The Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX Fundamentals course is designed to provide a good working knowledge of iFIX. Valuable hands-on lab exercises are provided to guide students through the building and modification of the HMI/SCADA application.

Who Should Attend:

This course is designed for process, automation, or instrumentation engineers and system integrators who will be developing, configuring, and using applications on an iFIX system.

Prerequisites:

Participants should have a working knowledge of Windows 2000, and/or Windows XP operating systems.

What tasks will be taught in this class?

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Understand communication between iFIX SCADA Servers and iFIX iClient nodes.
• Configure iFIX nodes using the System Configuration Utility.
• Configure I/O Drivers to communicate with iFIX.
• Create and modify standard Process Database tags.
• Create graphic screens (pictures) using a wide variety of object types and animations.
• Design and build a picture navigation strategy.
• Create basic scripts using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
• Configure alarming and create screens to monitor and acknowledge alarms.
• Use trending to monitor both real-time and historical data.
• Design and build a system-wide security strategy.
• Use a variety of iFIX Utilities and Operating System administrative options to troubleshoot project or system process faults.