PLC basic training - apprentice course

Learn the basics of industrial controls and automate production processes!

Course duration: 8 hours (optionally 16 hours possible)
Cost: € 382.80 per participant
Apprenticeship funding: up to 75% of the course costs (max. €3,000 per apprentice and duration of the apprenticeship contract)
Number of participants: min. 5 and max. 10 people
Location: Gemini Salzburg
Date: on request
Target group: Apprentices from the 1st year of training – particularly suitable for:
• Mechatronics engineer
• Application developer – coding
• Electrical engineer
• Process technician

Benefits of the course

After completing the course, participants will be able to understand and configure programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and independently implement simple control projects. They will identify optimization potential in production processes and use digital twins to analyze and control industrial processes.

Course description

The "PLC Basics Training" course provides practical instruction on the essential principles of industrial automation. Participants learn how PLC systems are structured, how they function, and how they are used in production environments. Participants focus on the combination of control technology, mechatronics, and data analysis.

Course content

• Structure & functionality of PLC systems
  
• Commissioning & configuration of industrial controls
  
• Basics of programming control processes
  
• Creation & use of a digital twin for process simulation
  
• Data analysis & process optimization with real use cases

At the end of the course…

… the participants have sound basic knowledge to safely operate PLC-supported systems in modern industrial environments , to program machine processes and to control them efficiently .