Siemens TIA Portal v18
Mastering the Machine Zoom webinar on Siemens TIA Portal version 18 with pricing and installation issues. Also a description of January's upcoming Mastering the Machine workshops.
Automation Direct Productivity 2000
Mastering the Machine Zoom webinar on Automation Direct's Productivity software and unboxing of the Productivity 2000 starter kit.
PLC Cross Referencing
Mastering the Machine Zoom webinar on PLC Cross-referencing. Siemens Step 7 and TIA Portal, Allen-Bradley RSLogix500 and Studio 5000.
PLC Philosophy
Mastering the Machine Zoom webinar on PLC Standards, templates, origins and more. Why are platforms so different? In this webinar I compare Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Beckhoff and Omron.
Omron CX-One
Mastering the Machine Zoom webinar on Omron's CX-One PLC platform. I had just taught my second class in Detroit earlier that week and had been working with the HMI, so I put together a simple demo. Did you know that there is a free download of the software in the...
Designing your Study Path in Industrial Automation and how ChatGPT Might Help
Mastering the Machine Zoom webinar on how to design your course of study to become a well-rounded professional in the field of Industrial Automation. This directly relates to the Careers section here at the Academy. Also a look at ChatGPT, which can help you in...
Road Trips and Random Stuff
This webinar was not on Zoom, it was more or less a report on my 3400 mile driving trip to ABD in Miami and an Automation Training class in Houston.
IT and OT Convergence
Mastering the Machine webinar on the convergence of IT and OT in industrial automation over the past 20--30 years. My guests were Saad Shabbir, a Pakistani integrator, and Matthew Bryan, who has many years of corporate IT experience.
Beckhoff and TwinCAT3
Mastering the Machine webinar on Beckhoff and TwinCAT3. A look at the simulation program I use for training at Automation NTH and samples of the PLC languages used in TwinCAT (LAD, FBD, ST and SFC).
Content Creation, Camtasia and Complaints
Mastering the Machine webinar on how courses are created using Camtasia, required documents for an LMS, and an evil hacker dude even showed up about 11 minutes in.