EPGDIA Self-Paced: Industrial Automation Diploma, online at your own pace

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   Learn at your pace

   24 video lessons, open from day one, with an AI tutor in every lesson.

2. 2

   Practise in the lab

   In the vendors' simulators on your computer, and in the free 3D lab.

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   Build the projects

   Four plant projects, each graded by an EDWartens engineer.

4. 4

   Get certified

   Weekly tests and the final theory paper; the certificate issues automatically.

5. 5

   Get job support in India

   After the final, interviews arranged until your offer letter.

1. 1Arrive at the workplaceIndrayani Controls, a systems integrator in Chakan, Pune, building PET bottling line 2 for a beverage plant.
2. 2Read the morning email and ticketsThe day's work arrives by email, tickets and permits; ask a colleague when you are stuck.
3. 3Do the workWrite the I/O list, program a bottling line, run the factory acceptance test and handle a change request.
4. 4Follow the site's safety rulesRead the site rules, then work to them: India's own rules and standards (CEA 2023, IS/IEC, 415 V supplies, FSSAI).
5. 5Get a debriefAfter each shift, a debrief on what you did well and what to change.

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   1Arrive at the workplaceIndrayani Controls, a systems integrator in Chakan, Pune, building PET bottling line 2 for a beverage plant.
2. 
   2Read the morning email and ticketsThe day's work arrives by email, tickets and permits; ask a colleague when you are stuck.
3. 
   3Do the workWrite the I/O list, program a bottling line, run the factory acceptance test and handle a change request.
4. 
   4Follow the site's safety rulesRead the site rules, then work to them: India's own rules and standards (CEA 2023, IS/IEC, 415 V supplies, FSSAI).
5. 
   5Get a debriefAfter each shift, a debrief on what you did well and what to change.

Swipe for all 5 steps.

• Stories for your interviews

  Tell an interviewer about the work you planned, the calls you made and what you handed in.

• Confidence on day one

  Emails, tickets, permits and deadlines will not be new on your first morning at work.

• The Indian workplace

  Indian companies, cities, standards and rupees, as you will meet them.

Four simulations on this course

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  PLC Programmer

  Indrayani Controls, a systems integrator in Chakan, Pune, building PET bottling line 2 for a beverage plant

  Write the I/O list, program a bottling line, run the factory acceptance test and handle a change request.

  Best after week 1 (Siemens PLC)

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  Maintenance Electrical Engineer

  The in-house maintenance team of a biscuit plant in an industrial estate near Pune

  Work orders, safe isolation under a permit, fault finding and a root-cause report.

  Best after week 2

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  SCADA and HMI Engineer

  Arkavathy Systems, a SCADA integrator in Peenya, Bengaluru, on a town's water treatment plant

  Build the tag list, alarm list and operator screens for a running water treatment plant.

  Best after week 3 (SCADA)

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  Commissioning Engineer

  Palar Commissioning Services in Sriperumbudur, commissioning a dairy's milk reception skid

  Loop checks, I/O checkout, the site acceptance test and a punch list on a plant that is nearly ready.

  Best in week 4 or after the final

You open them from your student portal, on sim.edwartens.com, from the day you enrol. Finish one with a score of 60 or more for a Certificate of Completion (Job Simulation). Optional practice: the companies are fictional, the places and the rules are real.

1. Week 1Siemens PLC foundations6 video lessons, 17 self-study modules (22 h), project 1; weekly test 1

   • SPG1Siemens 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
   • SPG2Siemens 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
   • SPG3Siemens 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
   • SPG4Siemens 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
   • SPG5Siemens PLC 5: program structure with OBs, FCs, FBs and DBs: OB1 and the cycle time, OB100 startup, OB30 cyclic interrupt, FC vs FB
   • SPG6Siemens 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
2. Week 2Siemens advanced PLC and HMI6 video lessons, 20 self-study modules (24 h), project 2; weekly test 2

   • SPG7Siemens PLC 7: SCL and sequences as state machines: SCL syntax: := and =, # and quotes, IF, ELSIF, ELSE, CASE with ELSE, FOR loops over arrays
   • SPG8Siemens 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
   • SPG9Siemens 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
   • SPG10Siemens 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
   • SPG11Siemens 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
   • SPG12Siemens 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
3. Week 3Siemens SCADA and Delta PLC6 video lessons, 21 self-study modules (26 h), project 3; weekly test 3

   • SPG13Siemens 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
   • SPG14Siemens 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
   • SPG15Delta 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
   • SPG16Delta 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
   • SPG17Delta 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
   • SPG18Delta 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
4. Week 4Delta HMI, career preparation and final exam6 video lessons, 17 self-study modules (24 h), project 4; the final theory paper

   • SPG19Delta 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
   • SPG20Delta 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
   • SPG21Resume 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, EPGDIA projects written as CV entries
   • SPG22Technical 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
   • SPG23HR 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
   • SPG24Final exam and placement handover: the final theory paper, 50 questions in 75 minutes, 75% to pass

The self-paced EPGDIA is an EDWartens course and its certificate is an EDWartens credential. It is not a university degree, and it is not a UGC- or AICTE-recognised qualification or a vendor certification.