Industrial Automation Fundamentals

Professional Online Training

Learn Industrial Automation from Signal to System

See how sensors, PLCs, motor controls, operator interfaces, and networks work together. This beginner course helps you interpret industrial control behavior and approach faults with safety in mind.

Written by industrial technician with over 10 years of practical experience, this excellent-quality, practical online training builds useful knowledge and confidence. You receive a Satoms training certificate after successful completion.

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Verified Satoms Course Rating
4.8 out of 5
Based on 22 learner reviews
Course Level: Beginner
Course information last reviewed: September 2026

What You Will Learn

Move beyond identifying individual devices to understand the control path that connects them. You will learn to:

  • Trace a sensor input through PLC logic to an actuator using a system diagram.
  • Identify basic electrical supplies, field devices, and common signal types.
  • Interpret PLC input and output status and simple ladder logic in a machine sequence.
  • Compare contactor and variable frequency drive motor control.
  • Distinguish local HMI functions, SCADA supervision, and industrial network roles.
  • Explain how measurement, setpoint, and controller output relate in a basic PID feedback loop.
  • Recognize safety boundaries and plan structured, authorized fault checks.
  • Identify preventive checks that support automation reliability.

Why Train with Satoms

Understanding a control system takes more than memorizing equipment names. Examples from manufacturing, mining, utilities, and industrial facilities show how the components interact in situations technicians may encounter. Clear online lessons help you build from individual signals and devices toward system behavior and practical fault-finding.

Satoms training is written by an industrial technician with over 10 years of practical experience. Its emphasis is on useful knowledge, excellent quality, and the confidence to make better-informed observations without taking unsafe shortcuts. Real course reviews are displayed separately, so you can consider learner feedback alongside the course details.

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Who This Course Is For

This beginner course is for people who want a working foundation in industrial control, including:

  • Technicians and maintenance personnel who encounter automated equipment.
  • Electricians and apprentices expanding their understanding of control systems.
  • People entering industrial automation who want to understand how devices interact.

No previous PLC or automation training is needed.

Course Benefits

When equipment behaves unexpectedly, understanding the relationship between field devices, controllers, drives, and displays helps you identify where a problem may begin. You can describe PLC and field-device observations more clearly to maintenance or engineering colleagues and better distinguish an interface symptom from a controller or network concern.

The course also helps you recognize when safeguarding, isolation, or escalation must come before inspection. Identifying sensible preventive checks can support reliability, while a structured approach helps you avoid treating a symptom as the whole fault. This is foundational training, not authorization to work on energized equipment.

Training Certificate on Completion

Satoms provides a training certificate after you successfully complete the course requirements. These include a final assessment of 20 multiple-choice questions on control paths, device roles, PLC behavior, motor control, HMI and SCADA, networks, PID concepts, and safe fault-finding. The pass mark is 80%.

Course Requirements

Allow approximately 12–14 hours for the online lessons and assessment. To take part, you need:

  • An internet-connected device.
  • No previous PLC or automation training; basic electrical terminology is helpful but not essential.
  • A commitment to follow workplace safety procedures. Any practical work requires site authorization and supervision.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need previous PLC or automation training?

No previous PLC or automation training is needed. Basic electrical terminology is helpful but not essential.

How much time should I allow for the course?

Allow approximately 12–14 hours for the online lessons and assessment.

Will I receive a training certificate?

Satoms provides a training certificate after you successfully complete the course requirements.

Does this course authorize me to work on energized equipment?

No. This is foundational training, not authorization to work on energized equipment.

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