Get an introduction to the control system SCADA and then see it in action with a hands-on project.
Learning SCADA: Collect, Analyze, and Visualize Data for Industrial Automation
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Learn about SCADA in industrial systems
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- SCADA system introduction
- SCADA system architecture and components
- An example of a SCADA system
- An overview of the different software used for SCADA
- SCADA in action: Project introduction
- Introduction to the OPC standard
- OPC server/client
- OPC connection mechanism
- Advantages of using OPC protocol
- OPC DA vs. OPC UA
- Different OPC software overview
- Skkynet Cogent DataHub software tour
- Example of using DataHub OPC with a simulator PLC
- Differences between OPC and SCADA system
- Introduction to Ignition SCADA software
- Download and install Ignition Gateway
- Download and install Ignition Designer
- Ignition software tour: Ignition Gateway
- Ignition software tour: Ignition Designer
- Demo part 1: Adding DataHub OPC UA to Ignition software
- Demo part 2: Adding OPC-UA tags to Ignition Designer
- SCADA project introduction
- Identifying the SCADA system architecture and components
- Project demo prior to using SCADA
- Step 1: Adding data to OPC server (Cogent DataHub)
- Step 2: Adding OPC server to Ignition Gateway
- Step 3: Adding tags to the Ignition Designer project Adding components
- Step 4: Design the SCADA HMI
- Step 4: Design the SCADA HMI
- Step 5: Binding OPC tags to HMI components
- SCADA project demo
- Export and import Ignition Designer project
- Troubleshooting tips
- Final thought: Security
- Next steps
Taught by
Zara Khalil
