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practical hands-on exercises. All courseware is coordinated with the most recent
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GE Fanuc Training - Available Courses:
Title:
Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX Fundamentals
Product:
GE Fanuc® Automation
Course Number:
44A728312-154
Length
4 Days
Cost (USA):
$ 2495
Cost (CAN):
$ 2495
On-Site Training:
Call for pricing
Who should attend?
This course is designed for process, automation, or instrumentation engineers and system integrators who will be developing, configuring, and using applications on an iFIX system.
Prerequities:
Participants should have a working knowledge of Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and/or Windows XP operating systems.
Course Details:
The Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX Fundamentals course is designed to provide a good working knowledge of iFIX. Valuable hands-on lab exercises are provided which guide students through the building and modification of the HMI application.
Upon completion of this Course, the student will be able to:
Understand architecture communication between iFIX SCADA Servers and iFIX iClient nodes.
Configure iFIX nodes using the System Configuration Utility.
Configure I/O Drivers to communicate with iFIX.
Create and modify standard Process Database tags.
Create graphic screens (pictures) using a wide variety of object types and animations.
Design and build a picture navigation strategy.
Create basic scripts using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
Configure alarming and create screens to monitor and acknowledge alarms.
Use trending to monitor both real-time and historical data.
Design and build a system wide security strategy.
Use a variety of iFIX Utilities and Operating System administrative options to troubleshoot project or system process faults.
Title:
FIX32 Fundamentals
Product:
GE Fanuc® Automation
Course Number:
44A728312-100
Length
4 Days
Cost (USA):
$ 2700
Cost (CAN):
$ 2700
On-Site Training:
Call for pricing
Who should attend?
This course is designed for process, automation, or instrumentation engineers and system integrators who will be developing, configuring, and using applications on an FIX system.
Prerequities:
Participants should have a working knowledge of Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and/or Windows XP operating systems.
Course Details:
The FIX Fundamentals course is designed to provide a good working knowledge of FIX. Valuable hands-on lab exercises are provided which guide students through the building and modification of the HMI application.
Upon completion of this Course, the student will be able to:
Understand architecture communication between FIX SCADA nodes and FIX View nodes.
Configure FIX nodes using the System Configuration Utility.
Configure I/O Drivers to communicate with FIX.
Create and modify standard Process Database tags.
Create graphic screens (pictures) using a wide variety of object types and animations.
Create basic scripts using the FIX Command Language.
Configure alarming and create screens to monitor and acknowledge alarms.
Use trending to monitor both real-time and historical data.
Design and build a system wide security strategy.
Use DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) to create and display reports.
Use a variety of FIX Utilities and Operating System administrative options to troubleshoot project or system process faults.
Title:
Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX Advanced
Product:
GE Fanuc® Automation
Course Number:
44A728312-251
Length
4 Days
Cost (USA):
$ 2495
Cost (CAN):
$ 2495
On-Site Training:
Call for pricing
Who should attend?
This course is principally designed for process, automation, or instrumentation engineers and system integrators who will be developing, configuring, and using applications created with iFIX.
Prerequities:
Completion of Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX Fundamentals course (44A728312-154) is a must! Participants should have a working knowledge of Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and/or Windows XP operating systems. Familiarity with
Course Details:
The Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX Advancedcourse is designed to pick up where the iFIX Fundamentals course ends. The course is intended to provide the student a base level of proficiency using some of the product's more advanced features. The student will become familiar with some of the tools and concepts available for optimizing and troubleshooting iFIX.
Upon completion of this Course, the student will be able to:
Understand detailed architecture communication between iFIX SCADA Servers and iFIX iClient nodes.
Configure iFIX to communicate with OPC Servers and configure OPC Clients to communicate with iFIX.
Apply optimization techniques for I/O Drivers, Process Database, and graphics.
Create Tag Groups, Key Marcos, ActiveX objects, and Global objects to enhance graphic screens.
Configure iFIX to commutate with Relational Databases, including setting up ODBC, iFIX Database, iFIX alarms, and iFIX graphics using VisiconX.
Design and build a system wide security strategy including Electronic Signatures.
Create reports to display iFIX data using Access, Excel, and Crystal Reports.
Understand and implement a SCADA Failover strategy.
Understand how Terminal Services can be used with iFIX.
Title:
Proficy Historian Development
Product:
GE Fanuc® Automation
Course Number:
44A728312-345
Length
2 Days
Cost (USA):
$ 1500
Cost (CAN):
$ 1500
On-Site Training:
Call for pricing
Who should attend?
This course is designed for process, automation, or instrumentation engineers and system integrators who will be developing, configuring, and using applications on an iHistorian system.
Prerequities:
Participants should have a working knowledge of Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and/or Windows XP operating systems.
Course Details:
The Proficy Historian Development course is designed to provide the student with a good working knowledge of iHistorian. It is intended for new users, however, the material in this course assumes prior knowledge of GE Fanuc Automation software. The course includes lab time for configuring and applying the iHistorian software to process applications.
Upon completion of this Course, the student will be able to:
Understand architecture communication between iHistorian Servers and iHistorian Client nodes.
Configure iHistorian nodes using the iHistorian Administrator.
Configure iHistorian Data Collectors, including iFIX Collector, OPC Collector, and File Collector.
Manage and configure archives.
View collected data using the Excel Add-In Client.
Configure the iHistorian OLE DB Provider.
Configure the Calculation Collector and the Server-to-Server Collector.
Design and build an iHistorian security strategy.
Use a variety of iHistorian Utilities and Operating System administrative options to troubleshoot.
Use the iHistorian SDK to enhance an iHistorian application.
Title:
Proficy Real-Time Information Portal Development
Product:
GE Fanuc® Automation
Course Number:
44A728312-241
Length
2 Days
Cost (USA):
$ 1500
Cost (CAN):
$ 1500
On-Site Training:
Call for pricing
Who should attend?
This course is designed for process, automation, or instrumentation engineers, system integrators and any other information technology (IT) professionals who will be developing, configuring, and using infoAgent applications.
Prerequities:
Participants should have a working knowledge of Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and/or Windows XP operating systems.
Course Details:
The Proficy Real-Time Information Portal Development course is designed to provide the student with a good working knowledge of infoAgent. The course includes lab time for configuring and applying the infoAgent software to process applications.
Upon completion of this Course, the student will be able to:
Understand architecture and communication between the infoAgent Server and infoAgent Clients.
Install and configure an infoAgent Server, including the configuration and building of an infoAgent security strategy.
Create infoAgent displays using basic graphic objects, datalinks, grids, form components, event charts, and XY charts.
Connect to and retrieve data from a variety of data sources.
Title:
Using VBA with Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX
Product:
GE Fanuc® Automation
Course Number:
44A728312-354
Length
4 Days
Cost (USA):
$ 2495
Cost (CAN):
$ 2495
On-Site Training:
Call for pricing
Who should attend?
This course is principally designed for process, automation, or instrumentation engineers and system integrators who will be developing, configuring, and using applications created with iFIX.
Prerequities:
Completion of iFIX Fundamentals course (44A728312-154) is a must! Participants should have a working knowledge of Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and/or Windows XP operating systems. Familiarity with some programming language would be helpful, but not required.
Course Details:
The Using VBA with iFIX course is designed for those who wish to acquire a basic knowledge of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) within iFIX. This knowledge will allow the student to generate VBA based solutions for their special system requirements. The course begins with an introduction to VBA and why VBA is so important in today's applications. Lectures, coding examples, and labs are included in this course on the important aspects of VBA, as well as reference to Visual Basic syntax. This course will demonstrate to the student how to enhance runtime operation to solve special problems.
Upon completion of this Course, the student will be able to:
Understand how VBA functions inside of iFIX.
Create VBA procedures (functions and sub-procedures).
Understand and create (declare) variables of various data types (including arrays) and use them to make expressions.
Use simple VBA code structures including decisions, loops, and collections.
Use the VBA MessageBox and InputBox commands and create VBA Forms.
Access iFIX data and use iFIX Subroutines and Methods
Create and use Error Handlers in VBA and use VBA debugging tools.
Access Relational Databases using ADO (ActiveX Data Object).
Use VBA Automation to make References to other applications.
This course is designed for Operators, Application Designers, and System Managers.
Prerequities:
Participants should have a working knowledge of Windows 2000 and/or Windows NT 4.0 operating systems.
Course Details:
The Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY Plant Edition Introduction course is a beginning level course focusing on the multiple aspects of project configuration. Valuable hands-on lab exercises are provided which guide students through the building and modification of the HMI application.
Upon completion of this Course, the student will be able to:
Create and configure a new Project including the Point Database of the project.
Configure graphic screens.
Create Events and Actions using the Basic Control Engine, including simple scripts using a VB compliant language.
Create Database Logging tables.
Create and modify Trend Charts and Alarm Viewers.
Use a variety of HMI System Utilities and Operating System administrative options to troubleshoot project or system process faults.
Understand architecture communication between CIMPLICITY Servers and Viewers.
Work with Variables, Animation and ActiveX Controls.
Title:
Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY PE Advanced
Product:
GE Fanuc® Automation
Course Number:
IC684TR000302
Length
3 Days
Cost (USA):
$ 1900
Cost (CAN):
$ 1900
On-Site Training:
Call for pricing
Who should attend?
This course is designed for Application Engineers and System Managers.
Prerequities:
Participants should have a working knowledge of Windows 2000 and/or Windows NT 4.0 operating systems; have taken the Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY Plant Edition Introduction course and have at least 6 months experience using Plant Edition.
Course Details:
This Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY Advanced course will introduce the students to configuring clients and servers, OPC client and server, server redundancy, classes and objects, Web View and Recipes. Students will also look at CIMPLICITY SQL, ODBC basics, CimEdit scripting - advanced feature in trending. An experienced instructor uses hands-on lab exercises and demonstrations to guide the student in learning the advanced features of Plant Edtion to develop projects.
Upon completion of this Course, the student will be able to:
Configure Client nodes (Viewers)
Connect CIMPLICITY OPC Client to a 3rd party OPC Server
Connect a 3rd party OPC Client to CIMPLICITY OPC Server
Configure ODBC Data Sources
Configure the Tools in CIMPLICITY SQL
Create a script that deals with Trend Charts
Configure Web View and Broadcast sessions
Work with Classes and Objects
Configure Server Redundancy
Configure Recipes
Manage Recipes
Title:
Proficy Plant Applications Fundamentals
Product:
GE Fanuc® Automation
Course Number:
44A728319-104
Length
3 Days
Cost (USA):
$ 1900
Cost (CAN):
$ 1900
On-Site Training:
Call for pricing
Who should attend?
The course is intended for Plant Applications Administrators that are responsible for configuration and support of the software within their organization.
Prerequities:
Participants should have a basic understanding of Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) & Microsoft Excel. Participants should also have an understanding of basic manufacturing terminology.
Course Details:
Proficy Plant Applications Fundamentals classroom training will teach the student how to configure and maintain Plant Applications software. This course provides an entry-level introduction to fundamental Plant Applications capabilities and applications.
This includes learning to configure the Plant Model, Products, Production Events, Variables, User Displays and User Security. Students will also be taught Report Server Administration and Web Client functionality, how to extract data from the Plant Applications database using the Excel Add-In and display results through the Plant Applications Web interface. Valuable hands-on lab exercises are provided which guide students through the configuration of the out-of-the-box capabilities of Proficy Plant Applications.
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
Describe Plant Applications architecture and design;
Utilize the Plant Applications tools to maintain and enhance the working environment; and
Discuss the Reporting capabilities of Plant Applications.
Title:
Proficy Plant Applications Efficiency
Product:
GE Fanuc® Automation
Course Number:
44A728319-105
Length
2 Days
Cost (USA):
$ 1500
Cost (CAN):
$ 1500
On-Site Training:
Call for pricing
Who should attend?
Administrators of Proficy Plant Applications who want to configure the Plant Applications Efficiency module.
Prerequities:
Proficy Plant Applications Fundamentals classroom training or equivalent experience.
Course Details:
Proficy Plant Applications Efficiency classroom training will teach the student how to configure the Plant Applications software to produce Efficiency related metrics for their plant environment. This course provides an introduction to the concept of Efficiency Management and Overall Equipment Effectiveness.
This includes learning to configure Downtime, Waste and Production Metrics (OEE). Students will also be taught how to utilize captured Plant Applications data in web enabled analytical tools to explore the why, what and when that impacts manufacturing efficiency. Valuable hands-on lab exercises are provided which guide students through the configuration of the out-of-the-box capabilities of the Proficy Plant Applications Efficiency Module.
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
List the overall capabilities of Plant Applications;
Describe the concept of Overall Equipment Effectiveness;
Configure Downtime;
Configure Waste;
Configure Production Metrics; and
List the available Reports in Plant Applications.
Title:
PLC Maintenance with Proficy Logic Developer ME
Product:
GE Fanuc® Automation
Course Number:
44A728312-402
Length
3 Days
Cost (USA):
$ 1600
Cost (CAN):
$ 1600
On-Site Training:
Call for pricing
Who should attend?
This course is intended for anyone who will be troubleshooting GE Fanuc PLC control systems using Proficy Logic Developer PLC Machine Edition software. The course is designed for electrical technicians, electricians, and/or engineers beginning to work with Logic Developer PLC, who will be tasked with modifying and maintaining PLC programs and hardware.
Prerequities:
Participants should be comfortable operating in a Microsoft Windows environment and should have a basic understanding of electrical/control fundamentals.
Course Details:
The GE Fanuc PLC Maintenance course provides the student with the skills necessary to troubleshoot and repair faults in GE Fanuc programmable logic controllers (90-30, 90-70, VersaMax, RX7i and RX3i). The class is taught using Logic Developer PLC software, which is part of the Machine Edition family of products. The focus of this course is teaching students how to interpret existing ladder logic programs for troubleshooting purposes. Students are also taught how to use the troubleshooting tools within the software to determine where faults have occurred and how to correct them.
What tasks will be taught in this class?
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Define the function of each hardware component of GE Fanuc PLC systems
Describe the Machine Edition software environment
Configure and establish communication to the GE Fanuc PLC hardware
Configure GE Fanuc PLC hardware using Logic Developer PLC software
Define the instruction set(s) for GE Fanuc PLCs
Modify existing ladder logic in GE Fanuc PLCs
Access and interpret GE Fanuc PLC and I/O fault tables
Use troubleshooting tools within Logic Developer PLC software
Interpret existing ladder logic for troubleshooting purposes
This course provides the opportunity for individuals who are or who will be involved in the programming, operation and/or troubleshooting of control systems developed using Proficy Logic Developer (PLC). The course is designed for electrical technicians, electricians, and programmers beginning to work with Proficy Logic Developer PLC, who will be tasked with developing, modifying and maintaining PLC programs.
Prerequities:
Participants should be comfortable operating in an MS Windows environment, and have a basic understanding of electrical/control fundamentals.
Course Details:
The Proficy Logic Developer Machine Edition (PLC for 90/30, 90/70,VersaMax, RX7i and RX3i) course familiarizes the student with the control logic development tool suite used to program the entire family of GE Fanuc industrial control hardware. Emphasis is given to understanding and operating in the development environment, understanding the available logic development options, generating programs using the ladder logic language option and communicating with control target(s) (90/30, 90/70, VersaMax, RX7i and RX3i PLCs). An experienced instructor is provided to guide the student using demonstrations and hands on lab exercises so they are prepared to develop control solutions.
What tasks will be taught in this class?
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Describe Control System Architecture & Operational Fundamentals;
Describe (Series 90-30 or 90-70 or Versamax, RX7i or RX3i) Basic System Operation & Components;
Operate Proficy Machine Edition;
Establish and Utilize Communications to the Controller;
Create a New Project - Basic Configuration of the Controller;
Expand Controllers and Describe Specialty Modules;
Create a New Project - A Ladder Logic Program;
Explain Relay and Contact Logic Elements;
Explain Timer and Counter Functions;
Work with Numbers in Relational and Arithmetic Operations;
Work with Data Move and Numerical Operations;
Work with bit operations;
Describe some Advanced Programming Concepts.
Title:
Proficy Plant Applications Quality
Product:
GE Fanuc® Automation
Course Number:
44A728319-106
Length
2 Days
Cost (USA):
$ 1500
Cost (CAN):
$ 1500
On-Site Training:
Call for pricing
Who should attend?
The Proficy Plant Applications Quality course if designed for administrators of Proficy Plant Applications who want to configure the Plant Applications Quality module.
Prerequities:
Participants should have successfully completed the Proficy Plant Applications Fundamentals classroom training or have equivalent experience.
Course Details:
Proficy Plant Applications Quality classroom training will teach the student how to configure the Plant Applications software to capture precise specifications of a product run, and manage the quality of all raw materials, in-process products and finished goods. This course provides an introduction to the concept of Specification Management and how the relationship of products with specifications can streamline the process of maintaining product information. This includes learning to configure site specific and equipment specific product specifications, Alarm conditions, and Statistical Process Control (SPC) analysis tools. Students will also be taught how to utilize captured Plant Applications data in web enabled analytical tools to expose product relationships for analysis and troubleshooting, and to measure variation in the plant manufacturing process. Valuable hands-on lab exercises are provided which guide students through the configuration of the out-of-the-box capabilities of the Proficy Plant Applications Quality Module.
