Navigating the CADSIM Plus user interface and understanding its main features.

Understanding dynamic simulation vs. steady-state modelling; basic mass and energy balance concepts.

Setting up simple process models: drawing flow diagrams, defining streams and equipment, building a basic unit or circuit (e.g. a tank, sump, cyclone or simple flow path).

Running simulations: switching from drawing mode to simulation mode;

monitoring process variables;

understanding stream and equipment data.

Introduction to control elements: configuring simple controllers (e.g. PID-level controller), manipulating setpoints, and observing dynamic response.

Basic charting and data visualization (e.g. strip-charts) to monitor simulation outputs over time.

Process logic

Target Audience:

People new to process simulation — junior engineers, recent graduates, or professionals transitioning into mineral-processing modelling.

Outcome:

After Level 1, participants will be able to build and run simple dynamic process models, understand key simulation concepts, and perform basic process control and data visualization in CADSIM Plus.

Building full mineral-processing circuits: comminution, beneficiation, handling of multiple unit operations and streams. (Reflects your comminution example module.)

Parts creation, editing part types, adding unit operations, streams, smart connections and comprehensive flowsheet setup.

Use of animations and visual tools for better representation and diagnostics of process flows.

Advanced control logic: tuning PID controllers, designing control loops (level, flow, pressure, etc.), specifying process control via P&IDs, developing dynamic control strategies.

Process control and instrumentation simulation: dynamic response to transients, control interlocks, start-up / shut-down scenarios.

Data handling and integration: charting, monitoring variables over time, data extraction, and use of simulation data for analysis.

Component & chemical-reaction modelling, where applicable — enabling simulation of processes involving chemical transformations, multiple phases, and complex mass/energy balances (as permitted by CADSIM Plus modules).

Model validation and P&ID-to-simulation conversion: taking existing process & instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) and turning them into live, working simulations with control logic.

Dynamic simulation of time-varying processes, equipment sizing, and engineering calculations (e.g. pump sizing) integrated into the simulation context.

Target Audience:

People new to process simulation — Engineers, process designers, metallurgists, and control specialists who already have basic simulation exposure and want to model full mineral-processing plants or circuits.

Outcome:

On completion of Level 2, participants will be capable of building detailed, realistic mineral-processing plant simulations, integrating process control logic, analysing dynamic behaviour, and validating simulation models from P&IDs or engineering design documents. They will also be ready to tackle complex scenarios — e.g., transient events, equipment sizing calculations, and dynamic mass/energy balances with chemical or multiphase processes.

Constructing full-scale plant simulations (digital twin) that mirror real-world mineral-processing plants: combining flowsheet modelling, chemical reaction modules (if needed), dynamic control logic, interlocks, start-up/shutdown sequences, transients, etc.

• Designing, verifying, and optimizing detailed control logic — as used in real DCS (Distributed Control System) environments: building logic for process control, interlocks, safety, operator interactions, fail-safe behavior, and realistic operator-training scenarios.

• Virtual commissioning: simulating plant commissioning, start-up, shut-down, upset/recovery scenarios — enabling testing of control logic, operator procedures, and process behavior in a risk-free environment.

• Building interactive digital documentation/manuals: Computer-Based Manuals (CBMs), HTML-based documentation, interactive process manuals linked to the simulation — supporting standard operating procedures (SOPs), training manuals, and operator guidance. (Reflects “Building Digital Manuals – CBMs (Html set-up)” from your agenda.)

• Advanced DDE/COM data integration and external interfacing: linking the simulation with external systems, data exchange in real time, enabling integration with plant data historians, DCS/SCADA frameworks or other external data sources.

• Coaching / mentoring others: using the simulation as a teaching/training tool to onboard new engineers or operators; leading simulation-based training; providing consultancy and support for simulation adoption in projects.

• Performing model validation, benchmarking, sensitivity analyses, optimisation studies, “what-if” analyses, and project-level simulation consulting — turning the simulation into a strategic engineering and decision-making tool for plant design, upgrades, trouble-shooting or performance optimization.

• Advanced scenario planning: process improvements, debottlenecking, start-up/shutdown, emergency scenarios, process control upgrades — all within a simulated environment before committing changes on real plant.

• Target Audience: Senior engineers, process simulation specialists, consultants, control-systems engineers, engineering managers — anyone who needs mastery of process simulation and wants to leverage CADSIM Plus for digital-twin development, virtual commissioning, operator training, or consulting services.

• Outcome: On completing Level 3, participants will be fully capable of creating and managing high-fidelity digital twins of mineral-processing plants, performing virtual commissioning, training operators, validating control logic, and delivering simulation-based consulting services. They will be qualified to mentor others and lead simulation-based projects, bridging plant design, control logic validation, and operations.