SCADA · Free
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.
Inside the course
From the lessons
Install and First Project
Control System Guru
Project Structure and Page Templates
Control System Guru
Devices and Communication
Control System Guru
Variables
Tahon Automation
Equipment Modelling
Tahon Automation
Graphics Pages and Symbols
Tahon Automation
Lesson frames belong to the creators named in the Credits below and are shown from YouTube.
What you will learn
Install Plant SCADA and create a project, understand clusters, servers and templates, connect Modbus and OPC devices, generate and import variables, model equipment, design pages with symbols, buttons and animation, build genies and super genies, configure alarms, schedule events, customise menus and write basic 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
- Generate and import variables and model equipment types and hierarchy
- Design pages with symbols, numeric entry, soft keys, buttons and animations
- Build genies, super genies and popups linked to equipment
- Configure digital, analog, equipment and advanced alarms
- Schedule events, customise menus, write and debug Cicode, push data to Excel
For you
Taking Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADA from the United States
- Free in the United States, as everywhere, and self-paced: lessons, notes and the final assessment are open at any hour, so your time zone and shift pattern do not matter.
- The optional certificate for learners in the United States is a one-off US$23.99. What you get for it
- Plants across the Americas most often run Allen-Bradley, Siemens and Inductive Automation; each has its own free course to take next.
- See automation and engineering jobs in the United States, and what the industry looks like in Houston, Detroit and Chicago.
- EDWartens also has a regional site for the United States, for classroom training and local support: edwartens.com/us.
The course project · about 18 hours
Sugar mill boiler house on AVEVA Plant SCADA: redundant servers, equipment-based tags, genies and rationalised alarms
Replace two OEM boiler HMIs with one redundant AVEVA Plant SCADA system: a cluster with primary and standby I/O, alarm, trend and report servers, equipment-based variable tags from two Modicon M340 PLCs and a turbine governor over Modbus TCP, boiler pages built from genies and super-genie popups, alarm categories from a rationalised list, Process Analyst trends and a Cicode shift report. You deliver the project backup, your own tag list and alarm list, and a FAT that proves redundancy. The sample pack shows what an integrator hands a mill.
Sample document pack, 10 documents, filled in for the scenario
- URSUser Requirements: Boiler House Supervisory System
- Network architectureNetwork Architecture: Boiler Control Room, Servers and PLC Links
- IP planIP Address Plan and Device List
- Tag listVariable Tag List, Equipment Hierarchy and Naming Convention
- Alarm philosophyAlarm Philosophy: Boiler House
- Alarm listAlarm List: Boilers 1 and 2, Header and Turbine Interface
- HMI specHMI Hierarchy and Page Specification: Project KSL_BoilerHouse
- SDSSoftware Design Specification: Cluster, Equipment Model, Genies, Alarms, Trends and Cicode
- FATFactory Acceptance Test Record: Boiler House Supervisory System
- O&M manualOperation and Maintenance Manual: Boiler House SCADA (Operation and Restore sections)
Read inside the course and download as a workbook. The project is optional practice, marked when you submit it; the certificate needs only the modules and the final assessment.
Course content
11 modules · 52 lessons · 5h 59m
In order, at whatever pace suits you. Each module ends with a practice task that builds on the last.
- 01Install and First Project3 lessons16m
- 02Project Structure and Page Templates4 lessons53m
- 03Devices and Communication6 lessons51m
- 04Variables3 lessons7m
- 05Equipment Modelling2 lessons35m
- 06Graphics Pages and Symbols4 lessons18m
- 07Buttons and Animation10 lessons51m
- 08Genies, Super Genies and Popups9 lessons1h 36m
Requirements
- Who it is for
- Beginner to intermediate. PLC basics assumed.
- Software
- AVEVA Plant SCADA (formerly Citect SCADA), trial/demo mode What to download, and how
- Hardware
- None. Modbus and OPC simulators provide data.
Software you need
What to download, where from, what it costs and how to install it. Every link goes to the maker's own site, never a mirror.
Required
- 01Licensed, via AVEVA or a distributor
AVEVA Plant SCADA (formerly Citect SCADA)
AVEVA
- Runs on
- Windows (check the vendor system requirements)
- Account
- Access to the AVEVA customer support portal, or an AVEVA distributor
There is no public download. Installers come from the AVEVA customer support portal or a distributor. Once installed, Plant SCADA runs without a licence in demo mode: 15 minutes with real I/O, or 10 hours with at most one dynamic real I/O point (memory and disk I/O).
Steps
- 1.Ask your employer, college or a local AVEVA distributor for access to Plant SCADA.
- 2.Install it from the media they provide.
- 3.Start it without a hardware key to run in demo mode.
- 4.Use memory and disk I/O tags so the 10-hour demo mode applies.
- Writing to more than one tag through DDE, CTAPI or ODBC switches the demo to the 15-minute mode.
AVEVA product pageaveva.comLegitimate free routes
- AVEVA InTouch HMI trial: AVEVA's own free trial download, open to anyone who registers.
- Ignition (trial mode): Free SCADA platform that runs in 2-hour sessions with unlimited restarts.
- FUXA: Free, open-source web SCADA and HMI.
Checked against each maker's own page on 27 September 2026. Trial lengths and editions change; the maker's page is the final word.
Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADA at a glance
Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADA is a free, self-paced online course from EDWartens for engineering students, ITI and diploma holders, and working engineers in automation and control. It has 11 modules and 5h 59m of video lessons by Control System Guru, Tahon Automation, Stable Automation, with written notes and worked problems, a practical project with a document pack and a 15-question final assessment (pass mark 60%). Learning is free with an account; an optional certificate with a public verification code is issued when you pass. Last updated 27 September 2026.
All course factsHide course facts
- Price
- Free, for good. No trial, no card. The only paid item is the optional certificate, a small one-off fee.
- Who it is for
- Engineering students, ITI and diploma holders, and working engineers in automation and control
- Format
- 11 self-paced modules, 5h 59m of video, written notes, a practice task per module and one final assessment.
- Level
- Beginner. Beginner to intermediate. PLC basics assumed.
- Brand
- AVEVA
- Software
- AVEVA Plant SCADA (formerly Citect SCADA), trial/demo mode
- Hardware
- None. Modbus and OPC simulators provide data.
- Certificate
- Optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, verifiable by code. Not a vendor credential.
- Video lessons by
- Control System Guru, Tahon Automation, Stable Automation (independent creators, credited below)
- Language
- English
- Last updated
- 27 September 2026
A shareable EDWartens certificate
Finish every module and pass the final assessment, and the optional EDWartens certificate is yours. It carries a unique verification code on a public page anyone can check, so it stands up when a recruiter looks it up. See it below.
The course itself stays free whether or not you ever buy one.
Stuck? Ask a practising engineer
A free course usually means a comment section and hope. This one does not. Every module has an Ask-your-trainer panel that reaches the same engineers who teach our paid programme: people who commission panels for a living, not moderators.
Pairs well with
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Learning paths with this course
- SCADA specialist · 4 coursesFour of the most widely installed SCADA platforms: InTouch, Ignition, WinCC and Citect, from tags to alarms, history and clients.
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Common questions
Citect or Plant SCADA?
Same product: Citect SCADA was renamed AVEVA Plant SCADA in 2021. The lessons cover both names and the 2023 release.
Is there a free version?
AVEVA offers a trial; the software also runs in a demo mode with limits sufficient for every exercise.
Some source lessons are members-only. Are they included?
No. One series was entirely members-only and was left out; the remaining series are public.
Is the Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADA course really free?
Yes. Every module, practice task and assessment. You create an account so your progress is saved and the assessments can be marked. The certificate is the only paid item, and only if you want it.
What certificate do I get, and is it an AVEVA qualification?
An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you pass the final assessment, with a verification code anyone can check. It is not an AVEVA credential and is never described as one.
Who made the video lessons in the Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADA course?
The creators named in the Credits block at the foot of this page, on their own YouTube channels. EDWartens did not make the videos and the creators are not affiliated with EDWartens. What EDWartens wrote is the study plan, the notes, the practice tasks and the assessments.
How long does the Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADA course take?
Plan on about 12 hours in all, including the video lessons, notes and practice tasks. It is self-paced, so you work through the eleven modules at your own speed.
What you walk away with
Your certificate for Citect SCADA and AVEVA Plant SCADA
Finish the course, pass the final, and this is the document with your name on it.
Verifiable by anyone
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QR code on the certificate
Names what you can do
A permanent link
Earned, not attended
Learning is free. The certificate is optional.
Add it now and pay only when you have finished the course, or come back for it later. One-off, US$23.99, with a receipt.
Issued by EDWartens, the training division of Wartens, as a Certificate of Completion for this self-paced course. Sold by Wartens Ltd (England and Wales). It is not a vendor certification, a university award or a CPD-accredited activity, and it does not certify competence on live equipment. Delivered electronically; see the refund policy.
Credits
Who made the video lessons
The video lessons in this course were created by the people below, not by EDWartens. Every lesson streams from its creator's own YouTube channel; EDWartens neither hosts nor sells that footage, and the creators are not affiliated with EDWartens and do not endorse this course. What EDWartens wrote is the study plan, the notes, the practice tasks and the assessments.
- Control System Guruthe AVEVA Plant SCADA beginner tutorials
- Tahon Automationthe Citect SCADA training series
- Stable Automationthe Citect getting-started, communication and Cicode tutorials
If you are one of these creators and would like a lesson removed or credited differently, write to info@wartens.com.