EPGDIA - Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Automation

Every live class, day by day

All 24 live online class days as the portal schedules them, 4 hours each. Open a week to see each day's topics.

1. Week 1Siemens PLC foundations6 live online class days, plus 17 online modules (22 h); weekly test 1

   • EPG1Siemens PLC 1: hardware, wiring and your first TIA Portal project: Automation pyramid, PLC parts and the scan cycle, S7-1200, S7-1200 G2, S7-1500, ET 200SP, DC/DC/DC, AC/DC/RLY and the order number, 24 V DC wiring, sinking vs sourcing, transistor vs relay outputs, New TIA Portal V21 project and device configuration, IP address, subnet and download
   • EPG2Siemens PLC 2: bit logic and the DOL starter: NO and NC contacts, coils, Wire NC, program NO, Seal-in and interlocks, Set/reset and which wins, P_TRIG, N_TRIG, R_TRIG, Tags and tag tables, Online monitoring, LAD vs FBD, DOL starter: MPCB, contactor, OLR 95-96
   • EPG3Siemens PLC 3: timers, counters and the star-delta starter: TON, TOF, TP, TONR, Time literals and instance DBs, CTU, CTD, CTUD, Star-delta sequence and dead time, Star/delta interlocking, OLR at 0.58 x FLC, Traffic light with one TON, Car-park counter with CTUD
   • EPG4Siemens PLC 4: data types, addressing and maths: Bool, Byte, Word, Int, DInt, Real, Time, String, Memory areas %I %Q %M and DBs, Optimized vs standard DBs, Bytes, words, double words and byte order, MOVE and compare instructions, ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV, MOD, CONVERT, ROUND, TRUNC, Integer overflow and truncation
   • EPG5Siemens PLC 5: program structure with OBs, FCs, FBs and DBs: OB1 and the cycle time, OB100 startup, OB30 cyclic interrupt, FC vs FB, Input, Output, InOut, Static, Temp, Instance DB vs global DB, Single and multi-instance, Project and global libraries, types
   • EPG6Siemens PLC 6: analog signals, scaling and PID_Compact: 4 to 20 mA and 0 to 10 V, 2-wire and 4-wire transmitters, Raw 0 to 27,648, over-range and 32,767, NORM_X and SCALE_X, High/low alarms with dead band, PID terms P, I and D, PID_Compact in OB30, Pretuning, fine tuning, uploading parameters
2. Week 2Siemens advanced PLC and HMI6 live online class days, plus 20 online modules (24 h); weekly test 2

   • EPG7Siemens PLC 7: SCL and sequences as state machines: SCL syntax: := and =, # and quotes, IF, ELSIF, ELSE, CASE with ELSE, FOR loops over arrays, Timers in SCL, State machines numbered in tens, Fault state and timeouts, PLCSIM and PLCSIM Advanced
   • EPG8Siemens PLC 8: PROFINET, drives and diagnostics: IO controller and IO devices, PROFINET device names, Remote I/O, and a second S7-1200 as an I-device with transfer areas, SINAMICS G120: control unit, power module, PROFINET, Telegram 1: STW1, NSOLL_A, ZSW1, NIST_A, Topology view: ports and neighbours, Diagnostic buffer, Watch and force tables, cross-reference, Online/offline compare, S7-300 end of new orders, October 2025
   • EPG9Siemens HMI 1: panels, HMI connection, tags, buttons, I/O fields and navigation: Basic, Comfort, Unified Basic and Unified Comfort panels, WinCC Basic, Comfort, Advanced, Professional and Unified, HMI connection and IP addressing in one subnet, HMI tags, internal tags, acquisition cycle, SetBitWhileKeyPressed, SetBit, InvertBit, ActivateScreen, I/O fields: mode, format pattern, tag limits, Text lists and symbolic I/O fields, Panel bits go to a DB, never to %I or %Q, Lab: motor control screen
   • EPG10Siemens HMI 2: alarms, alarm classes, trends, recipes and user management: Discrete alarms: trigger tag and bit number, Word byte order: MW10 bit 0 is M11.0, Slice access (.%X) for alarm bits, Analog alarms on scaled values; hysteresis, Alarm classes: Errors and Warnings, Alarm view, alarm indicator, alarm buffer, Trend view with a limit pen, Recipes: elements and data records, Users, groups, authorisations, logoff time, Lab: alarm and trend page for tank T-101
   • EPG11Siemens HMI 3: templates, faceplates, scripts, WinCC Unified and a full PLC + HMI project: Templates and a consistent screen frame, Faceplate types, UDTs, versions and instances, PLC-HMI interface DB: commands, status, parameters, Accessible and Writable from HMI/OPC UA, VBScript and SmartTags on Comfort panels, WinCC Unified: browser runtime, JavaScript, Tags().Read and Write, Sequence in a CASE; process simulation in OB30, Lab: mixing tank on PLCSIM with runtime simulation
   • EPG12Siemens SCADA 1: SCADA vs HMI, the WinCC family, architecture, tags and process screens: SCADA, HMI and PLC: who controls, who supervises, WinCC V7/V8, Professional, Unified PC, Advanced, Server, operator clients, web clients, Terminal bus and process bus, Channel, channel unit, connection, tag, PowerTag licensing and counting tags, ISA-101 display levels and high-performance screens, Tag naming: area_equipment_signal, Lab: plant overview screen
3. Week 3Siemens SCADA and Delta PLC6 live online class days, plus 21 online modules (26 h); weekly test 3

   • EPG13Siemens SCADA 2: alarm logging, tag logging, trends and shift reports: Alarm Logging: came in, went out, acknowledged, ISA-18.2 rates: floods, chattering, stale alarms, The hit list and bad actors, Tag Logging: acquisition versus archiving cycle, averages, Archive segments, backup and storage sizing, Trends read from archives, Report layouts and print jobs, Shift totals: sum of one-minute averages ÷ 60, Lab: shift report and trend
   • EPG14Siemens SCADA 3: user rights, OPC UA, redundancy and the three-area plant project: Users, groups and authorisations, Automatic logoff and a secured runtime, OPC UA: endpoint, port 4840, security mode and policy, Certificates and trust; subscriptions, OPC UA server on the S7-1500 and S7-1200, Redundant server pair and archive synchronisation, MRP ring and S7-1500R/H, Availability arithmetic and common causes, Lab: three-area plant SCADA and hand-over
   • EPG15Delta PLC 1: families, ISPSoft, wiring and a star-delta starter: Delta PLC families: DVP-ES2/ES3/SS2/SE, AS, AH, AX, ISPSoft vs WPLSoft vs DIADesigner, and DIAStudio, COMMGR drivers and the simulator, Sinking and sourcing on a DVP: the S/S terminal, Relay (R) and NPN transistor (T) outputs, Devices X, Y (octal), M, S, T, C, D, LD, LDI, AND, ANI, OR, OUT, SET, RST, LDP, Download, RUN and online monitoring, Lab: DOL and star-delta on a Delta PLC
   • EPG16Delta PLC 2: timers, counters, compare, move and special relays: Timer time base by number: 100 ms, 10 ms, 1 ms, Accumulative timers, M1028 and M1038, CNT and DCNT; 16-bit and 32-bit counters, CMP, ZCP and comparison contacts, MOV, MOVP, DMOV, BMOV, ZRST, ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV and 32-bit results, General and latched D registers, Special relays and registers: M1000, M1002, M1013, D1000, D1010-D1012, Lab: traffic light and conveyor sorting
   • EPG17Delta PLC 3: analog, high-speed counting, Modbus and drive control: DVP04AD control registers, FROM and TO; AS-series hardware configuration, Analog output: TO into an output channel, 0 to 10 V, 4-20 mA scaling and broken-loop detection, High-speed counter C251 on X0/X1, x2 and x4 counting, RS-485 wiring, termination and one master per line, COM2 setup: D1120, M1120, M1143, D1129; a DVP as slave (D1121), MODRW function codes 3, 6 and 16, MS300 parameters 00-20, 00-21, 09-00, 09-01, 09-04 (theory), Control word 2000H, frequency 2001H, status 2100H-2105H (theory), G120 on terminals: ON/OFF1, fixed speeds, 0 to 10 V reference on AI0, Lab: G120 speed control from the DVP; Modbus RTU between two DVPs
   • EPG18Delta PLC 4: subroutines, step ladder, troubleshooting and Siemens to Delta: CALL, SRET, FEND and P pointers, Timers allowed in subroutines: T184-T199, Step ladder: STL, SET Sn, RET; SFC in ISPSoft, Latched step relays and ZRST on M1002, ERROR LED states and the error registers, Input and output fault diagnosis, Mapping %I/%Q/%M/MW/DB to X/Y/M/D, Lab: filling station mini project
4. Week 4Delta HMI, career preparation and final exam6 live online class days, plus 17 online modules (24 h); final exam

   • EPG19Delta HMI 1: DIAScreen, PLC link, screens and alarms: DOP-100 family: sizes and type letters, DIAScreen, DIAStudio and the Lua editor, DOP-B to DOP-100: DOPSoft 4.00 conversion, Delta DVP driver, port settings and station number, One master per RS-485 line, Buttons: momentary, maintained, set, screen change, Numeric display and entry with limits, Alarms: latching in the PLC, alarm list and history, Offline and online simulation, download, Lab: operator screen for the filling station
   • EPG20Delta HMI 2: trends, recipes, navigation, user levels and the full project: History sampling, trends and data files, Recipes: groups, data types, CSV, USB/SD/FTP, Staging registers and loading in S0 only, Screen map and navigation, User authority: levels, accounts, auto log-out, operation log, Integrated architecture: HMI on COM1, the G120 on the PLC's terminals, Register map and bring-up order, Lab: full Delta project with acceptance test
   • EPG21Resume and LinkedIn: the CV, the profiles and the application workflow: How a CV is read: six seconds, keywords first, ATS parsing: single column, no tables or text boxes, Competency mapping against a real job advert, PGDIA projects written as CV entries, Project portfolio and certificate pack, LinkedIn headline, skills and certificate, Naukri and Indeed profiles and job alerts, Recruiter outreach and cold email templates, Application workflow and My Applications
   • EPG22Technical interview preparation: power, starters, signals, PLC and fault-finding: Protection: MCB curves, MCCB, HRC fuse, RCCB, Type 2 coordination, Cables, transformers and CT safety, DOL and star-delta power and control drawings, Overload relay at 0.58 × FLC, Sinking and sourcing; 4 to 20 mA calculations, PID terms and VFD selection, PLC vs DCS vs SCADA, Live PLC debugging and project defence, Aptitude and company patterns, Rapid-fire round
   • EPG23HR preparation and mock interviews: introduction, HR round, recorded panels: Self-introduction: present, past, proof, future, Body language and spoken English, STAR answers, Salary, relocation, shifts and service agreements, Explaining technical work to non-engineers, Technical mock panel, recorded, HR mock, recorded, Score sheet and placement-readiness sign-off
   • EPG24Final exam and placement handover: PGT4 theory: 50 questions, 75 minutes, pass mark 75 %, Siemens practical: wire, program and an HMI screen from a written spec, Delta practical from a written spec, 10-minute viva on your own two projects, Grades: Distinction 85 %+, Merit 75 to 84 %, Pass 70 to 74 %, How interviews are arranged from Monday, Trainee duties: attend, apply to 5 a week, keep the CV current, report offers, Handover sheet