iFIX Training Program
Four-Day Intensive | Build Capability, Strengthen Operations, Elevate Performance.
Giving your team the skills to design, configure, and operate high-performance HMI/SCADA systems with confidence.
This hands-on iFIX training program is built for organisations that want to lift operational efficiency, system reliability, and on-site decision-making.
Unlock the Full Potential of iFIX
Modern industrial environments rely on agile, intelligent, and secure control systems. This course equips your workforce to maximise the power of iFIX from foundational setup through to advanced automation, security, and historical analysis.
Participants leave with a production-ready application they’ve built throughout the course.
- Industrial automation team
- Process and control engineering
- Instrumentation
- SCADA integration and operations
Whether your team is new to iFIX or expanding their technical capability, the content delivers value immediately.
What’s Included in the Four-Day Program
Day 1–2: Core Skills & Application Development
- iFIX fundamentals and system architecture
- Tag creation (digital & analog)
- Communications and I/O driver configuration
- Alarm setup and monitoring
- Process database configuration (thick & thin client)
- Building HMI screens, templates, and graphic objects
Day 3–4: Advanced Tools, Automation & Deployment
- Global objects, reusable graphics, and tag groups
- Advanced animation and operator interactions
- VBA for automated behaviours and smart logic
- Navigation design for intuitive user workflows
- Historian setup, collectors, and trend displays
- Security configuration across applications, tags, and pictures
- Thin Client, Webspace, and remote access
Customised Training to Meet Your Requirements
We understand that every operation has unique systems, workflows, and performance objectives. Our iFIX training can be fully customised to align with your organisation’s specific environment, industry needs, and technical priorities. Whether you require tailored modules, onsite delivery, additional hands-on labs, or sector-specific content, we can structure the program to ensure maximum relevance and impact for your team.
Key Benefits for Your Organisation
- Hands-on learning: Your team configures real components, not just theory.
- Operational uplift: Skills gained transfer directly to live environments.
- Scalable capability: Learn how to build secure, maintainable, future-proof systems.
- Industry-aligned training: Designed around modern iFIX deployment and best practice.
Historian Fundamentals Training
Equip your team with the technical acumen required to design, configure and maintain a high-performance Historian environment. This program delivers a structured, hands-on pathway through the core capabilities of Historian combining server-side administration with practical client-side development skills.
What You’ll Learn:
Participants gain a comprehensive foundation across all key operational pillars of Historian, including:
- End-to-end system architecture and communication flows between Historian servers and client nodes
- Configuration using both Windows Administrator and the Web Historian Administrator
- Managing data stores, archives, and long-term retention workflows
- Deploying and configuring collectors such as Simulation, OPC DA, OPC UA (DA), File, and Windows Performance Collectors
- Using the Web Trend Client for real-time and historical data visualisation
- Leveraging the Excel Add-In for analysis, reporting and server administration
- Configuring the OLE DB Provider for enterprise-wide data access
- Designing effective security strategies for controlled, compliant operations
- Applying Windows and Historian utilities for system troubleshooting and optimisation
Course Overview:
This fundamentals program builds essential capability for anyone responsible for implementing or supporting Historian in a production environment. The curriculum blends conceptual understanding with guided lab work, ensuring every participant can confidently configure, maintain and troubleshoot the platform.
Who Should Attend:
- Process, automation and instrumentation engineers
- Control system engineers
- System integrators involved in Historian deployment, configuration or support
Delivery Options:
- Instructor-led classroom
- Virtual delivery
- Onsite training
Duration: 16 hours
Recommended Class Size: 10 participants
Program Structure:
Session 1 –
- Introduction to Historian
- System architecture, components and administration
- Data stores & archives configuration
- Collector overview and setup, including redundancy
Session 2 –
- Tag configuration, sampling and compression
- OPC DA & OPC UA Collector configuration
- File Collector setup for XML/CSV ingestion
- Web Administrator configuration and workflows
Session 3 –
- Overview of Historian client tools
- Web Trend Client for charts, tables and data views
- Excel Add-In for analytics and reporting
Session 4 –
- Advanced Excel Add-In administration capabilities
- OLE DB Provider and SQL-based data access
- Security framework design
- Troubleshooting techniques and performance monitoring
Ready to Empower Your Team?
Position your operations for stronger performance, consistency, and visibility.
Enquire today to book your team’s training or request a tailored delivery option.