PLC 10 Reviews

I would recommend sending out pre course reading material for anyone who has no experience with PLC's. More fault finding needed on course. More setting up of equipment needed on course.

I feel like 2 weeks of just using push buttons and lighting LEDs is to much. Maybe do the first week on the push button boards then move on to the conveyer belts. Also I feel the course needs a part in for the installation of PLC's most jobs roles attendees are looking to go into would include that and it would be nice to be prepared for that.

It would be better if there was only 1 system used instead of 2. As the tutor was teaching two different systems at one time it was a bit of cross reference going on.

interesting and useful course for most engineering industry, a good amount on knowledge is needed before attending the course, this will allow the content to be understood better and the student to get more out of the course. time should be allocated for extra teaching in the case of students struggling with the course content.

The equipment is old and it may be time for an update of the computer, screens, key boards and PLCS. The constant engaged tone that was omnipresent in the room was an unwelcome distraction, often breaking my concentration. The presentation of the material was done very well, Eliott was a great orator. However, the course content was covered too quickly for me. Also we were told that the content of the course was primarily for learning fault finding. We had no exercises in looking at completed programmes and finding faults. The main method was building our own problems, full of faults that are only there because I mis-understood function and I did not find this helpful. The written presentation was a bit poor. The explanations were excellent but again a bit fast. I could have done with a slow walk through for things like flasher circuits and how to reset programmes and jump back to main programmes, from subroutines. Over all I found Eliott cordial and approachable and I could ask him to fault find my programmes, that he fixed, without fail. If he was slower wit the presentations, he could pass on better some of his excellent skill in fault fining and rectification. This course was the week of the Queen funeral so we lost a full day.

I found that the time management from the instructor was poor in that we spent a lot of time waiting for him to finish on the phone so that we could ask for help. I found the Thursday on the second week to be a lot of sitting about when the exam could have been brought forwards or had additional training. Course content was relevant and useful. PLC rigs were well set up. Would have preferred more training on the practical PLC modules I.E. grab and lift etc.

We enrolled on the PLC intermediate course and appear to have been put on the second week of the plc 10. we feel we did not get what we booked as per the course description or content

Elliot was helpful with the course contents and received some useful learning points. However i was hoping to progress onto more complex PLCs in the second week and explore more complex aspects of the PLCs (e.g networks, analogue functions, complex programs) as advertised on the internet. It was apparent early on that the course was very much set and there wasn't much flexibility to progress beyond the set contents of the course.

I asked for additional help with after work reading material, so I could study back at the hotel, no hand outs that where useful, usb had less than useful material on it and the zip files wouldn't open, very disappointed in the course, feel like I wasted me resettlement grant and I'm contemplating cancelling my second course with you.

PLC Course could of been better, i came with no knowledge to write a program so i'm happy with that progression. however first week there was 11 people which was too many candidates. 6 were on simens and 5 on allen bradley, so the first week was very confusing because the instructor had to explain functions for both per 1 instruction. so essentially half of your learning day is irrelevant. if it was planned out better and the equipment was up to date, i could of progressed further.