City and Guilds – Programmable Logic Controllers Reviews

For a novice it could be a little confusing to have Siemens and AB taught at the same time Some more time to understand I/O addressing would be good but I did receive additional support An equivalent basic week on AB 5000 would be useful as 500 is now a bit dated and being phased out in my industry

hard going for an old timer but eventually managed to grab the basics

Good course but feel you needed a little knowledge on this subject to progress better but learnt lots more than I thought through this course.

Good overall, some newer, more relevant PLCs would be nice to work on.

Lunch should come with a snack and some fruit. Just 1 item is not really a lunch. I got a nail in my tyre from the student car parking area. I had a look around the way into the car park and saw quite a few screws and sharp objects on ground. I think they come from the metalworks.

Very pleased with the overall course. I would have liked to do connect a computer to the PLC for the first time to give me practice setting up drivers and communication links.

good course overall well taught would be good if someone like me could see plcs in a work enviroment to understand real life processes.

I enjoyed this course but I think personally i might have needed more training to fully understand the subject.

Course provided a good overview of programming PLCs including the basic principles of logic and programming. There were aspects which were mentioned and not covered, i.e. use of the pneumatic rig to demonstrate PLC control. Elliot is very knowledgeable and very familiar with interfacing with PLCs and the software, which is the area I was most interested in. I did have a question relating to a PLC I am familiar with regarding BTW, BTR commands in Allen Bradley which he was unfamiliar with. Some aspects of the course were, in my eyes, taught in quite confusing way, for example number base systems. The lunch was okay for myself but nothing special. One of my colleagues however had his dietary requirements disregarded on two separate occasions.

Very good course, I was happy with the basics early on and would of liked to explore more complex areas of the program if time allowed. Elliot was very helpful throughout.