Our Approach to Training
Practical, Site-Focused Automation Training That Works in the Real World
At Opensoft Systems, we specialise in delivering hands-on, practically focused automation training that’s tailored to your site, your systems, and your team’s real-world challenges. Our mission is to help you upskill your workforce and improve your operational efficiency—safely, confidently, and with minimal downtime.
Training Built Around Your Site – Not a Generic Program
Unlike traditional automation training courses, our approach is unique:
We base our sessions on your actual PLC applications, your plant environment, and the specific automation technology you use every day. By referencing your own systems, we ensure your team is learning skills that are directly relevant and immediately applicable.
Empowering Your Team to Diagnose & Resolve Faults Fast
Our training goes beyond the theory. We focus on the real-world faults and issues that commonly occur on production sites—but are often ignored by generic training providers. Your team will learn how to:
- Quickly connect to live systems
- Diagnose problems efficiently
- Apply proven troubleshooting techniques
- Minimise downtime during unexpected failures
- Maintain safe, stable, and efficient operations
Reduce Downtime. Build Confidence. Improve ROI.
Every training session is designed to equip your engineers and technicians with the confidence, competence, and control they need to keep your operations running smoothly. The result? Less downtime, faster response times, and a stronger, more capable team.
Flexible & Adaptable Training
Our courses provide engineers with a first-hand practical approach to problem-solving and troubleshooting. Courses can be tailored to your team‘s requirements so that we don’t spend valuable course time covering system capabilities that are rarely used and that are of less interest or use to your team. Our focused approach ensures your team receives a course that is 100% relevant to their day-to-day role, supporting your site’s control systems.
Additionally, our courses are modular and are adapted to reference your own applications. This is provided at no extra cost. To do this, we use a copy of your application and reference specific course modules around it. This flexibility ensures that during the training, your team can visualise how an exercise relates to your plant’s application.
Our training programs are designed to develop practical skills in the design, operation, and maintenance of control systems—whether you’re working with PLCs, SCADA, DCS, or integrated automation platforms. From foundational concepts to advanced troubleshooting and system optimization, our courses are tailored to the specific needs of control engineers and technicians.
We offer hands-on training using real-world examples and simulated environments, enabling engineers to:
- Understand control system architecture and components
- Configure and program control logic
- Diagnose and resolve system faults
- Integrate and maintain systems across multiple platforms
- Apply best practices in system safety, reliability, and performance
Leveraging our expertise in industrial plant systems, we deliver training that is both technically rigorous and operationally relevant. Engineers leave our sessions better equipped to manage their systems, reduce downtime, and drive process efficiency.
With us, training isn’t just a knowledge transfer—it’s an investment in engineering capability.
What You’ll Learn
- The ability get online to the PLC and interpret your code.
- Techniques to enable effective troubleshooting and fault finding.
- To backup and download PLC programs.
- Make minor code modifications e.g. create a timer, change scaled values in the PLC.
- Easily recognise what position your plant should be at by viewing your PLC’s code.
- Relate quickly and clearly an electrical drawing to relevant sections of PLC code.
- Control system architecture & design principles
- PLC programming and configuration
- SCADA & HMI interface development
- Maintenance best practices & safety standards
Why Choose Us
All training is delivered by trainers who have been previously been senior engineers with hands-on industry experience, tailored to your specific systems and operational goals.
- 20+ years of real-world automation experience
- Custom training aligned with your infrastructure