Industrial Automation
Ready for the Future
Training & Workshop
modern technologies
Security
New market requirements, the need for greater flexibility, and the ongoing development of technologies and standards are transforming process automation and factory automation. For plant operators, manufacturers, system integrators, and other stakeholders in industrial automation, it is becoming increasingly important to understand these developments and their interrelationships, evaluate them, and put them into context for their own organizations. This is where my training sessions and workshops come in: They provide practical knowledge of fundamentals and current technologies, demonstrate how they interact, and place them in the context of broader technological and economic developments. The increasing requirements for cybersecurity are also taken into account. The focus is not on examining individual technologies in isolation. What matters most is understanding their interrelationships and their significance for industrial practice. Practical examples and demonstrations help make even complex technological developments understandable and tangible. The goal is to provide participants with the knowledge and guidance they need to make informed assessments of new technologies and requirements, ask the right questions, and understand connections beyond their own field of expertise.
This is exactly where my training sessions and workshops come in: They teach the fundamentals and the latest technologies in a practical way, demonstrate how they interact, and place them within the context of broader technological and economic trends. They also take into account the growing demands on cybersecurity.
The focus here is not on examining individual technologies in isolation. What matters most is understanding how they relate to one another and their significance for industrial practice. Practical examples and demonstrations help make even complex technological developments understandable and tangible.
The goal is to provide participants with the knowledge and guidance they need to make informed assessments of new technologies and requirements, ask the right questions, and understand how things are connected beyond their own field of expertise.
Your advantages
Sales Professionals at Supplier Companies
Your product portfolio is constantly evolving. At the same time, customers increasingly expect sales professionals not only to know individual products, but also to understand their potential applications, how they interact with other technologies, and how they fit into the broader context of customer requirements. This training expands your existing product and application knowledge by providing a broader understanding of current technologies, standards, and developments. This enables you to identify new requirements at an early stage, discuss them competently, and derive new business opportunities for your company.
This training expands your existing product and application knowledge to include a comprehensive understanding of current technologies, standards, and developments. This enables you to identify new requirements early on, discuss them knowledgeably, and derive business opportunities for your company from them.
- Understand and contextualize current market demands, technologies, and standards
- Position your own product portfolio within the context of overarching automation solutions
- Better understand customer needs, ask the right questions, and identify new business opportunities
Marketing and Product Management Professionals
Market demands, customer needs, and technological capabilities are constantly evolving. It is therefore crucial for marketing and product management professionals to understand new technologies and standards at an early stage and assess their significance for existing and future products and solutions.
The training course covers the technological concepts and provides the necessary background knowledge to make informed assessments of developments, align customer requirements and market needs with technological possibilities, and use this to generate ideas for customer solutions, product strategies, and future offerings.
- Identify and assess market requirements and technological developments at an early stage
- Align customer needs with technological capabilities and product strategies
- Identify and categorize opportunities for new products, solutions, and business areas
Technical Specialists in Industrial Automation
Technical specialists possess in-depth, specialized knowledge in their respective fields. However, as technologies become increasingly interconnected and integrated, it is becoming ever increasingly important to understand related fields and broader contexts as well.
The training expands participants' existing expertise by providing a cross-technological perspective on modern automation concepts, communication technologies, and standards. This enables participants to better understand and contextualize new developments, assess their significance for their own field of expertise, and understand how they interact with other disciplines.
- Understand cross-technological interconnections and modern automation concepts
- Learn about new technologies and standards, put them into context, and assess their impact on your own field of expertise
- Understand connections with related disciplines and support interdisciplinary collaboration
Entry-Level Professionals in Industrial Automation
Today, getting started in industrial automation requires much more than just an understanding individual technologies or products. In existing plants, technologies and standards that have evolved over decades coexists with current and future automation concepts. It is therefore important to be familiar with both established and new technologies and to understand how they interact and evolve.
This training provides entry-level professionals with a structured overview of key fundamentals, established technologies, and current developments. It helps participants place technologies and terminology in a broader context, understand connections between different areas, and build a solid foundation for their further professional development.
- Learn about and understand the fundamentals and established technologies of industrial automation
- Classify current technologies and standards and trace their development from existing technologies
- Identify connections between different technologies and areas of automation and develop a comprehensive understanding
The contents
Digitization, Digitalization, and Digital Transformation
Understand concepts, identify differences, and apply them to real-world situations.
Industrial Communication and Networking Technology
Understand the OSI model, networks, switching, routing, VPNs, firewalls, NAT, and redundancy concepts, and apply them in practical contexts.
Cybersecurity, Standards, and Regulations
Understand and contextualize NIS2, CRA, ISO/IEC 27001, and ISA/IEC 62443, and apply their requirements in practice.
Industrial Communication and Protocols
Understand HART, HART-IP, WirelessHART, PROFIBUS, PROFINET, Modbus, and EtherNet/IP, and apply this knowledge in practical contexts.
Field Device Integration and Device Management
Understand FDI, FDT/DTM, and modern concepts for the integration and management of smart field devices, and apply this knowledge in a practical context.
NAMUR Open Architecture (NOA) &
PA-DIM ®
Understand and contextualize NOA and PA-DIM – make device data available in a standardized format and usable for digital applications.
Ethernet All the Way to the Field with SPE and Ethernet-APL
Understand and contextualize SPE and Ethernet-APL – enable end-to-end Ethernet communication to field devices, even in hazardous areas.
The Content at a Glance
The green check marks indicate the technologies, standards, and concepts covered in the training.
Agenda
What You Will Learn in the Workshop
A compact overview
- Distinguish and contextualize Digitization, Digitalization, and Digital Transformation
- Understand and protect IT/OT communication and industrial networks
- Understand cybersecurity, standards, and regulatory requirements
- Learn about industrial communication protocols
- Understand field device integration with FDI and recognize its benefits
- Put NOA, PA-DIM, and OPC UA into the context of secure digital applications
- Understand SPE and Ethernet-APL as Ethernet technologies for the field level and recognize their benefits
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