Industrial Maintenance & Automation Upskilling

C-207 Programmable Controller Systems 1 Course Outline

Prepares individuals to program, configuration, adjust, monitor, and operate industrial programmable logic controller (PLC) systems.

Key skills include:

1. adhering to PLC safety rules
2. performing normal startup/shutdown
3. operating PLC in different modes
4. performing emergency shutdown and reset
5. monitoring for proper operation through indicators and PC-based PLC software
6. configuring processor software drivers for communication to PC
7. configuring and loading of HMI programs
8. operating HMI with PLC
9. configuring PLC discrete I/O
10. transferring programs between PC and PLC processor
11. interpreting basic and intermediate level PLC ladder logic programs (with contacts, coils, timers, counters, math, comparison instructions)
12. PLC project creation/editing
13. and interpreting common PLC program logic applications using electro-pneumatic actuators and on/off motor control systems.