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Free HMI design courses with certificate

HMI design with Siemens WinCC and FactoryTalk View ME, free and complete: screens, tags, alarms, trends, recipes, users and high-performance design, with notes, quizzes and an optional verifiable certificate.

75 modules · 61h 11m of video · Updated 1 November 2026
Siemens TIA Portal HMI: KTP and Comfort Panels with WinCC course coverFree
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Siemens TIA Portal HMI: KTP and Comfort Panels with WinCC

Every screen a plant operator touches, built in TIA Portal: tags, buttons, symbols, numeric input, bar graphs, navigation and templates, trends, alarms, recipes, faceplates, pop-ups, users and languages.

  • Add a panel, create HMI tags and connect them to PLC tags
  • Build buttons, indicators, symbols, numeric input and bar graphs
  • Design screen navigation, templates and a modern screen layout
11 modules 5h 51mView course
HMI Design and Programming: Siemens WinCC and FactoryTalk View ME course coverFree
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HMI Design and Programming: Siemens WinCC and FactoryTalk View ME

What an HMI is and how to design one well, then two mainstream tools end to end: Siemens WinCC in TIA Portal and Rockwell FactoryTalk View Machine Edition on PanelView Plus, with WinCC flexible for the legacy base.

  • Design a high-performance HMI: grey ground, colour for abnormal, screen hierarchy
  • Build a WinCC TIA project with templates, connection, tags, screens, animation, text lists, pop-ups
  • Configure alarms, trends, recipes, users, scripts, libraries and languages in WinCC
16 modules 9h 21mView course
Weintek HMI with EasyBuilder Pro course coverFree
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Weintek HMI with EasyBuilder Pro

The HMI on thousands of machines worldwide: EasyBuilder Pro from install to macros, PLC communication, windows and objects, data sampling and trends, alarms, recipes, security, remote access, Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT and SQL, cMT with CODESYS, and the diagnostic utilities.

  • Install EBPro, build projects, download and upload by USB, SD and Ethernet
  • Connect Siemens, Modbus and other PLCs and fix 'PLC no response'
  • Configure system parameters, base, common, direct and indirect windows
14 modules 17h 12mView course
Pro-face HMI with GP-Pro EX course coverFree
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Pro-face HMI with GP-Pro EX

The Schneider/Pro-face HMI on Japanese and European machines worldwide: GP-Pro EX from first project to parts, keypads and animation, PLC drivers and Allen-Bradley data, ladder logic inside the HMI, alarms and data sampling, security and languages, transfer, web server and remote tools.

  • Start GP-Pro EX projects for GP4000 and SP5000 panels
  • Build screens with parts, switches, lamps, keypads and animation
  • Map PLC addresses, use multiple drivers and Allen-Bradley tags
10 modules 6h 29mView course
FactoryTalk Optix HMI and Edge course coverFree
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FactoryTalk Optix HMI and Edge

Rockwell's new HMI platform from the first screen to the edge: Optix Studio, communication, containers and responsive design, object-oriented graphics, aliases and UDTs, faceplates and libraries, alarms, datalogger, recipes, reports, users and languages, Micro800, Modbus, Siemens and REST drivers, MQTT and OPC UA, sizing and View SE integration.

  • Install Optix Studio and build responsive, object-oriented screens
  • Link to Logix, Micro800, Modbus and Siemens controllers
  • Use aliases, UDTs, faceplates and libraries
13 modules 9h 40mView course
Siemens WinCC Unified course coverFree
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Siemens WinCC Unified

The new Siemens HMI and SCADA from project to panel: project creation and simulation, screens, layout and navigation, tags, buttons and dynamisation, text lists and visibility, faceplates with UDTs and popups, faceplate interfaces in depth, a complete HMI build, alarms, events, trends and parameter sets, JavaScript, users, languages, certificates and the Unified Comfort Panel.

  • Create Unified projects, simulate and download securely
  • Build screens with templates, navigation and dynamisation
  • Use text lists, faceplates, UDTs and popups
11 modules 12h 37mView course

Compare the HMI courses

CourseLevelModulesVideoBrand
Siemens TIA Portal HMI: KTP and Comfort Panels with WinCCBeginner115h 51mSiemens
HMI Design and Programming: Siemens WinCC and FactoryTalk View MEBeginner169h 21mSiemens and Rockwell
Weintek HMI with EasyBuilder ProBeginner1417h 12mVendor-neutral
Pro-face HMI with GP-Pro EXBeginner106h 29mVendor-neutral
FactoryTalk Optix HMI and EdgeBeginner139h 40mAllen-Bradley
Siemens WinCC UnifiedBeginner1112h 37mSiemens

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Questions

Which HMI software does the course use?
Siemens WinCC (TIA Portal) and Rockwell FactoryTalk View ME, both with free trials and simulators.
Which HMI software do the courses use?
Siemens WinCC (Basic, Comfort and Unified), FactoryTalk View and Optix, and the free Weintek, Delta and Pro-face tools, each in the vendor trial or free edition with a runtime simulator.