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 …
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 …
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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