Training built around real Allen-Bradley hardware you connect to remotely. Start with fundamentals, then work on live controllers: write the program, download it, and watch it drive real I/O.
The full programme, delivered on site at your own plant in Ontario and built around the equipment your technicians actually work on: PLC programming through to functional safety, drives and instrumentation, SCADA and HMI, machine vision and robotics. 158 instructional hours, about twenty-six days, scheduled in blocks that suit production.
Learn PLCs on real Allen-Bradley hardware you connect to remotely. Understand how a controller is actually wired, inputs, outputs and field devices, then write, download and run your own programs on a live MicroLogix 1100. Hands-on labs with a live dashboard showing the controller respond as your logic runs.
Every tool in this course is a free download. Install Connected Components Workbench, RSLinx and the Micro800 simulator, write and run ladder with no hardware at all, then wire real I/O, commission a PowerFlex drive from the software, and drive it from your program over EtherNet/IP.
Start from nothing. Electrical fundamentals, what is actually inside a control panel, then the controller itself: wire real inputs and outputs, write your first ladder logic in Studio 5000 Logix Designer v30, and download it to a 1769-L33ERMS Compact GuardLogix 5370 running firmware revision 30.011.
Stop copying and pasting rungs. Design User-Defined Data Types that describe real equipment, build Add-On Instructions you can reuse and revise, and turn a working program into one you can maintain.
Get two controllers talking. Message instructions, produced and consumed tags, how to choose between them, and what each one does when the network drops.
Install, wire and commission a PowerFlex 525, add it to the I/O tree with an Add-On Profile, and run the same machine two ways: hardwired, then over EtherNet/IP from your own logic.
Bring real measurements into the controller. Analog signals and scaling, then IO-Link: installing an IODD, commissioning a master, and getting level and flow sensors reporting properly.
Write the parts of a program that ladder is bad at. Tasks and scan time, Structured Text properly, state machines on CASE, fault handling, and laying out a program the next person can follow.
The safety side of the controller: safety tasks and safety tags, CIP Safety I/O, light curtains and area scanners, standard-to-safety tag mapping, and validating a safety program properly.
Three days on ABB IRC5: the FlexPendant, jogging and coordinate systems, tool centre points and work objects, then teaching positions and writing RAPID programs with proper structure, program flow and I/O.
Three days on FANUC R-30iB: the iPendant, power up and jogging, fault recovery, tool and user frames, then motion programming, testing into production, registers, I/O and backup.
Three days on Motoman DX200: the programming pendant and security levels, jogging and coordinate systems, tool data and user frames, then teaching and testing jobs in INFORM with I/O, job flow and alarm handling.
Commission and maintain a SINUMERIK 840D machine tool: the NCU and SIMODRIVE 611D hardware, machine data and how a change actually takes effect, drive and axis startup, the integrated PLC and its interface signals, diagnosis, and the archive that gets a machine back.
Build a machine-vision inspection that survives a production line: choosing what vision can actually do, the In-Sight spreadsheet, locating and fixturing, the ViDi deep-learning tools, getting the result to a PLC without reading a stale one, and the lighting that decides whether any of it works.
Build a working SCADA application on free software you download yourself: the gateway and the Designer, device connections and tags, UDTs that make one screen serve twenty machines, then Perspective views and bindings, alarming, and tag history, opened on a phone at the end of it.
The second Ignition course: the Vision desktop module and the enormous installed base still running it, SQL databases and named queries, Transaction Groups, scripting done sparingly and safely, reporting, security, and deploying a system somebody else has to maintain.
Build a PanelView Plus application from nothing: FactoryTalk View Studio, a live connection to a CompactLogix or GuardLogix, displays and animation, global objects that stop forty screens becoming forty maintenance jobs, alarms, trends and security, then build the runtime, download it, and hand the machine over.
A complete HMI course on free software. Add a PanelView 800 to a CCW project beside a Micro800, design screens for a display where space is genuinely tight, connect them to controller variables, and configure alarms, recipes and security, then download it and commission it.
One job, start to finish: wire a single-phase PowerFlex 525 to a Compact GuardLogix 5370, bring it up over EtherNet/IP, and package it as an object built to scale to a second and third drive.
Expand a Compact GuardLogix 5370 with a 1734 Point I/O node: mount the bus, configure the 1734-AENTR adapter, add digital and analog points, and verify every one from your program.
Short, focused projects on real hardware: adding drives, expanding with Point I/O, and moving up to CompactLogix with Studio 5000. Built for technicians who need one specific skill, not a full term of classes.
Beyond the catalog
Enquiry-based options for individuals, employers and institutions, with no fixed pricing, built around what you actually need.
Custom sessions for individuals, built around what you specifically need to learn.
Maintenance managers can book practical lab sessions to upskill their technicians.
Learn more →Remote lab access and practical assessments delivered online. Courses can be run so your institution issues its own certificate.
Learn more →Practical screening tests for electricians, control technicians and automation technicians.
Learn more →Common questions
Not for the entry-level courses. PLC Training on the MicroLogix 1100 and CompactLogix 5370: Electrical and PLC Foundations both start from the basics: what a PLC is, how a controller is wired, basic instructions, and writing your first working program, with no prior electrical or programming experience needed. Every course card states the level it assumes.
Both. Individual training is live and online, connecting you remotely to real PLC hardware, not a simulator, so you're working with actual I/O and a live controller from wherever you are. Team training can also be delivered in person, on site at your own location and built around your own equipment; where you have nothing free to train on, we bring a PLC, drives and a control panel with us.
Not from us. No course in the catalogue carries a certificate. If you're training through a college or institution, we can arrange for them to issue their own certificate for completed coursework under their own name. See Tailored & Group Training below.
Yes. See Tailored & Group Training below, or contact us directly to discuss your team's needs.
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