Overview
The Proficy HMI/SCADA - Advanced iFIX course is designed to pick up where the iFIX Fundamentals course ends. The course is intended to provide the student a base level of proficiency using some of the product’s more advanced features. The student will become familiar with some of the tools and concepts available for optimizing and troubleshooting iFIX.

Participants
This course is principally designed for process, automation, or instrumentation engineers and system integrators who will be developing, configuring, and using applications created with iFIX.

Tuition
$1,900.00 billed in advance with Check, Credit Card or Purchase Order

Prerequisites
Completion of iFIX Fundamentals course is required. Familiarity with relational databases and VBA would be helpful, but not required. Participants should have a working knowledge of Windows 2000, and/or Windows XP operating systems.

Upon completion of this Course, the student will be able to:

• Understand detailed architecture communication between iFIX SCADA Servers and iFIX iClient nodes
• Configure iFIX to communicate with OPC Servers and configure OPC Clients to communicate with iFIX
• Apply optimization techniques for I/O Drivers, Process Database, and graphics.
• Create Tag Groups, Key Marcos, ActiveX objects, and Global objects to enhance graphic screens
• Configure iFIX to communicate with Relational Databases, including setting up ODBC, iFIX Database, iFIX alarms, and iFIX graphics using VisiconX
• Design and build a system wide security strategy including Electronic Signatures
• Understand and implement a SCADA Failover strategy
• Understand how Terminal Services can be used with iFIX.

Course Length
4 Days

Class Size
10 Students

Course Hours
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Course Agenda

• Architecture
• iFIX OPC Client I/O Driver
• iFIX OPC Server I/O Driver
• Process Database
• Advanced Process Database
• ODBC Basics
• iFIX Real Time ODBC Option
• Configuring the SQL Blocks
• VisiconX
• VBA Review
• VBA Automation in Reporting
• ActiveX
• Reporting using iFIX ODBC
• Optimizing
• Troubleshooting
• SCADA Redundancy
• LAN Redundancy