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Our Most Popular E-Learning Programming Course

PLC Programming Series (The Complete Package)

The essential, all-in-one course for learning how to program PLCs.

Our most popular eLearning series, which has been used worldwide for over 10 years is based on Ladder Programming. We will walk you through the foundations of PLC Programming, universal to all PLCs, covering common programming instructions as well as how to design and structure a program. You’ll also have access to a PLC programming tool and a Live PLC Control Panel for you to download and test your programs on, ensuring that you fully understand how to design programs.

Programmable Logic Controllers play a central role in all industries. Our flexible learning solutions allow you to increase your skill set at a time and place to suit you. With our PLC Programming eLearning courses, you will gain crucial PLC Programming experience that makes you more desirable to current or future employers allowing you to progress further in your career in Engineering.

With our courses we will teach you why Ladder programming routines such as the routine below will not work correctly and why this exact routine isn't allowed in industrial PLC programming. How many faults can you identify?

Being a PLC trained engineer is a skilled and responsible position. Programming errors caused by an engineer with low skill levels when working on a PLC and SCADA system may result in a loss of production, damage to the process, reduction in efficiency as well as affecting the safety integrity of the operation. 

Any of the above can result in a huge financial loss to a company. Our PLC programming courses not only teach you the basics of the PLC equipment which every programmer is required to learn but more importantly, how to write control routines and programs to a standard that is required in industry.

What's included?

Live PLC Access - Download and test your programs on a Live PLC.
PLC Programming Software - Work with Professional Software for real PLCs.
Course Tutor Assisstance - We're here to help, contact your Course Tutor at any time.
Certification - Upon completion of each Module, you'll recieve a Certificate of Completion.

Time Limit:

This course has a 365-day time limit which can be renewed annually. During the time limit, you will have unlimited access to your course.

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RRP: £239.85 Package Deal: £122.95

What Will I Learn?

Our Most Popular Maintenance & Fault Finding Course

EAL Siemens Industrial Maintenance & Fault Finding Professional

Providing training on S7 PLCs using TIA Portal or STEP7 Professional

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Our PLC Industrial Maintenance & Fault Finding Professional courses are training courses with a difference. Recognised by EAL, we aim to help you become more proactive and confident in working with PLCs safely and efficiently in day-to-day operations and fault finding situations to reduce downtime and increase profitability.

We have been working closely with EAL who is the specialist awarding organisation for the engineering, manufacturing and professional trades sectors, to help develop the first EAL recognised Industrial Maintenance & Fault Finding Professional courses that are essential for anyone who intends to be working at an industrial level with machines and processes controlled by PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers).

Experience Required:

No previous experience or knowledge is required before attending this course however, an understanding of electrical principles is useful.

Main Objectives:

To ensure you are able to work with live PLC's in industrial environments to make certain you do not compromise safety or increase production downtime when working on the shop-floor. Based around STEP7 Professional or TIA Portal, we will walk through the software and the majority of its available programming instructions that are most used throughout programs on the shop-floor. You will learn how to read industrial programs and incorporate instructions into Organizational Blocks, Function Blocks, and Functions. We will explain the Standard Operating Procedures for working on the shop-floor with PLC’s, ensuring you are working safely and efficiently. Fault Finding methods and techniques are then demonstrated and practiced, making you more pro-active when working on processes/machinery, increasing production efficiency and reducing downtime.

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the course, you are expected to have a detailed understanding of the most used instructions and routines in programming, as well as being confident in approaching, maintaining and fault finding with the PLC in all situations.

Course Assessments & Certification:

This training course includes examination periods throughout each day of training. We will also be including additional training time should anyone request further explanation of any topics covered.

There are 2 levels of certificates for this training course:

Official Scantime Training Certificates for each module, outlining all of the subjects covered, this is for the industry as proof on what the learner has understood for when working in industrial environments, these certificates are recognised by companies in industry, worldwide.

Official EAL Training Certificate, this is proof that the learner has successfully completed a recognised training course at a Recognised EAL Training Centre and has passed all of the assessments for the training course.

Who is this Course For?

This course is available to anyone, worldwide, who is interested in gaining unrivaled hands-on experience in working with PLC's.

Duration:

5 Days (4 Days is available upon request)

Times:

09.00 – 17.00 (Monday - Thursday)

09.00 - 15.30 (Friday)

Recognised training by:

Jaguar Land Rover | Toyota USA | UK Royal Mail | Wellstream International | British Engines

BAE Systems | Aquatic Subsea |Unipres | Wienerberger | UK Atomic Energy

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Today’s industrial manufacturing processes are controlled by PLCs, and engineers who work in industry or who are trying to secure jobs in industry, are expected to know how to work with PLCs.

When a production process stops working, engineers in critical situations use the PLC program to locate the cause of the fault. Engineer’s are expected to be able to connect to the PLC, locate specific areas of the program, monitor the Program and work out where the missing signals are, which has caused the process to stop working.

Engineer’s are also expected to make minor modifications correctly and safely to a program to overcome problems that cannot be quickly rectified, these actions are standard practice for PLC engineers to help reduce downtime and get production back up and running.

Engineers who strengthen their skills in this area gain the benefits of increased income and job security.

PLC and SCADA Programming courses are available online, at our training centre and onsite at your place of work.

Available to anyone worldwide, you can now gain professional PLC and SCADA Programming skills from our company who work full time in industry.

If you are someone who does not have sufficient PLC skills, you can gain this experience by enrolling onto our most popular e-Learning courses, the PLC Programming Series. These courses teach you how to Read and Write PLC Programs and how to work with real PLC hardware and software, learn now.

Realise your potential today and start securing your career and future by gaining professional PLC Programming and SCADA Programming skills.

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At Scantime, we aren't just PLC and SCADA Programming trainers, we are Industrial Control Designers with over 45 years of experience, using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), HMI and SCADA. We provide our expertise to companies who work in the Offshore Oil & Gas Industries, Aerospace and Automotive Production, Food & Drink Processing, Battery and Electronic Manufacture, Pharmaceutical Development, Airport Power Generation and other key industries, worldwide.

Our Automation Dept. specialise in PLC & SCADA/HMI Design and Development to IEC 61131-3 standards for Data Analysis, Fluid Pressure Control up to 80,000 PSI, Downtime Monitoring and Distributed Control Systems, using a wide range of PLC and SCADA/HMI equipment including Siemens, Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Omron, Schneider and Motion Control for high speed manufacture.

If you would like to discuss a particular project with a member of our technical staff, contact us.

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