The HMI/SCADA iFIX Fundamentals course is designed to provide a good working knowledge of iFIX.

Description

The iFIX Fundamentals course is designed to provide a good working knowledge of iFIX. All major features are covered, from project configuration to data acquisition and visualization. Valuable hands-on lab exercises are provided to guide students through the building and modification of an HMI/SCADA application from top to bottom.

Audience

This course is designed for process, automation or instrumentation engineers and system integrators who will be developing, configuring and using applications on an iFIX system.

When you complete this course, you will be able to:

• Understand communication between iFIX SCADA Servers and iClient nodes.
• Configure iFIX nodes using the System Configuration Utility.
• Configure I/O Drivers & OPC Servers to communicate with iFIX.
• Create and modify Process Database tags.
• Create graphic screens (pictures) using a wide variety of object types and animations.
• Design and build a picture navigation strategy.
• Create basic scripts using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
• Configure alarming and create screens to monitor and acknowledge alarms.
• Use trending to monitor both real-time and historical data.
• Design a system-wide security strategy.
• Use a variety of iFIX Utilities and OS tools to troubleshoot project or system process faults.

For location based classes, these will be 4 days, 8 hours each day. For online classes, these will be 5 days, 6 hours each day. 

Course Syllabus