Which SCADA should I learn first?

Ignition if you want the modern platform with a free trial; WinCC if your plants are Siemens; InTouch and Citect for the large installed base in utilities and process.

Is there a free SCADA course with certificate?

Yes. All four courses are free and complete; the EDWartens certificate is optional and verifiable.

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Free SCADA courses with certificate

InTouch, Ignition, WinCC and Citect, free and complete: tags, graphics, alarms, trends, history, scripting, clients and deployment, with notes, quizzes and an optional verifiable certificate.

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7 courses · 90 modules · 80h 49m of video · Updated 27 September 2026

FreeSCADABeginner

Ignition SCADA by Inductive Automation

The modern SCADA platform: gateway, tags, device connections, Designer screens, alarms, SQL history, reporting, MQTT and IIoT, Perspective, and deployment from edge to cloud.

Explain the platform, licensing, architectures and editions
Install the gateway, set it up and back it up
Create, scale and diagnose tags with quality overlays

13 modules 7h 37mView course

FreeSCADAIntermediate

Siemens WinCC SCADA: V7, Unified and Advanced

Siemens SCADA end to end: WinCC V7/V8 from project to client-server and SQL, WinCC Unified with JavaScript, faceplates, plant objects and collaboration, and WinCC Advanced/flexible practice with alarms, trends, recipes and PLC interfacing.

Place WinCC V7/V8, Unified and Advanced/flexible and choose between them
Build a V7 project: drivers, tags, structure tags, screens, navigation, animation, faceplates, VBS
Configure alarms, tag logging, trends, reports, users and runtime security

15 modules 19h 6mView course

FreeSCADABeginner

Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADA

The SCADA behind Indian water, power and mining plants: install, project structure, device communication, variables, equipment, graphics, buttons and animation, genies and super genies, alarms, events, menus and Cicode.

Install Plant SCADA, create, back up and restore projects
Explain clusters and the I/O, alarm, trend and report servers and build page templates
Connect Modbus TCP, Modbus serial, OPC DA and a Modicon M340

11 modules 5h 59mView course

FreeSCADAIntermediate

FactoryTalk View Site Edition SCADA

Rockwell's plant SCADA: applications and clients, displays and navigation, Logix tag references, global objects, FactoryTalk Alarms and Events, TrendPro, data logging and databases, RecipePro+, security and e-signatures, VBA, ViewPoint, backup and migration.

Create local, network station and network distributed applications and clients
Build displays, objects, animation and navigation menus
Reference Logix controllers via Linx and OPC UA; use direct, client and extended tags

11 modules 10h 41mView course

FreeSCADABeginner

Wonderware InTouch SCADA

Build a working plant screen, tags, animation, alarms, trends and a live PLC link, on the SCADA still running on most Indian plant floors.

Build an InTouch tag database that will not fall over at 500 tags
Draw a plant mimic and animate it from live process values
Take safe operator input without letting a typo reach the plant

11 modules 14h 32mView course

FreeSCADAIntermediate

Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Automation

How drinking water, wastewater and desalination plants are measured and controlled: the process trains, level, flow and water quality instruments, pump station duty and standby logic, VFDs and pump protection, coagulant and chlorine dosing, filter backwash sequences, RO train control, dissolved oxygen and blower control, SCADA, telemetry and alarms, cybersecurity and compliance data, ending with a pump station control narrative.

Draw water, wastewater and RO process trains with their instruments and control loops
Choose level, open channel flow and water quality instruments, scale signals and allow for sample lag
Set wet well levels and write duty, assist, standby, alternation and fail-over logic

14 modules 13h 23mView course

FreeData and analyticsBeginner

SQL for PLC and SCADA Engineers

A first database for engineers who already read tags: what a relational database holds and how it differs from a CSV export, installing MySQL or SQL Server and connecting a client, tables, data types, keys and constraints, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE, SELECT with filters, sorting, limits and calculated columns, aggregates and GROUP BY, string, date and number functions, the whole join family, UNION and temporary tables, subqueries, EXISTS and views, and normalisation up to third normal form. The video lessons teach standard SQL; the plant framing, the practice tasks and the assessments are written by EDWartens.

Install MySQL or SQL Server, connect a client, and read a refused connection for whether the server, the port or the password is wrong
Create tables with the right data types, primary keys and constraints, and predict which INSERT a constraint will reject
Insert, update and delete rows safely, running the SELECT first so you know how many rows will change

15 modules 9h 31mView course

Compare the SCADA courses

Course	Level	Modules	Video	Brand
Ignition SCADA by Inductive Automation	Beginner	13	7h 37m	Inductive Automation
Siemens WinCC SCADA: V7, Unified and Advanced	Intermediate	15	19h 6m	Siemens
Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADA	Beginner	11	5h 59m	AVEVA
FactoryTalk View Site Edition SCADA	Intermediate	11	10h 41m	Allen-Bradley
Wonderware InTouch SCADA	Beginner	11	14h 32m	AVEVA
Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Automation	Intermediate	14	13h 23m	Vendor-neutral
SQL for PLC and SCADA Engineers	Beginner	15	9h 31m	Vendor-neutral

Why learn SCADA in India

SCADA engineers are hired by water boards, power utilities, pharma and system integrators across India, and these four platforms cover most of the installed base plus the modern Ignition stack.

Questions

Which SCADA should I learn first?: Ignition if you want the modern platform with a free trial; WinCC if your plants are Siemens; InTouch and Citect for the large installed base in utilities and process.
Is there a free SCADA course with certificate?: Yes. All four courses are free and complete; the EDWartens certificate is optional and verifiable.

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