About us

Scantime was started in 2004, after developing and launching the first form of PLC and SCADA online courses, providing a unique look at these systems and the programming involved. Popularity in the online series grew and over the years, we have furthered our online platform, as well as developed industry leading, hands-on courses due to the expertise and experience gained from working in the automation industry for over 40 years, programming Siemens, Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi and Omron PLC’s.

We are now providing training to thousands of individuals and companies worldwide, delivering Automation Programming courses to help ensure correct level of training is given to increase the safety of engineers on the shop-floor and the integrity of processes.

Our unique selling point is that you aren’t taught by someone who has little experience of working on the shop floor, you’re taught by professional engineers from our Automation Dept. who design and install real programs into systems for our clients in many industries, worldwide. Our engineers/trainers teach you real safety programming to industrial standards as well how to work on a Live PLC on the shop floor which is controlling equipment which can be extremely dangerous.

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 and SCADA programming courses not only teach you the basics of the PLC and SCADA 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.

Within our Automation Dept. we assist companies through our Automation Design, Refurbishment and Troubleshooting services. We have recently commissioned a major process refurbishment which saw an upgrade to a 3,000+ SqFt. production line containing over 1200 IO Devices, PLCs, HMIs, 20 Drives and 5 Control Panels. The refurbishment was decided by the client when areas of the process had started to fail late 2018, original suppliers and spare parts were becoming difficult to locate, shutting the process down for extended periods of time. Scantime Automation were brought in initially to help troubleshoot when a serious breakdown stopped production for several days.

We are proud to announce that we have been listed on the North East England Service Provider Register as an approved online supplier, we are also members of NECC and UKRLP.

The North East’s largest business membership organisation representing 4,000 businesses.

A registry of learning providers and provide access to provider details for all stakeholders in the UK.

We've been featured in Bdaily's Industrial News section, the online publisher of UK regional news!

17-year-old TyneMet students, Aaron Armstrong and Liam Surtees, achieved beyond expectation – smashing the pass rate of 60% with Credit and Distinction grades averaging 70-80% at a recent training week at Scantime Engineering.

Some great news from EAL who have just approved us as an officially recognised EAL Training Centre! EAL is the specialist awarding organisation for the engineering, manufacturing and professional trades sectors.

We've been featured in the most recent edition of the BBP Midlands, where they take a look at the role of technology in shaping manufacturing processes in Industrial Automation.

You can check out the newest edition and our feature on production downtime and how much it could be costing your company