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Complete courses in PLC programming, SCADA, HMI, drives, instrumentation, robotics, safety, industrial IoT, OT cybersecurity, fluid power, motor control, electrical and power-system design, CAD and BIM, lighting, building automation, control theory, and now AI and machine learning for engineers, with real plant projects: video lessons, written notes, practice problems, assessments and engineer support. Not a sample, not a lead magnet. The whole course, for nothing, with an optional verifiable certificate.
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Free Siemens TIA Portal course for beginners: write ladder logic for a simulated S7-1200 and WinCC HMI. Learning is free; the certificate is optional and paid.
Siemens
Certificate optional
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Free beginner instrumentation course: sensors, 4-20 mA loops, control valves, P&IDs and calibration. Learning is free; the certificate is optional and paid.
Vendor-neutral
Certificate optional
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Free electrical design course for engineers: estimate loads, size cables and breakers, draw single-line diagrams. The certificate is optional and paid.
Vendor-neutral
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Free BMS course for engineers moving into buildings: HVAC control, BACnet, point lists, commissioning. Learning is free; the certificate is optional and paid.
Vendor-neutral
Certificate optional
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Free AutoCAD Electrical course for beginners: draw control schematics, PLC I/O, panels and reports. Learning is free; the certificate is optional and paid.
Autodesk
Certificate optional
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Free ETAP course for electrical engineers: load flow, short circuit, protection and arc flash studies. Learning is free; the certificate is optional and paid.
ETAP
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Free beginner motor control course: read ladder diagrams, wire starters, build reversing and braking circuits. The certificate is optional and paid.
Vendor-neutral
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Free OT security course for automation and IT staff: Purdue zones, ISA/IEC 62443 security levels, risk assessment. The certificate is optional and paid.
Vendor-neutral
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Free course for electrical beginners: read PLC wiring diagrams, then build, cool and test a UL 508A control panel. The certificate is optional and paid.
Vendor-neutral
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Every network a PLC engineer meets, from RS-485 and Modbus to PROFINET, EtherNet/IP and OPC UA, with hands-on PLC-to-PLC and Modbus configuration in TIA Portal.
Vendor-neutral
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Free EPLAN Electric P8 course for electrical designers: projects, terminals, PLC I/O, reports and Pro Panel 3D layouts. The certificate is optional and paid.
EPLAN
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Free AutoCAD course for beginners: draw, edit, dimension and plot 2D drawings, then model basic 3D parts. The certificate is optional and paid.
Autodesk
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Learning paths
A path puts free courses in a sensible order for one role. You start with the first course; the next is added when you are halfway through the one you are on.
a Siemens PLC engineer
For electrical, electronics and instrumentation students and technicians who want to work on the Siemens controllers many plants run.
13 courses · 115h 36m of video
a Rockwell (Allen-Bradley) PLC engineer
For learners who expect to meet Allen-Bradley controllers, old and new, in a plant or a service role.
5 courses · 48h 15m of video
a maintenance or junior controls engineer
For anyone starting in industrial automation who wants the four things a plant floor shows on day one.
4 courses · 40h 58m of video
a SCADA engineer
For learners who want to build the supervisory screens and data systems that sit above the PLCs.
4 courses · 41h 53m of video
a process control and instrumentation engineer
For learners heading to process plants, water works or pharma lines, where measuring and controlling flow, level and temperature is the job.
4 courses · 31h 33m of video
an industrial robot programmer
For learners who want to program the robot brands common on automotive and electronics lines.
7 courses · 75h 56m of video
a PLC programmer for machine builders
For learners who expect to work on packaging, textile, plastics or food machines with compact controllers.
4 courses · 40h 43m of video
a PLC programmer using IEC 61131 languages
For learners who want one set of languages that works across many PLC brands, including PC-based control.
3 courses · 37h 20m of video
an electrical or controls technician
For beginners who want the base before the PLC: basic electricity, motor control, air and oil power, and the panel that holds it all.
4 courses · 59h 18m of video
an electrical design engineer
For learners who want to draw the schematics that panel builders and installers work from.
4 courses · 45h 43m of video
a power systems and electrical design engineer
For electrical students who want to size loads and cables, and study how a power system behaves.
3 courses · 59h 50m of video
a building services (MEP) engineer
For learners heading to consultants and contractors who design the electrical and lighting side of buildings.
4 courses · 66h 11m of video
a mechanical or product CAD designer
For learners who want to draw parts, machines and products in 2D and 3D.
3 courses · 54h 39m of video
an industrial IoT and OT security engineer
For learners who want to connect plants to data systems, and keep them safe once connected.
3 courses · 67h 58m of video
a control systems engineer
For engineering students who want the theory behind control and a route from it to real equipment.
4 courses · 34h 32m of video
a PLC programmer for Omron and Mitsubishi systems
For learners who expect to meet Omron or Mitsubishi controllers in packaging, textile and automotive machines.
4 courses · 35h 25m of video
an engineer who can use AI on everyday work
For engineers and students with no coding background who want to use AI tools sensibly.
4 courses · 47h 16m of video
an applied AI engineer
For learners with some Python who want to build machine learning, vision, deep learning and chatbot projects.
4 courses · 59h 8m of video
an industrial AI engineer
For automation engineers and students who want to bring AI to machines, sensors and plant data.
4 courses · 32h 21m of video
The design office and site toolkit: ETABS and SAFE for concrete buildings, STAAD.Pro for frames and steel sheds, quantity surveying from drawings to the final account, site QA/QC for concrete, steel and earthworks, and a programme in Microsoft Project.
5 courses · 56h 53m of video
The quality system and the core tools a car parts supplier is asked for: ISO 9001, SPC and MSA, AIAG-VDA FMEA, APQP with the Control Plan and PPAP, and IATF 16949 internal auditing.
5 courses · 38h 33m of video
From Green Belt to Black Belt: DMAIC and the basic tools, Lean with OEE and TPM, then hypothesis tests, regression and designed experiments for the projects a Black Belt leads.
3 courses · 35h 30m of video
Technical work is judged on what you can do: wiring, commissioning, finding a fault. Doing a task yourself teaches more than watching it a second time, and a lab lets you try it safely before you meet real equipment. It does not replace working on real hardware.
New · AI for engineers
Python on engineering data, how language models actually work, prompting for FAT reports and I/O lists, AI agents with n8n, machine learning, computer vision, deep learning and RAG chatbots. Then the industrial track: where AI sits beside your PLC, predictive maintenance on real run-to-failure data, machine vision inspection with YOLO, and plant data over Modbus and OPC UA. Every project has a dataset, runs in a free Colab notebook on free models, and is marked against a rubric within a minute of submitting.
Straight answers, because the search results for free PLC training are full of samples dressed up as courses.
The same student portal our paid trainees use, not a stripped-down viewer.
Every module has a paged booklet with diagrams, worked practice problems and quick checks you answer as you read.
Stuck on a module? The Ask-your-trainer panel reaches the same engineers who teach the paid programme.
Finish the course and pass the final assessment, and a verifiable certificate is US$23.99 for a beginner course. The course itself stays free.
CV builder, public job listings and the LADX skills tracker come with the free account.
An email address. No card, ever.
Video, notes, worked problems and a practice task in each.
It unlocks once every module is complete.
Optional, US$23.99 for a beginner course, verifiable by code.
Taking several courses? A certificate pass covers every certificate you earn for 30 days or a year. Practise with mock exams. For colleges and employers: team licences with a progress dashboard.
About the video lessons. Lessons stream from their creators' own YouTube channels. EDWartens does not host or sell that footage, and the creators are not affiliated with EDWartens. The study plans, notes, practice problems and assessments are original EDWartens material.