Fully online technical training designed around real industry demand, so you can specialize at your own pace.
10/31/2026
Start Date
2 months
Duration
100
Total Hours
6 Modules
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ICTESS’s SCADA and HMI: Alarms, Trends, and Historian Training Course trains specialists in configuring, operating, and optimizing industrial supervisory control systems. The program covers the technical skills needed to design efficient operator interfaces (HMIs), manage alarm systems to industry standards, and configure data historian platforms in automation environments.
You’ll learn to configure SCADA architectures with industrial communication drivers, design HMI screens applying usability and visual ergonomics principles, implement alarm management systems under ISA-18.2, configure real-time and historical trends, and generate automated reports that export operational KPIs. The course includes a capstone project where you’ll apply everything you’ve learned to a complete industrial supervisory project.
The SCADA and HMI: Alarms, Trends, and Historian Training Course responds to growing demand for professionals who can configure and optimize industrial supervisory systems. Modern production plants depend on well-designed HMI interfaces and robust SCADA systems to ensure operational efficiency, process traceability, and an effective response to abnormal conditions through intelligent alarm management.
The course’s purpose is to train technicians who can design HMI screens that improve operator decision-making, configure alarm systems that prioritize critical events according to international standards, implement data historians for trend analysis and process optimization, and generate automated reports that feed performance indicators.
The training includes hands-on practice with professional SCADA software used in real industrial environments (WinCC, FactoryTalk View, Ignition) and culminates in a capstone project where you’ll develop a complete supervisory project applying every technical skill acquired across the modules.
The SCADA and HMI: Alarms, Trends, and Historian Training Course prepares you for specialized technical roles at automation integrators, industrial maintenance departments, machine builders, and process optimization consultancies. You can work as a SCADA/HMI programmer, a control systems technician, an alarm management specialist, or a plant data historian and analytics lead.
The training prepares you to configure complete SCADA projects from communications architecture through commissioning: establishing connections to PLCs using industrial protocols, designing operator screens based on usability criteria, implementing alarm systems with prioritization and escalation, and configuring trends and historians for performance analysis.
You’ll also build the skills to audit existing HMI systems, propose usability improvements aligned with ISA standards, configure automated data exports to MES/ERP systems, and design KPI dashboards for operations leadership.
Study from anywhere with no commuting required. Balance your technical specialization with your current professional career.
Organize your study schedule around your own availability. Move through modules at the pace that works best for you and revisit anything you need extra practice with.
Learn WinCC, FactoryTalk View, and Ignition, the SCADA tools systems integrators use on real-world projects.
Technical video lessons, up-to-date downloadable materials, forums with specialized instructors, and hands-on configuration exercises.
With ICTESS, you’ll get specialized technical training focused on professional practice and designed to help you master the skills the industrial automation sector demands. Learn with an up-to-date methodology and real supervisory tools.
What you'll achieve
Configure SCADA architectures with industrial communication drivers (OPC UA, OPC DA, Modbus, Profinet) to establish reliable connections with PLCs and field devices.
Design HMI screens applying usability principles, visual ergonomics, and ISA-101 standards to improve operational efficiency and reduce operator error.
Implement alarm management systems under ISA-18.2: prioritization, states, acknowledgment, escalation, and alarm system performance analysis.
Configure real-time and historical trends, implement data historians, and design queries for process analysis and detecting operational deviations.
Generate automated reports, export data to external systems (MES, ERP, Excel), and design dashboards with operational KPIs such as OEE, availability, and performance.
The industrial automation sector is undergoing rapid transformation driven by Industry 4.0 and the digitalization of production processes. Modern manufacturing plants generate millions of operational data points that require robust SCADA systems for visualization, management, and analysis. Properly configuring alarm systems and data historians is critical to ensuring operational efficiency and industrial safety.
A Shortage of Alarm Management Specialists: The job market faces a significant shortage of technicians who can implement alarm systems under ISA-18.2. Many industrial plants suffer from alarm flooding, which reduces operational effectiveness, and need trained professionals to rationalize and optimize these critical systems.
Growing Demand for Historian Skills: Today’s automation projects require integration with MES and ERP systems, KPI exports for management dashboards, and trend analysis for predictive maintenance. Professionals who can configure historians and design data analysis strategies are highly valued by companies across every industrial sector.
A Competitive Edge in the Job Market: Specialized training in SCADA/HMI with a focus on alarms, trends, and historians sets you apart significantly from generalist profiles, positioning you as a preferred candidate at systems integrators, machine builders, and automation departments that need this specific technical expertise.
Completing the SCADA and HMI: Alarms, Trends, and Historian Course positions you in a technical area with strong demand. Industrial digitalization and Industry 4.0 are driving the need for professionals who can design, configure, and optimize supervisory systems at production plants across every sector.
Mastery of Professional Tools: Hands-on experience with SCADA platforms like WinCC, FactoryTalk View, and Ignition sets you apart in the hiring process, since these are the environments integrators and machine builders use to build industrial supervisory projects.
Ability to Optimize Existing Systems: You’ll build the skills to audit current SCADA installations, identify deficiencies in alarm systems against ISA-18.2 standards, and propose usability improvements that boost operational efficiency and reduce operator error.
Recognized Professional Certificate: The ICTESS professional certificate validates your technical specialization in SCADA/HMI systems, strengthening your position in the job market and confirming your skills to companies in the industrial automation sector.
This course is designed for technical professionals and graduates looking to specialize in configuring, operating, and optimizing industrial supervisory systems. Recommended profiles include:
Program details
The capstone project is the culminating stage of the program and represents the practical integration of every technical skill developed throughout the course. It involves developing a complete SCADA/HMI supervisory project, from configuring communications through implementing the historian system, applying the professional methods and industry standards used across the sector.
The project includes configuring a SCADA architecture with communication drivers to field devices, designing HMI screens applying usability principles under ISA-101, implementing a complete alarm system with rationalization, prioritization, and escalation under ISA-18.2, configuring real-time and historical trends, and designing automated reports that export operational KPIs in professional formats.
The project also includes technical documentation: functional specifications for the screens, an alarm matrix with priority justifications, historian configuration, and an operating manual for end users. The final documentation must be presented with the technical depth and professional format SCADA integration projects require, demonstrating your ability to develop complete supervisory systems that could be deployed in real industrial environments.
ICTESS’s SCADA and HMI: Alarms, Trends, and Historian Training Course includes hands-on training with the SCADA platforms most widely used in industry: Siemens WinCC for automation environments built on S7 PLCs, Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk View for architectures with Allen-Bradley controllers, and Ignition by Inductive Automation, a cross-platform solution built on a modern SQL database architecture. You’ll learn to configure communication drivers (OPC UA, OPC DA, Modbus), design screens following usability principles, implement alarm systems with prioritization and escalation, and configure historians for trend analysis. Proficiency with these tools is highly valued in hiring processes at integrators, since they’re the environments used to build industrial supervisory projects at production plants.
PLC programming experience isn’t required, but a basic understanding of industrial automation is recommended, along with familiarity with concepts such as digital inputs/outputs, registers, variable addressing, and industrial communication protocols. The course is designed for automation technicians, industrial electricians with experience in automated environments, and engineers who work with control systems. If you’ve operated existing SCADA systems, worked with PLCs at a maintenance level, or completed prior automation training, you’ll have the foundation needed to get the most from the content. The program includes an initial module on architectures and communication drivers that establishes the technical fundamentals before moving into screen design and advanced alarm management.
The ICTESS professional certificate validates your technical specialization in SCADA/HMI systems and is recognized by companies in the industrial automation sector as high-level supplementary training. While it isn’t an official university degree, the certificate documents specific, in-demand technical skills: configuring SCADA architectures, designing screens to ISA-101 standards, implementing alarm systems under ISA-18.2, and configuring historians for data analysis. Integrators, machine builders, and automation departments especially value this hands-on training as a complement to professional experience, since it shows you’re current on applicable standards, proficient with real industry tools, and have hands-on experience developing supervisory projects.
This SCADA and HMI: Alarms, Trends, and Historian Training Course stands out for its specialized focus on alarm management and data historization, two critical areas many general courses don’t cover in enough depth. While most SCADA training focuses only on basic screen design, this program dives deep into implementing alarm systems under the international ISA-18.2 standard (rationalization, prioritization, states, performance analysis), advanced historian configuration for trend analysis, and generating automated reports with operational KPIs. The course also includes hands-on training with multiple professional SCADA platforms (WinCC, FactoryTalk View, Ignition), letting you adapt to different technology environments depending on the project or employer.
