PLC Infographic / Udemy
Last week I received an e-mail from a guy at a company called Udemy. He had stumbled across a post about Automation Direct from about a year ago and thought I might be interested in the infographic above. Sometimes when …
Category: Training
Advanced PLC and Industrial Training
I would like to make myself available to any company or group, worldwide, that desires truly advanced training in industrial automation-related fields.
PLC Simulation Trainers
Today’s post is actually a video… I have mentioned before that I feel kind of like I’ve run out of things to write about. So this is a video I made about my new training equipment. I hope to start …
Industrial Education Ch. 1: Introduction
I have been writing this blog on and off for almost 9 years now. From the beginning my intent has been to provide a free source of information to people interested in Industrial Automation; the field has been very rewarding …
Industrial Education Ch. 2: Early Years
This series of posts discusses the current state of industrial education in the US and around the world. I will cover topics covering elementary through high school education (including the STEM programs), vocational/technical schools and colleges, independent for profit courses …
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 …
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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 …
My New Training Center
Well, after having my office destroyed by a tornado on March 3, I am on the road to a new training facility. This time instead of renting, I decided to buy a house and remodel it into a business place. …
Ladder Logic 309: Allen-Bradley Produced-Consumed Tags (Video)
Today’s post is a continuation on Jason Lafever’s questions on PLC to PLC communications. PLCs often have a need to send messages to each other, and all have some method of directly sending a message to read or write tags …
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Ladder Logic 308: Allen-Bradley’s MSG (Message) Instruction – Video
Today’s video is in response to a post I put on my Facebook automation forum, Automation Training. Jason Lafever asked if I would cover a bit on Allen-Bradley’s MSG (Message) Instruction, and cover Produced-Consumed Tags. I decided to split these …
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PLC Simulation Video
I created this video for practice as much as anything. It discusses some of the ways that simulations can be used with a PLC. I have spent a lot of time over the past few weeks recording training videos. I …
Ladder Logic 306b: More on Simulation
A couple of weeks ago I taught a class to interns at Automation NTH, a local engineering and integration company. I have held classes for both customers and employees of theirs before, and this particular class (NTH University 103b) has …
Build your Own Enclosure
Back in November I posted an article about the PLC Trainer Kits that I had created for people to wire their own PLC. I mentioned that the plastic boxes I was using didn’t travel well, and that the one I …