Power BI for Manufacturing: OEE and Production Dashboards

Yes. All twelve modules, the practice tasks, the notes and the assessments are free. You create an account so your progress is saved and the final assessment can be marked. The certificate is the only paid item, and only if you want one.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you have finished every module and passed the final at 60 percent, with a verification code anyone can check. It is not a Microsoft credential and is never described as one.

Chandoo and Learn Skills Daily, on their own YouTube channels, credited at the foot of the course page. EDWartens did not make the videos and neither creator is affiliated with EDWartens. What EDWartens wrote is the study plan, the notes, the OEE material, the practice tasks and the assessments.

No. Power BI Desktop is a free download from Microsoft and every module can be completed on it. Note that Desktop runs on Windows only, so a Mac needs Windows in a virtual machine. Publishing and sharing through the Power BI service needs a licence, which your employer usually already holds inside its Microsoft 365 tenant.

No. PL-300 is Microsoft's paid exam and this course is neither that exam nor a substitute for it. It is preparation and practice: it covers Power Query, modelling, DAX and report design on manufacturing data, which is the same ground, but the certificate you receive is an EDWartens Certificate of Completion.

No. This is the no-code route. If you can build a pivot table in Excel you have enough. The SQL and Python courses in the track sit beside this one, not before it.

That is the normal starting point. The practice tasks are written for one machine and one shift on paper, so you can work through the whole course with a downtime register and a production log. The course also covers what to do when the reason codes are free text, which is the usual problem.

Automation, maintenance, quality and production engineers who currently report in Excel, and anyone who has been asked to put the daily production numbers on a screen. The engineer who builds the OEE dashboard tends to become the one who presents it in the morning meeting.

Yes. Learning costs ₹0 in India: every module, the written notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment, with no card and no trial period. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, ₹499 including GST for this beginner course, paid in rupees through Razorpay, and only if you want it after passing the final assessment.