Hello Ignition Guru's,
I am curious to learn how you all learned how to use IA, Vision, and even PLC's like Studio5000. I know experience is the best teacher but I am interested in any courses, video channels, or resources that helped you grasp these tools.
So far, I learned how navigate in Designer and Studio5000 mainly to find tag references to troubleshoot why a signal isn't responding accordingly. I am also comfortable doing some basic surface level editing on the GUI.
My goal would be to learn how to write scripts, create a control screen from scratch, and be able to add new icons for any new equipment we install at our facility. I have a lot of time at work to learn new skills and this is a skill that I would like to begin honing. Not sure if this is the place to ask but if it is not I'd be happy to find out where else I can ask.
I am a process engineer (less than 2 years) at a small chemical manufacturing plant. I am the only engineer onsite aside from my plant manager who is also a chemical engineer. As such, I get full access to control system but I rarely make any major changes for fear of messing something up. We previously had a 40+ year old PLC veteran onsite part time who I would learn from but he is more and more becoming a distant consultant that only comes if there is an emergency and there usually are not many.
Our plant mainly has on/off valves, level sensors on 4-20 mA, pressure transmitters at 4-20 mA ,and temperature transmitters all at 4-20 mA. We have 3 flow meters onsite and a control valve.
As an undergraduate I gained experience with Matlab, basic Python, and modifying some scripts in openFOAM to improve a ion transport model on a windows subsystem for linux so I am comfortable navigating through new softwares but not sure how else that is beneficial to my current goal of understanding Ignition and Studio5000.
Anything helps. Thank you!