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Every PLC programming course on EDWartens, free: Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Mitsubishi, Omron, Schneider, Delta, ABB, Beckhoff and CODESYS, all complete, with notes, quizzes and an optional verifiable certificate.
From zero electrical knowledge to a working, simulated S7-1200 program, for nothing.
The first three hours of the Siemens TIA Portal course, cut to end on a win: what a PLC is, how it is wired, a project configured in TIA Portal, and your first ladder program running in simulation. Finish it in an evening or two, earn a certificate, and carry straight on into the full course.
One machine, start to finish. Take a bottle filling line from a written specification and an I/O list to a structured S7-1200 program with a fill station, a capper, a reject sorter and an operator screen with alarms, then test it against a written record and archive it for hand-over. The lessons are the reference; the machine is yours, and it is what you submit.
Every S7-1200 instruction, one short video at a time: bits, edges, timers, counters, comparators, maths, MOVE, conversion, analog scaling, jumps and shift registers.
What the S7-1500 does between your rungs: OB1 and the cycle, OB100 at startup, time-delay, cyclic and hardware interrupts, the error OBs that keep a CPU out of STOP, time of day, and every timer the instruction tree offers.
The site-engineer half of TIA Portal: getting the software, configuring hardware, sizing I/O and power with the selection tool, PLCSIM including the V20 sequences and hardware events, download, upload, backups, firmware, resets, cross references, traces, web server and program protection.
Nine machines you can see moving: connect Factory I/O to TIA Portal, then program conveyors, sorting and separating stations, a filling tank, a queue, an assembler, pick and place, a converge station, an elevator, a warehouse and an analog tank, all with your own ladder.
How professionals lay out a TIA Portal project so it is still readable in five years: modular blocks, FBs and instances, UDTs for I/O, arrays and shift registers, a structured drive block, and two live workshops that clean up real messy programs.
The classic Siemens PLC, from an empty SIMATIC Manager project to a commissioned, diagnosed, running machine.
CompactLogix and ControlLogix from the wiring up: tags, instructions, timers, data, drives, messaging and Modbus, in Rockwell's Studio 5000.
The MicroLogix and SLC 500 on real hardware: file-based addressing, every instruction group, analog scaling, faults and forces, in RSLogix 500.
The Mitsubishi FX family instruction by instruction: devices, contacts, timers, counters, data, analog and high-speed counting in GX Works2, with a look ahead to GX Works3.
Omron from first principles: automation, the PLC, CX-Programmer, every instruction family, and the worked programs that make it stick.
The Modicon M221 from the first download to a hundred solved ladder problems, with the official Schneider how-tos for the tooling.
Delta from the memory map to Modbus: instructions, timers, counters, analog, PID, high-speed counters, PLC Link and an HMI, with Factory I/O projects throughout.
The vendor-neutral PLC platform: ladder, function blocks, structured text, CFC and SFC, with Factory I/O projects and a visualization at the end.
Beyond the basics: block design, optimized DBs, UDTs, S7-GRAPH, SCL, drives, libraries, software units, multiuser, testing tools and worked projects on the S7-1500.
The AC500 family and Automation Builder (CODESYS-based): first project, ladder, latching, interlocks, timers, counters, retentive data, PROFIBUS and PROFINET, visualization, CP600 HMI and platform features.
PC-based control with TwinCAT 3 and EtherCAT: installation, tasks, structured text, function blocks and interfaces, I/O, libraries, version control, ADS, test-driven development, visualization and real machine applications.
The LOGO! logic module from unboxing to analog, clocks, display, comms and worked applications in LOGO!Soft Comfort, plus the S7-200 SMART basics in STEP 7-MicroWIN SMART.
The Micro820/850 from wiring to motion: CCW, the simulator, bit logic, timers, counters, analog, UDFBs, high-speed counters, PTO motion, PowerFlex and Logix messaging, Modbus TCP, PID, and migration from MicroLogix.
The large Schneider PLCs: Control Expert from install to hot standby, M340 and M580 hardware, ladder, FBD, ST and DFBs, analog and HART, Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP with DTMs, OPC UA and OFS, SCADA integration, IEC 61850 and DNP3, safety outputs, diagnostics and migration.
A real PLC for the price of a microcontroller: OpenPLC Editor and Runtime, ladder from contacts to arithmetic, timers and counters, two dozen worked programs, Arduino, ESP32 and Raspberry Pi hardware, Modbus, MQTT, Python, ScadaBR and Fuxa HMIs, Factory I/O projects, and the FOSSEE OpenPLC from IIT Bombay.
The Korean PLC used by OEMs across Asia and the Americas: XGB hardware, XG5000 from first project to online editing, ladder, ST, SFC and IL, timers, counters and analog, Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP, remote I/O, and XG-PM motion with pulse train and EtherCAT.
The Japanese PLC inside inspection, packaging and electronics machines: KV STUDIO from addressing and ladder entry to timers, counters, data instructions, debugging by rewinding time, structured text, VT STUDIO HMI, analog, PROTOCOL STUDIO, Modbus RTU drives, EtherNet/IP, servo and stepper control and PC integration.
The smart relay for small machines, HVAC, pumps and cold rooms: easyE4 hardware, easySoft in LD, FBD, ST and EDP, system settings, Ethernet, function blocks, user function blocks, PID and PWM, touch displays, SmartWire-DT, Modbus RTU, MQTT and AWS, and the data logger.
The Taiwanese value PLC on Asian-built packaging and textile machines: WinProladder install and wiring, addressing and memory, contacts, coils, set/reset, retentive memory, timers, counters, math and compare, upload, download, simulation and industrial practice problems.
Omron's modern platform end to end: NX1P and NJ controllers, Sysmac Studio, variables and tasks, EtherCAT and I/O, analog and IO-Link, networking, HMI, advanced programming, 1S servos and camming, NX Safety and CIP Safety, SQL and recipes, backups and maintenance, with Omron's own five training sessions built in.
The current Mitsubishi platform: GX Works3, iQ-R and FX5U hardware, communication and setup, I/O and CC-Link cards, the ladder editor with labels, sequence basics with the GOT simulator, timers, counters, data moves, index registers, arithmetic, CC-Link IE Field, built-in functions, MELSOFT Navigator and Mitsubishi's e-learning.
From ladder to text on the S7-1200 and S7-1500: setting up the controller, tags and monitoring, data types, maths and data blocks, FCs, FBs, timers, counters and diagnostics, an eight-part SCL worked example, loops with FOR, WHILE, REPEAT, CONTINUE and EXIT, and a time-sliced part counter application.
The plcprofessor advanced manual, module by module: Logix architecture and quick starts, memory and aliases, tasks, programs and routines, universal I/O and conveyor code, GSV and processor changes, communication modules and remote I/O, data types and analog, ladder, FBD and structured text, sequential function charts, motion, Add-On Instructions, CIP messaging, and the emulator.