As a certified Emerson and AVEVA training provider, ATR offers a selection of hands-on, instructor-led, and product-specific courses to educate you and your industrial team. Our objective is to improve your understanding and utilization of a solution throughout the entire project lifecycle, as well as tailor it to your specific business needs.
Courses vary from three to five days in duration and across a variety of products. In some cases, specialized classes may be assembled (pricing and availability will be looked at on a case by case basis). Unless otherwise noted, all courses take place at our Cincinnati facility.
In order to give our instructors enough time to prepare, registration must be completed at least one week prior to the beginning of a course.
Training courses
AVEVA
formerly Wonderware
System Platform Combo — Application Server & InTouch for System Platform
Description
The System Platform Combo class provides a fundamental understanding of the features and functionality of both InTouch for System Platform and Application Server. This course provides lectures and hands-on labs to supply and reinforce the knowledge necessary to build both a managed InTouch HMI and the ArchestrA data objects to drive the HMI using the ArchestrA tools and services in the System Platform environment.
The class will demonstrate how to use Application Server to utilize the ArchestrA technology to connect to field devices, process data, run scripts, handle alarms, and historize alarms and events. This is achieved using features and functionality such as Automation Objects, templates, instances, the ArchestrA Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and the QuickScript .NET scripting engine.
This course also provides a fundamental understanding of Galaxy maintenance, real-time alarm recording and security settings, and how to setup redundancy.
Students will learn how to use InTouch to be the ‘front-end’ of their SCADA system while Application Server is providing the ‘back-end’, or data side of the system.
This class will take pieces from each book (Application Server, and InTouch for System Platform). It is not intended to be a replacement for each of those classes. It is intended for those who have some experience in each product and would like to tie both together in a single week. The pace will be quick.
Objectives
- Create and deploy new applications using ArchestrA IDE
- Model the plant floor using automation objects
- Acquire data from field devices
- Work with alarm and history configuration in a Galaxy
- Define the security model for a Galaxy
- Configure application-level and device integration redundancy
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Microsoft Windows
- Manufacturing industry experience (recommended)
Audience
- Application developers
- Engineers
- System integrators
- Other individuals who use Application Server in their manufacturing processes
Duration: 5 days
Time: 8:30am-4:30pm
System Platform Maintenance
Class Description
The System Platform Maintenance course teaches students the essential problem-solving skills to resolve System Platform issues. The course will explain System Platform’s architecture and basic functionality, resources to reference for help, and how to work in the system to solve problems faced in the field. The standard features of the software provide a base-level understanding of the components involved, including creating a Galaxy, the plant model, redundancy, and other development processes. Students will also learn how to export and import objects, dump and load objects for mass configuration changes, and back up a Galaxy.
The subsequent portions of the course focus on connecting to field devices (PLC, RTU, remote IO module, etc) and troubleshooting this connection from the source to the object. Following the signal from the source to the destination provides a comprehensive understanding of the communications pathway. After communications are established, historizing those object attributes allows students to go back in time to see what happened, give a complete picture of the real-time data seen in the field, and determine the root cause of issues in context with process values. Lastly, the licensing and installation processes are covered for setting up a new system and transferring licensing from one system to another.
Objectives
- Edit and troubleshoot a Galaxy using ArchestrA IDE
- Understand the different Views in the IDE
- Learn how to extend objects with attributes
- Export and import objects
- Create a Galaxy backup
- Configure application-level and device integration redundancy
- TRACE THE SIGNAL to fix problems in a Galaxy
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Microsoft Windows
- Manufacturing industry experience (recommended)
Audience
- Maintenance Personnel
- Engineers
- Manufacturing IT administrators
- Other individuals who use Application Server in their manufacturing processes
Duration: 3 days
Time: 8:30am-4:30pm
InTouch HMI
Description
The tag-based InTouch HMI course explains how to create and configure a Modern InTouch application. The course provides a fundamental understanding of the AVEVA visualization module and explains how to develop a Human Machine Interface (HMI) system for your specific plant floor. You are guided through setup, layout, best practice concepts, features, and functions of the InTouch software platform. Hands-on labs reinforce concepts and features.
This HMI system will be developed using many of the InTouch HMI software features/functionality such as WindowMaker Tagnames, Animation, Cells and Symbols, SmartSymbols, Scripting, Alarms, RealTime and Historical Trending, Advanced Tag Functionality, Security, and Application Backup. In addition, this course provides introductory material about creating managed InTouch applications as well as basic information regarding ArchestrA Graphics.
Objectives
- Create a Modern InTouch Application.
- Build an HMI with Situational Awareness symbols.
- Construct a Key Performance Indicator display.
- Configure an OI Server.
- Establish communications with I/O-aware programs.
- Create, export, and import tags.
- Test and monitor tags.
- Build a custom symbol.
- Visualize and interact with data.
- Configure InTouch alarms.
- Present and manage live and historical alarms.
- Configure security.
- Historize and trend data.
- Display real-time data.
- Back up and restore an InTouch application.
- Distribute an application to a production environment.
- View ArchestrA graphics in a browser using Web Client.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Microsoft Windows
- Manufacturing industry experience (recommended)
Audience
- Individuals who need to configure or modify InTouch HMI applications
Time: 8:30am – 4:30pm
System Platform — Application Server
Description
The System Platform — Application Server course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of the features and functionality of AVEVA Application Server. This course provides lectures and hands-on labs to supply and reinforce the knowledge necessary to use the ArchestrA tools and services in the System Platform for plant modeling.
The class will demonstrate how to use Application Server to utilize the ArchestrA technology to connect to field devices, process data, run scripts, handle alarms, and historize alarms and events. This is achieved using features and functionality such as Automation Objects, templates, instances, the ArchestrA Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and the QuickScript .NET scripting engine.
This course also provides a fundamental understanding of Galaxy maintenance, real-time alarm recording and security settings, and how to setup redundancy.
Objectives
- Create and deploy new applications using ArchestrA IDE
- Model the plant floor using automation objects
- Acquire data from field devices
- Work with alarm and history configuration in a Galaxy
- Define the security model for a Galaxy
- Configure application-level and device integration redundancy
Prerequisites
- Manufacturing industry experience
Audience
- Application developers
- Engineers
- System integrators
- Any individuals who use Application Server in their manufacturing processes
Time: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Historian
Description
The Historian course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of the features and functionality of Historian Server for System Platform and InTouch tag-based applications, as well as the Historian Client suite of tools. This course provides lectures and hands-on labs to supply and reinforce the knowledge necessary to use Historian Server. The class will demonstrate how to use Historian Server for SCADA and factory data from both Application Server and InTouch tag-based applications. This includes how to configure, historize, and retrieve data using multiple retrieval modes, local and remote summarization, replication, event monitoring, and other features.
Objectives
- Historize data from Application Server
- Historize InTouch and I/O server data points
- Distinguish between multiple retrieval modes
- Retrieve data using time-domain extensions
- Configure Historian Server tags for local summarization
- Use a Tier-2 Historian for replication and summarization
- Import, update, and insert history data
- Create and configure events
- Manage and maintain historical data
- Retrieve Historian data with the help of Historian Client
- Use the data in its appropriate context, including historical and real-time trend manipulation, and production-related reporting within Microsoft Excel and Word
Prerequisites
- Completion of an InTouch or Application Server course
- Experience in manufacturing industry
- Experience with Microsoft Excel and Word
- Some knowledge of Transact-SQL is helpful
Audience
- Application developers and engineers
- System integrators
- Any individual who needs to historize, analyze, or maintain data from AVEVA Applications
- Any individual who uses Historian data for assessment and reporting within production or administrative environments
Duration: 3 days
Time: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Dream Report
Description
The Dream Report course is designed to provide students with a fundamental understanding of Dream ReportT reporting software. Dream Report is the leading programming-free, user-friendly reporting solution specifically for industrial automation. It was designed to be the simplest solution to extract data from almost any control system (PLC’s, HMI’s, standard protocols), process Historians, and open databases, and automatically provides reports to anybody, anywhere.
Objectives
- Configure the Dream Report to extract data from almost any data source
- Design and create reports
- Automatically generate and distribute the reports
- Utilize Dream Report’s productivity and data archiving tools
- Design web forms for manual (operator) data entry
- Interact with the reports through the DRWeb portal
Audience
- End-users
- System integrators
- Engineers
- Any individual who needs to configure and use Dream Report for plant and process reporting applications
Time: 8:30am-4:30pm
Emerson PLC
formerly GE PLC
PAC Machine Edition — Controller Logic Developer Programming
Description
The PAC Machine Edition — Controller Logic Developer Programming course will teach users to program for PACSystems, 90/70, 90/30, and VersaMax controllers featuring the PACSystems RX3i Controller. This class covers programming techniques and the advanced features of the PACSystems Controller using Logic Developer PLC Machine Edition software. Starting with the controller software architecture, students are taught how to effectively develop control applications using building block concepts.
This course builds upon Object-Oriented concepts with PACSystems User-Defined Function Blocks (UDFBs), as well as the development of application components using Ladder Diagram (LD) and Function Block Diagram (FBD) programming languages.
Objectives
- Describe Control System Architecture & Operational Fundamentals
- Operate Proficy Machine Edition
- Establish and Utilize Communications to the Controller
- Expand Controllers and Describe Specialty Modules
- Effectively use and create PACSystems Variables
- Create Projects in Ladder Diagram (LD) and Function Block Diagram (FBD)
- Understand and program Arithmetic, Timer, Counter, and Move operations
- Utilize programming guidelines for developing robust control applications
- Use User Defined Function Blocks (UDFBs) to build structured applications
- Effectively use the Machine Edition Tool chest as a repository for Application Building Blocks
- Create, Monitor, and Modify running PACSystems applications
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of electrical/control fundamentals
- Comfort operating in a Microsoft Windows environment
Audience
- Any individual involved in the development, modification, and troubleshooting of control systems using Proficy Logic Developer PLC and PACSystems Controllers
Time: 8:00am – 5:00pm (8:00 – 4:00 for virtual)
PACSystems Controller Maintenance using PAC Machine Edition
Description
The PACSystems Controller Maintenance using PAC Machine Edition course provides students with the skills necessary to troubleshoot and repair faults in Emerson programmable logic controllers (90-30, 90-70, VersaMax, RX7i and RX3i). The class is taught using Logic Developer PLC software, which is part of the Machine Edition family of products. The focus is on interpreting existing ladder logic programs for troubleshooting purposes. Students are also taught how to use the troubleshooting tools within the software to determine where faults have occurred and how to correct them.
Objectives
- Define the function of each hardware component of Emerson PLC systems
- Describe the Machine Edition software environment
- Configure and establish communication to the Emerson PLC hardware
- Configure Emerson PLC hardware using Logic Developer PLC software
- Define the instruction set(s) for Emerson PLCs
- Modify existing ladder logic in Emerson PLCs
- Interpret existing ladder logic for troubleshooting purposes
- Research hardware and software information in Infolink
- Access and interpret controller and I/O fault tables
- Use troubleshooting tools within Logic Developer PLC software
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of electrical/control fundamentals
- Comfort operating in a Microsoft Windows environment
Audience
- Electrical technicians, electricians, engineers beginning to work with Logic Developer PLC and will be tasked with modifying and maintaining PLC programs and hardware
- Any individuals who will be troubleshooting Emerson PLC control systems using Proficy Logic Developer PLC software
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (8:00 – 4:00 virtual)
PAC Machine Edition — Operator Interface Programming QuickPanel & View
Description
The Operator Interface Programming – QuickPanel & View course familiarizes the student with operating in the Proficy View Machine Edition development environment, the QuickPanel+ machine-level operator interface, creating operator interface graphical panels, writing scripts, configuring alarm & logging schemes, and running Projects on the operator interface device. Students are also introduced to the built-in Data Historian, Web Publishing, and Web Documents. An experienced instructor guides the student using demonstrations and hands-on lab exercises.
Objectives
- Describe the basic functions and benefits of a machine-level operator interface
- Identify and navigate the various components of the Machine Edition Development Environment
- Create, open, and modify Proficy View Operator Interface Projects using the various Machine Edition tools
- Utilize the Panel Editor and drawing tools to generate, animate, and control OI graphical Panels
- Create Application, Panel, and Button Scripts, utilizing help tools to find commands, keywords, and functions
- Configure Alarm Groups
- Log and analyze data
- Configure security for users and access the advanced features of the View Runtime
- Configure information for Web Access using Web Publishing
- Create Custom Web documents for access by remote clients
- Configure the View Historian Collector to archive device data
- Download Operator Interface Applications to the QuickPanel+ operator interface
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of electrical/control fundamentals
- Comfort operating in a Microsoft Windows environment
Audience
- Programmers, operators, and application designers who are beginning to work with the QuickPanel+ Operator Interface that is programmed using Proficy View
- Any individual tasked with developing, modifying, and maintaining Operator Interface applications
Time: 8:00am-5:00pm (8:00 – 4:00 virtual)