanical WAGES meters (Water, Air, Gas Electricity, Steam) and 3rd party Modbus hardware.

Who Should Attend:
This course is designed for anyone who is responsible for administering, maintaining, and/or supporting a PME system, such as application engineers, system administrators (and possibly IT Admins), as well as advanced PME users.

Prerequisites:

• A basic familiarity with using PME
• A reasonable understanding of Microsoft Windows operating systems
• Working knowledge and understanding of electrical terminology, concepts, and calculations. These should include an understanding of the relationships among current, voltage, power, and power factor in three‐phase circuits

Students Will Be Able To:

• Add meters and other hardware devices to the PME system
• Configure Logical Devices to simplify data aggregation and extraction
• Incorporate 3rd party devices into the PME software

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Overview:
This 4-day overview course focuses on the what, how and why to use an EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert system. Students will be exposed to power monitoring fundamentals in order to set a baseline for class. Students will practice using PowerLogic and ION meter front panels to verify the configuration of devices that already exist in the system. In a hands-on lab environment, students will use the web applications offered in PME to extract and analyze the data coming from connected devices. Students will learn how to quickly examine data from their system using tools like Dashboards, Reports, Trends, Alarms, and Diagrams. The course then moves on with an overview of one of the engineering client tools, Management Console, to ensure the attendees understand how to add new devices to the PME system. The course concludes with a round-robin session to ensure that students "take away" one tangible item they will do when they get back to their location and their PME system.

Who Should Attend:
Anyone who will be/is using PME, or migrating from our SMS or ION platforms.

Prerequisites:

• Basic computer skills and experience with Microsoft Windows®
• Basic metering terminology

Students Will Be Able To:

• Understand basic power fundamentals and terminology
• Verify the configuration of meters in a PME system
• Analyze historical loads and consumption using Diagrams
• Manage events and alarms in new Incident Alarm Viewer web tool
• Analyze power quality and waveform data in the new Waveform viewer
• Create, manage, and automate reports with Web Reporter
• Create and manage Trends in Trends web tool
• Create and manage Dashboard web tool

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Overview:
This advanced programming course focuses on system and device level customization using the Designer interface in PME software. Students will learn the architecture of the ION meter along with using the Designer interface to examine the default frameworks. Students will be guided through a series of lab activities to creating custom applications for equipment monitoring, alarming, and logging. Students will learn to program the Virtual ION Processor (VIP) for special applications such as data aggregation, logging, and alarming. Students will then have the opportunity to create a custom virtual meter framework by aggregating multiple meters in the VIP and displaying the real-time and historical information from that newly created meter in the Vista application. Students will learn the differences between the default meter templates and firmware versions that can be uploaded to devices and be able to describe each. At the end of the course, students will have created frameworks for integrating the several types of WAGES devices available and programmed frameworks that will perform process and control applications.

Who Should Attend:
This course is designed for anyone who works with a PME system and has reasonable knowledge of the default functions of ION meters and PME software. This course may be appropriate for meter/instrumentation technicians, system engineers and system integrators who need to learn how to get the most out of their PME software and associated meters.

Prerequisites:

• Working knowledge of PME software, especially experience using Vista
• Working knowledge of the default capabilities of ION meters
• General computer skills and basic working experience with Microsoft Windows
• Completion of a PME Operation or Overview course is recommended

Students Will Be Able To:

• Describe ION architecture and ION module properties
• Examine configuration of meters installed in a PME system
• Understand the procedure to backup and restore a meter template
• Construct programs to perform custom calculations
• Describe how Designer and Vista work together
• Build programs for logging and alarming
• Construct programs for Advanced WAGES metering
• Build programs to read Modbus registers from one device to an ION meter
• Program applications inside of ION meters to monitor processes and control functions
• Understand the ION Reference document and how to use it
• Learn best practices for programming in Designer

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