Eighteen courses across PLC, SCADA, HMI, machine vision, robotics and CNC, around 283 instructional hours, delivered online, live with an instructor, or on site at your campus. Offered as a partnership with your college or training institution, not a walk-up individual signup.
Your institution enrols students through us, not individual students signing up on their own. This is enquiry-based, and there's no self-serve checkout for colleges. Get in touch to talk through a partnership.
Eighteen courses and 142 modules: PLC programming from electrical fundamentals through functional safety, SCADA with Ignition, Allen-Bradley HMI, machine vision, three robot brands and CNC startup. Take one course, a stream, or the whole programme.
Content is scoped before delivery. The controller family, drive, HMI platform, robot brand and instrumentation covered are set against what your lab actually runs, or what local employers run, if the point is placement.
The courses sold direct don't include a certificate. Through a college partnership that changes: your institution issues its own certificate for completed coursework, under its own name and its own standards. The credential comes from your college, not from us.
Delivery
Most partnerships mix them: self-paced theory, live sessions for the hard parts, and a block of on-site lab time.
Students work through the material on their own schedule, around a job or other commitments, with no fixed class times. For the hands-on portions they connect remotely to real Allen-Bradley hardware, not a simulator.
Scheduled sessions taught by a working controls engineer, with the cohort together and questions answered as they come up. Suited to the topics students reliably get stuck on: going online with a controller, commissioning a drive, reading a live rung.
Instructor-led delivery at your campus, for a class or a cohort, on your own benches and your own equipment where you have them, or we bring the hardware to you: PLC, drives and a control panel, set up on site so students train on real equipment either way. The same option is available to employers at their plant, which is useful where a college is running training for a local employer's team.
Flagship programme
The whole catalogue assembled into one programme and taught in sequence, the closest thing here to a technician qualification.
Built for institutions that want to put students into automation and controls roles rather than teach a single subject. It runs in blocks, so a college can schedule it across a term or a year.
Controls and PLC: 84 hours
Electrical fundamentals and control panels, the Compact GuardLogix platform, Studio 5000, digital and analog I/O, ladder, timers and counters, structured data with UDTs and Add-On Instructions, EtherNet/IP and controller-to-controller messaging, variable frequency drives, instrumentation and IO-Link, Structured Text and diagnostics, and functional safety.
SCADA and HMI: 36 hours
Ignition end to end: the gateway, the Designer, device connections and tags, UDTs, Perspective visualization, alarming, tag history, SQL databases, scripting, reporting, security and deployment.
Machine vision: 20 hours
What vision can and cannot do, the In-Sight spreadsheet, locating and fixturing, the deep-learning tools, getting a result to a PLC without reading a stale one, and the lighting that decides whether any of it works.
Robotics: 18 hours
One controller family taught properly: safety and the cell, the pendant, jogging and frames, teaching positions, motion instructions, I/O, program structure, backup and recovery.
Optional additions
CNC startup and service on SINUMERIK 840D (24 h), Micro800 and PowerFlex on free tooling (24 h), Allen-Bradley HMI with FactoryTalk View ME (18 h) or PanelView 800 on free tooling (12 h), a second or third robot brand (18 h each), MicroLogix 1100 (11 h).
Roadmap
A camera view onto the physical lab hardware, so a remote student can visually watch changes happen on the real equipment during a session: sensors, motor, pump, cylinder, valves, and the PLC itself, shown alongside a matching view of the same components on the HMI/GUI, so the student can compare the physical hardware state to its on-screen representation side by side. This doesn't exist yet. It is on the roadmap, not part of the course today.
Send a message with your program and the number of students you're looking to bring on, and we'll follow up within 1–2 business days.