OPCTI offers a variety of hands-on courses that offer people in the industrial, commercial, and military field with a theoretical background on OPC as well as practical hands-on experience that they can immediately apply at their job. Students can use these courses as credit toward their COP designation. The following is a list of the available courses and the dates at which they are offered.
Students learn about OPC and how to troubleshoot and repair DCOM problems. The class covers the most common OPC specifications: OPC DA, OPC HDA, OPC A&E, OPC UA, and OPC Xi. Students also get to practice OPC concepts such as client/server architecture, tunneling, bridging, and redundancy.
Students learn how to secure their OPC implementation by configuring their firewall, Data Execution Prevention, Windows Authentication, Access Control Lists (ACL), Windows Services, Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) implementation, and how to continuously monitor the health of their real-time communication system. This enables plants to comply with IT, industrial, and federal regulations.
Students learn the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) set of specifications. The hands-on class covers the security model that enhances Classic OPC capabilities. Students explore OPC UA's data information model and data transportation, which now use Web Services and binary protocols to eliminate reliance on Microsoft's DCOM technology.
Students learn large integration project requirements that affect machines, plants, and SCADA. They setup firewall ports to enable OPC communication. They setup a VPN to tunnel through firewalls and NAT. Students also discuss FAT and SAT (Factory / Site Acceptance Testing) to comply with IT, industrial, and federal regulations.
The OPC Training Institute and Honeywell partnered to host training that specifically targets the Honeywell Experion PKS implementation of OPC. Students learn how Honeywell Experion PKS works with OPC, how to troubleshoot and repair DCOM problems, and how to make the system secure. The class covers all the OPC specifications, what they offer and how OPC applications are expected to behave. Then, students learn how to troubleshoot and repair OPC communication problems. Specifically, this training enables students to delve into DCOM configuration and diagnostics as they apply to Honeywell Experion PKS.