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March

VILT PME Elective Series - Learn How to Setup and Automate Web Reports in PME 3/15/2021 9:00AM CT - 3/15/2021 2 hours Virtual Classroom

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. Reports displays pre-defined report templates that can be used to view and analysis historical data from the system. These capabilities as well the pertinent use cases of the Reports tool will not only be covered with presentation and discussion but also practiced; with a hands-on lab session for the attendees.

Who Should Attend:
Those that already have a version of EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert installed

Prerequisites:

Be familiar with the concepts of power monitoring
Be familiar with the concepts of energy management
Be familiar with Microsoft Windows
Be familiar with the Power Monitoring Expert web platform

Students Will Be Able To:

Generate and view a report.
Save a report for faster generation in the future.
Export a report to any supported format.
Share a saved report with other users (or groups) in the system.
Create a subscription to automatically generate and save a report.
Understand WHY Reports can be useful to an organization

Course Reference Code:
3000WEB2HR

Course Type:
Webinar

Location:
Virtual Classroom

Web Price:
$249.00
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VILT PME Elective Series - Backing up Your PME System and Disaster Recovery Planning 3/16/2021 9:00AM CT - 3/16/2021 1 Day Virtual Classroom

Overview:
This training curriculum focuses on teaching students to manage and maintain their Power Monitoring Expert (PME) systems to best meet their needs. The course will cover User Management, database management, available troubleshooting tools, system maintenance and backup, and best practices for disaster recovery.

Who Should Attend:
This Webinar 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
Have attended “PMU Administration Webinar – Devices” or have equivalent knowledge and experience.

Students Will Be Able To:

Explore new cyber security features for User Management
Understand database structure and modify or adjust default database maintenance tasks
Use available troubleshooting tools and resources
Develop and implement a Disaster Recovery plan for PME

Course Reference Code:
3000WEB4HR

Course Type:
Webinar

Location:
Virtual Classroom

Web Price:
$948.00
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VILT PME Elective Series - Learn How to Configure Alarming and Logging in PME 3/18/2021 9:00AM CT - 3/18/2021 1 Day Virtual Classroom

Overview:
This advanced programming course focuses on system and device level customization using the Designer interface in PME software. 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 logging, and alarming.

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:

Have attended the Intro to Designer course
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 Fundamentals or Overview course is recommended

Students Will Be Able To:

Build programs for logging and alarming
Learn best practices for programming in Designer

Course Reference Code:
3000WEB4HR

Course Type:
Webinar

Location:
Virtual Classroom

Web Price:
$948.00
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April

VILT PME Elective Series - Adding and Managing Devices in PME 4/6/2021 9:00AM CT - 4/6/2021 1 Day Virtual Classroom

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 build up their systems by adding meters, modifying device and site names, communication parameters, and proper procedure for removing sites, devices, and associated historical data. The course will also cover integrating PME with 3rd party hardware.

Who Should Attend:
This Webinar 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, including 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
Design and build custom graphics screens
Incorporate 3rd party devices into the PME software

Course Reference Code:
3000WEB1DAY

Course Type:
Webinar

Location:
Virtual Classroom

Web Price:
$948.00
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VILT Power Monitoring Expert (PME) Administration and Maintenance 4/12/2021 9:00AM CT - 4/15/2021 4 Days Virtual Classroom

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 (recommend taking PME Operations class first)
A reasonable understanding of Microsoft Windows operating systems
A basic working knowledge of power and energy (watch Karl's Corner videos)

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 graphics screens
Incorporate 3rd party devices into the PME software
Understand database structures and modify or adjust default database maintenance tasks

Course Reference Code:
3000PMEADMIN200

Course Type:
Factory

Location:
Virtual Classroom

Web Price:
$3,006.14
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VILT PME Elective Series - Configuring Meters and Communication Troubleshooting 4/22/2021 9:00AM CT - 4/22/2021 1 Day Virtual Classroom

Overview:
This Webinar 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. 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. This course introduces 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 power meters.

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:

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
Troubleshoot meter wiring and communication issues a

Course Reference Code:
3000WEB1DAY

Course Type:
Webinar

Location:
Virtual Classroom

Web Price:
$948.00
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May

VILT Power Monitoring Expert (PME) Operation 5/10/2021 9:00 AM CDT - 5/13/2021 4 Days Virtual Classroom

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 as they are featured in this class as the extraction and analysis of data is paramount. Students will learn how to quickly extract and analyze data from their system using tools like the new Incident Alarm Viewer, Trends, Dashboards, Diagrams and Reporter. Utilize the web User Manager tool to add local users to PME. The course then moves on with an overview of one of the engineering clients, Management Console, to ensure the attendees understand how to add as well as remove devices from 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
Setup local users with the User Manager 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

Course Reference Code:
3000PMEOPS100

Course Type:
Factory

Location:
Virtual Classroom

Web Price:
$3,006.14
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VILT Power Monitoring Expert (PME) Advanced Programming 5/17/2021 9:00 AM CT - 5/20/2021 4 Days Virtual Classroom

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 Fundamentals, 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 to monitor processes and control functions
Understand the ION Reference document and how to use it
Learn best practices for programming in Designer

Course Reference Code:
3000PMEPROG300

Course Type:
Factory

Location:
Virtual Classroom

Web Price:
$3,006.14
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VILT ION Utility Meter Programmer (2 Day) 5/25/2021 - 5/26/2021 2 Days Virtual Classroom

Overview:

This 2 day course focuses on how to setup and program ION revenue meters using the front panel and ION Setup software. After reviewing the displays and setup menus available via the meter front panel, students will configure ION meters for revenue metering, advanced security, communications, energy pulsing, logging and power quality monitoring. All of the key features of ION Setup software will be emphasized, including the Setup Assistant, Offline meter programming, Network Mode, Advanced Module View and Data Viewing Mode. Topics such as meter template and firmware management, time synchronization and meter configuration reports will be covered. Students will also explore the advanced features of ION Setup to add and change ION modules for customized functions. The last part of the course concentrates on using ION Setup software as a meter troubleshooting tool.

Who Should Attend:
Anyone who will be configuring, customizing and troubleshooting ION meters extensively using ION Setup software.

Prerequisites:

Basic computer skills and experience with Microsoft Windows
Basic metering terminology

Students Will Be Able To:

Use the front panel of an ION meter
Use ION Setup software to configure ION meters
Use ION Setup software to assess meter wiring
Use ION Setup software to manage ION meter programs
Use ION Setup in Network Mode to connect to multiple meters
Use ION Setup in Data Viewing Mode to view meter values remotely
Describe ION architecture and ION module properties
Use ION Setup in Advanced Module View to create additional functionality

Course Reference Code:
3000PMUMTRPRG

Course Type:
Factory

Location:
Virtual Classroom

Web Price:
$1,508.00
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March

VILT PME Elective Series - Learn How to Setup and Automate Web Reports in PME 3/15/2021 9:00AM CT - 3/15/2021 2 hours Virtual Classroom

VILT PME Elective Series - Backing up Your PME System and Disaster Recovery Planning 3/16/2021 9:00AM CT - 3/16/2021 1 Day Virtual Classroom

VILT PME Elective Series - Learn How to Configure Alarming and Logging in PME 3/18/2021 9:00AM CT - 3/18/2021 1 Day Virtual Classroom

April

VILT PME Elective Series - Adding and Managing Devices in PME 4/6/2021 9:00AM CT - 4/6/2021 1 Day Virtual Classroom

VILT Power Monitoring Expert (PME) Administration and Maintenance 4/12/2021 9:00AM CT - 4/15/2021 4 Days Virtual Classroom

VILT PME Elective Series - Configuring Meters and Communication Troubleshooting 4/22/2021 9:00AM CT - 4/22/2021 1 Day Virtual Classroom

May

VILT Power Monitoring Expert (PME) Operation 5/10/2021 9:00 AM CDT - 5/13/2021 4 Days Virtual Classroom

VILT Power Monitoring Expert (PME) Advanced Programming 5/17/2021 9:00 AM CT - 5/20/2021 4 Days Virtual Classroom

VILT ION Utility Meter Programmer (2 Day) 5/25/2021 - 5/26/2021 2 Days Virtual Classroom