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Free SCADA courses with certificate

InTouch, Ignition, WinCC and Citect, free and complete: tags, graphics, alarms, trends, history, scripting, clients and deployment, with notes, quizzes and an optional verifiable certificate.

90 modules · 71h 55m of video · Updated 1 November 2026
Ignition SCADA by Inductive Automation course coverFree
FreeSCADABeginner

Ignition SCADA by Inductive Automation

The modern SCADA platform: gateway, tags, device connections, Designer screens, alarms, SQL history, reporting, MQTT and IIoT, Perspective, and deployment from edge to cloud.

  • Explain the platform, licensing, architectures and editions
  • Install the gateway, set it up and back it up
  • Create, scale and diagnose tags with quality overlays
13 modules 7h 21mView course
Siemens WinCC SCADA: V7, Unified and Advanced course coverFree
FreeSCADAIntermediate

Siemens WinCC SCADA: V7, Unified and Advanced

Siemens SCADA end to end: WinCC V7/V8 from project to client-server and SQL, WinCC Unified with JavaScript, faceplates, plant objects and collaboration, and WinCC Advanced/flexible practice with alarms, trends, recipes and PLC interfacing.

  • Place WinCC V7/V8, Unified and Advanced/flexible and choose between them
  • Build a V7 project: drivers, tags, structure tags, screens, navigation, animation, faceplates, VBS
  • Configure alarms, tag logging, trends, reports, users and runtime security
15 modules 16h 5mView course
Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADA course coverFree
FreeSCADABeginner

Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADA

The SCADA behind mining, water and power plants from Australia to Africa: install, project structure, device communication, variables, equipment, graphics, buttons and animation, genies and super genies, alarms, events, menus and Cicode.

  • Install Plant SCADA, create, back up and restore projects
  • Explain clusters and the I/O, alarm, trend and report servers and build page templates
  • Connect Modbus TCP, Modbus serial, OPC DA and a Modicon M340
11 modules 4h 52mView course
FactoryTalk View Site Edition SCADA course coverFree
FreeSCADAIntermediate

FactoryTalk View Site Edition SCADA

Rockwell's plant SCADA: applications and clients, displays and navigation, Logix tag references, global objects, FactoryTalk Alarms and Events, TrendPro, data logging and databases, RecipePro+, security and e-signatures, VBA, ViewPoint, backup and migration.

  • Create local, network station and network distributed applications and clients
  • Build displays, objects, animation and navigation menus
  • Reference Logix controllers via Linx and OPC UA; use direct, client and extended tags
11 modules 8h 31mView course
Wonderware InTouch SCADA course coverFree
FreeSCADABeginner

Wonderware InTouch SCADA

Build a working plant screen, tags, animation, alarms, trends and a live PLC link, on one of the most widely installed SCADA packages worldwide.

  • Build an InTouch tag database that will not fall over at 500 tags
  • Draw a plant mimic and animate it from live process values
  • Take safe operator input without letting a typo reach the plant
11 modules 13h 35mView course
Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Automation course coverFree
FreeSCADAIntermediate

Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Automation

How drinking water, wastewater and desalination plants are measured and controlled: the process trains, level, flow and water quality instruments, pump station duty and standby logic, VFDs and pump protection, coagulant and chlorine dosing, filter backwash sequences, RO train control, dissolved oxygen and blower control, SCADA, telemetry and alarms, cybersecurity and compliance data, ending with a pump station control narrative.

  • Draw water, wastewater and RO process trains with their instruments and control loops
  • Choose level, open channel flow and water quality instruments, scale signals and allow for sample lag
  • Set wet well levels and write duty, assist, standby, alternation and fail-over logic
14 modules 12h 19mView course
SQL for PLC and SCADA Engineers course coverFree
FreeData and analyticsBeginner

SQL for PLC and SCADA Engineers

A first database for engineers who already read tags: what a relational database holds and how it differs from a CSV export, installing MySQL or SQL Server and connecting a client, tables, data types, keys and constraints, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE, SELECT with filters, sorting, limits and calculated columns, aggregates and GROUP BY, string, date and number functions, the whole join family, UNION and temporary tables, subqueries, EXISTS and views, and normalisation up to third normal form. The video lessons teach standard SQL; the plant framing, the practice tasks and the assessments are written by EDWartens.

  • Install MySQL or SQL Server, connect a client, and read a refused connection for whether the server, the port or the password is wrong
  • Create tables with the right data types, primary keys and constraints, and predict which INSERT a constraint will reject
  • Insert, update and delete rows safely, running the SELECT first so you know how many rows will change
15 modules 9h 13mView course

Compare the SCADA courses

CourseLevelModulesVideoBrand
Ignition SCADA by Inductive AutomationBeginner137h 21mInductive Automation
Siemens WinCC SCADA: V7, Unified and AdvancedIntermediate1516h 5mSiemens
Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADABeginner114h 52mAVEVA
FactoryTalk View Site Edition SCADAIntermediate118h 31mAllen-Bradley
Wonderware InTouch SCADABeginner1113h 35mAVEVA
Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant AutomationIntermediate1412h 19mVendor-neutral
SQL for PLC and SCADA EngineersBeginner159h 13mVendor-neutral

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Questions

Which SCADA should I learn first?
Ignition if you want the modern platform with a free trial; WinCC if your plants are Siemens; InTouch and Citect for the large installed base in utilities and process.
Is there a free SCADA course with certificate?
Yes. All four courses are free and complete; the EDWartens certificate is optional and verifiable.