Advanced HMI and Training
Several years ago I posted on Advanced HMI and described what it is, how you can get it and where I was at the time on developing a training HMI. The picture above shows where I am now. I finally …
Category: Training
Mastering the Machine Workshops
The Mastering the Machine Workshops are a series of lectures and hands-on lab exercises with the goal of training students on system integration, design, and programming in industrial automation. In last week’s post, the process of learning industrial automation skills …
Content Creation
Wow, it’s been a while since I posted… That’s because I’ve been creating lots of content for the Automation Academy, and I am writing a new book on industrial maintenance and troubleshooting. Both require a lot of writing, pictures, and …
A Tale of Three Students
As I approach the one year anniversary of the tornado and the onset of Covid-19, I can’t help but think of how my training approach has changed. Automation Training classes have been few and much smaller, and of course they …
A Different Kind of Training
After months of being out of the training environment due to the pandemic, September took me back on the road. In addition to standard training classes for Automation Training (Siemens and Omron), I was approached by a customer to do …
Online Business and the Membership Academy
This week I put out an announcement in various places (Linked In, my Facebook group and direct emails) about a new learning opportunity I am releasing around the end of September. I have already released various videos on my YouTube …
Advanced HMI
Typically I don’t do unsolicited free advertisements for companies or websites, but I really need to make an exception here for Advanced HMI. Advanced HMI provides a FREE open source HMI platform that runs on a PC. While they do …
A Video on Videos
This is a video I made on how to study my other videos. I plan to include this with all of my video courses as a guide for how to navigate the material. I’ve found that scrolling the video back …
Online Courses and the Odyssey Projects
As the end of the month approaches I have been able to complete a few projects and make progress on a couple more. I have finally been able to make a couple of online training courses available online. I thought …
Videos and Online Training
As I’ve mentioned in my last few posts, I’ve been creating a lot of videos lately, and have been working on various online courses. The picture above is a Camtasia (the software I use for video editing) screen shot of …