ONLINE PLC COURSE INFORMATION

Distance Learning PLC Courses established 2003

PLC Programming falls into 2 categories - Attend a Training Centre and take a 4day course in any PLC make and this teaches you about working with that specific type of PLC and how to use its programming software. The second category is how to READ & WRITE programs to control industrial processes, this is the hardest part and can take years of working in many types of industry with PLCs every day of the week. Learning about Timers, Counters and basic Instructions is only a tiny part of the basics but NOT how prorgams are really constructed, engineers who can read and write programs earn from £30,000 to £45,000 per year, they cannot earn this income without being professionally taught. An important part of programming is knowing how to apply SAFETY in the program and STRUCTURE for faster Fault Finding to ensure the process downtime is minimised and much more, this is REAL PLC programming.

Scantime Engineers have been working with PLCs - HMI - SCADA since 1982, working in Pharmaceutical, Electronics, Paper, Automotive, International Airports, Oil & Gas. The knowledge gained over those years is being taught on our Online PLC & SCADA Training courses since 2003, and are available for ANYONE who wishes to ensure their SKILL level is increased or maintained at an acceptable level.

Training with Scantime is in a relaxed and friendly way, you will have your own personal tutor who is available to you over the entire course, anything that you do not understand he will help you with and because of this we have a 100% pass rate. There is no pressure to complete the training by a certain time or date, you can spend all year if you want and even take a break over several weeks or months, once you buy a course it is yours to utilise whenever you wish.

People ask us do we use simulators on the course - the answer is no, Why? The reason is that simulators cannot teach you programming, when you are on a live process in a real environment you cannot use simulators, you have to be able to read the program and determine what is going to happen - However Scantime now provide you with the ability to Connect your Home or Work PC to REAL PLCs at our Training Centre and download your programs into our Industrial Process Emulators and then watch the program and Industrial Process working once you have completed the training, also you can practice Fault Finding by seeing a stopped production line and then see if you can locate and correct the faults.

So if you want to learn professional PLC programming learn with the professionals at Scantime, all of our courses are Industry Approved, companies have their engineers on board with us, so no matter who you are you will be made welcome. We currently have several courses available online with more being developed.

STUDENT FEEDBACK:

What some of our Students say on our online courses:

Edward - Germany - Thank you for the good news. It's encouraging to finish the first course.

Rob - UK - I've enjoyed the course & it's certainly helped me at work.

Sherman 2010
Just to let you know how taking your PLC course helped me at work, I was asked to design and build a control panel for our company's old machine, our Technical manager had doubts that the machine would ever work again and I was complimented by him when it worked, it saved our company having to get a new machine in these rough economic times. I COULD NOT DO IT WITHOUT SCANTIME, your COURSE made it possible for me ,and now saved my company 10s of thousands of dollars - THANKS keep up the good work.

Steve -UK - Dear Scantime, I would just like to take the opportunity to express my gratitude for all the support that you gave me during this course. With a very big thanks to my course tutor.
I can't fault the way the course was set out and executed. Many thanks from a satisfied student.

James - USA - I now understand and it does make sense. There really is a great deal of things to take into consideration when programming!

Steve - UK - In a recent interview my answer to “Can you read a logic table?” Had to be “No”. It goes without saying that I didn’t get the job… so here I am.

Jeff -IRELAND - During 2004/2005 I enrolled with Scantime Engineering Ltd for two on-line courses on programming Omron and Mitsubishi PLC’s. Having never done this type of ‘learning’ in the past, I was somewhat apprehensive in terms of what to expect. I need not have worried. I found both the courses to be really interesting and extremely useful. ( I still sometimes refer to my course notes, even now!). My tutor, I found to be patient, professional, and extremely helpful in nursing me through these two courses, but at the same time not letting me off too lightly and making me think for myself. Also, his response times to my many questions was always very prompt.

Trevor -NEW ZEALAND - Many Thanks once again for your feedback on my work and your positive encouragement. I have definitely found your course useful and know that I've learned quite a bit from it.

Miron - SWEDEN - Your guidance was excellent, every point was well understood. I am looking for the next step in my training and I am glad for your availabilty to advice me. I am waiting for the certificate and course material, it is my best present for the end of the year.

Andre - S. AFRICA - Thanks for all your assistance during the course. I will enrole for Part 3 soon.

Bertus - S. AFRICA - Hi Dave I appreciate your patience and guidance through the courses, I intend doing Part3 next then Scada.

Kenny - USA - Now, I can see that placing the Limit contacts immediately after the 0.00 or 0.01 signal is a better choice because anything after that button in those rungs, once the limit has been reached, will definitely be disabled. I can see even clearer now why it's important to include the 0.00 or 0.01 in the speed control rung. In the above scenario, when the button is released, even if the DEC could start decrementing from the max speed again, it won't be able to do so because the 0.01 has broken the contact.

Donovan -NEW ZEALAND - Thanks for the help and support on the above,I am now looking forward to starting the next stage with you.

Igoris - UK - First off all I should say thank You and all ScanTime staff for opportunity to get PLC courses on line.
These courses were very helpful for me because I have achieved some very important objectives.

Jesus - KUWAIT - Thanks for the help and all the assistance and comments in my course. It greatly help me in my work at present and hopefully will pave way for a better oppurtunity in the near future. I am planning to continue on the Programming Course Part3.

Akram - CANADA - Hi Dave, Thank you very much for your prompt reply and guidance regarding course. I will defiantly follow all the instruction you provided. Thanks again.

Paul -USA - Here is my latest creation. Yeagh i had thought about the process run control after i sent my program. At first thought was important to keep those alarms involved but later after some thought realized those other alarms wil handle themselves and don't need to be apart of the program in the way i had done. Thanks again.

Joe - UK - Its the first time I've done a course online like this one before, and its been a very worth while course to done. I would recommend it to anyone interest in PLC'S. As an Technician with lots of Omron systems on site, programming with Syswin it was ever a big help. I will do the next part. Keep up the good work...See you in part 3.

Lee - SINGAPORE - Thank you, I really appreciate it that you let me troubleshoot the program and just give me some clues, as it really helped me sharpen my PLC programming skills.  At last I finished the course.

Leonid -CANADA - Thank you very much for your very valuable advice. I appreciate your cooperation very much.

Neil - UK - Hi Dave thank you for you help on this course it has been very interesting, does the part three course cover allen bradley systems as this is what we use at the foundry i work at many thanks neil.

Richard - UK - Hello Dave. Thanks for that. I have really enjoyed the course. There have been one or two occasions when i was not sure exactly what was being asked of me and that may account for some of the mistakes. When i first set out on this course i always intended to carry on with the Scada when i completed the plc one and that is still the case. However now i understand that you do a Part 3 Plc course. I would be very interested in details about the Part 3, and welcome your views as to whether i should do this before or after the Scada course. Thanks once again.

Rob - UK - Thanks a lot for all your help, I felt the course helped a lot. I’m booked on to course 3, so I’ll be making a start on that shortly.

Robert - UK - Thanks for all your help and support during this course.

Shailesh - MAURITIUS - Thank you very much for your advice and praise. In fact, I will soon purchase scada part 1. I received my certificate and courseware yesterday. Thank you very much.

Sherman - ANTIGUA - Hi Dave, I enjoyed this course very much , I am looking foward to part 3 and learning with you.

Szymon - UK - Thank you for your help. This course taught me a lot useful things about PLC programing. Maybe next month I will look after another course.

Trevor - UK - It’s been a long time that my brain has been stretched to this degree.Thank you for the interesting course.

Phil - UK - Thank you for all the help you have given me in the course. I am knocking on now nearly 50 and had only recently started to work with PLC's in my new job, and thought I was too old to pickup such a complex subject. I have already put to use at work my new skills.

Royston - UK - Thanks, I'm absolutely delighted. Thanks for all your support throughout this course, your tutoring style is excellent, never given the answer away but giving pointers wherever required and more importantly, leaving the student to mull over the problem. It does make it hard work for the student, but the learning process is all the better for it.

Francis - MALI - Yes i am enjoying the course to be honest and the encouragement i am getting from you. Thank you very much.Looking forward to hear from you soon.