Career field
Instrumentation, Controls & Automation
Build from process drawing literacy into PLC logic, industrial communications, diagnostics, and virtual labs.
- Representative audience
- Operators, technicians, maintenance personnel, and early-career automation professionals
- Courses
- 3
- Estimated learning
- Up to 107 hours
- Practical/lab courses
- 3
Recommended progression
Build capability in a deliberate order.
The final assignment sequence can change with the role, prior experience, workplace, employer program, and applicable requirements.
- 01IMA-INS-501
P&ID Reading & Interpretation
Read controlled P&IDs, trace process and signal paths, interpret equipment, valves, instruments, loops, interlocks, and complete a multi-drawing capstone.
- 02IMA-AUT-601
PLC & Industrial Controls
Develop PLC architecture, I/O, ladder logic, sequences, analog, HMI, documentation, troubleshooting, and change-control skills in a protected virtual lab.
- 03IMA-NET-701
Industrial Network Communications
Configure and troubleshoot Modbus, RS-485, Ethernet, IPv4, switching, diagnostics, OT security, backup, and rollback in an isolated virtual network.
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