Programming PLC Training

The three-day course at our Technology Training Centre in Aston, Birmingham provides an introduction to programming PLCs. The content for this course is aimed at engineers and electricians who have a basic understanding of PLC and who have to perform programming.

Course content

• Basic hardware troubleshooting
• Theory of operation
• I/O addressing
• Understanding program notation I, Q, T, C,M, D, etc.
• Step 7 V11.0 user interface
• Setting up a project
• Hardware configuration
• Program representation (LAD, FBD, STL)
• Program structure and logic block types
• Basic instruction set (timers, counters, flip flops)
• Local and global variables
• Data types and parameter types
• Data blocks
• Establishing online connections
• Upload and download projects
• Diagnostic functions (module information/diagnose hardware)
• Program monitoring
• Using cross reference function to aid fault finding
• Searching for specific operands and instructions
• Monitor and modify variables
• Rewire function.

Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course.

Assessment

No assessment but delegates receive a certificate of attendance.

More details

By completing this course, delegates will:

• Work safely on modern industrial electrical/electronic control equipment
• Systematically interrogate a range of commonly used Programmable Logic Controllers
• Understand how PLCs are incorporated into modern electrical circuits
• Interpret basic levels of ladder diagrams to facilitate change
• Gain a basic understanding of inverter variable speed drives and make adjustments
• Carry out basic checks on variable speed drives
• Delegates may progress to stage two of the course, which covers troubleshooting.