SmartOpsTech / Academy

Four disciplines. One career trajectory.

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Track 01 · Discipline

Project Management

Capital project delivery for engineering teams — from initial scoping through commissioning and handover. Built on real CDM, FAT/SAT, and risk frameworks from live industrial engagements.

PM-101 Foundation

PMP Exam Preparation

Structured 35-hour programme aligned to the PMI PMP exam content outline. Combines facilitated sessions, practice questions, and live case studies from industrial engagements.

Duration
5 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Intermediate
  • People, process & business environment domains
  • Agile, hybrid & predictive methodologies
  • 4 timed practice exams with feedback
  • PMI-approved 35 contact hours
£1,950/ delegate
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PM-201 Advanced

Agile & Scrum for Engineering Teams

Adapting Agile and Scrum for hardware-software hybrid projects — where you can’t deploy a half-built control system on Friday afternoon. Practical patterns for SAT cycles, milestone gates, and stakeholder cadence.

Duration
3 days
Format
In-person
Level
Intermediate
  • Scrum events & artefacts in hardware contexts
  • Kanban for ongoing maintenance backlogs
  • Estimating with deep uncertainty
  • Stakeholder governance & reporting
£1,400/ delegate
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PM-301 Specialist

Industrial Project Delivery

End-to-end delivery of capital control system projects — URS, FDS, SDS, FAT, SAT and handover. Walks through real engineering deliverables from chemical, food & beverage, and lime production sites.

Duration
4 days
Format
In-person
Level
Advanced
  • CDM 2015 regulations for control engineers
  • FAT & SAT planning, scripting, execution
  • Document control: URS → FDS → SDS chain
  • Commissioning, training & handover gates
£1,750/ delegate
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PM-302 Specialist

Risk & HAZOP for Capital Projects

Quantitative and qualitative risk management for engineering project managers, with a deep dive into HAZOP facilitation, LOPA, and risk register stewardship across the project lifecycle.

Duration
2 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Intermediate
  • HAZOP facilitation & documentation
  • LOPA, fault tree & bow-tie analysis
  • Risk register design & review cadence
  • Contingency & escalation pathways
£1,200/ delegate
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Track 02 · Discipline

AI & Data Science

Applied machine learning for process engineers — not data science theatre. Every course ends with a deployed model running against real industrial data, not a notebook in a folder.

AI-101 Foundation

Machine Learning for Process Engineers

A grounded introduction to supervised and unsupervised ML using industrial time-series data. Engineers leave able to frame, train, evaluate, and critique their first production-relevant model.

Duration
5 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Foundation
  • Python, NumPy, pandas for engineers
  • Regression, classification, clustering essentials
  • Cross-validation & metric selection that matter
  • Capstone: predict a process KPI from historian data
£1,850/ delegate
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AI-201 Advanced

Industrial Anomaly Detection

Isolation Forest, autoencoder, and ensemble approaches for catching incipient faults on rotating equipment. Includes the operational reality of false-positive cost and operator trust.

Duration
3 days
Format
In-person
Level
Advanced
  • Univariate vs multivariate anomaly framing
  • Autoencoders & reconstruction error
  • Ensembles & threshold calibration
  • From alert to operator-trusted workflow
£1,500/ delegate
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AI-202 Advanced

Time-Series Forecasting & Predictive Maintenance

Classical methods (ARIMA, exponential smoothing) alongside modern deep approaches (LSTM, Temporal Fusion Transformer) applied to demand, energy, and equipment health forecasting.

Duration
4 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Advanced
  • Statistical baselines: ARIMA, ETS, Prophet
  • Deep forecasting: LSTM, TFT, N-BEATS
  • RUL estimation for predictive maintenance
  • Probabilistic forecasting & uncertainty
£1,800/ delegate
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AI-301 Specialist

Computer Vision for Quality Inspection

From classical image processing through to modern CNNs and vision transformers, deployed on edge hardware for in-line quality inspection at production speed.

Duration
4 days
Format
In-person
Level
Specialist
  • OpenCV for industrial inspection
  • Transfer learning with CNNs & ViTs
  • Edge deployment: Jetson, OpenVINO
  • Integration with PLC & SCADA via OPC UA
£1,950/ delegate
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AI-302 Specialist

LLMs & RAG for Industrial Knowledge

Build production-grade retrieval-augmented generation systems grounded in P&IDs, FDS documents, and operating procedures. Citation traceability, hallucination control, and on-prem deployment.

Duration
3 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Specialist
  • Embeddings & vector search fundamentals
  • Chunking strategies for technical documents
  • Citation, traceability & hallucination control
  • On-prem deployment patterns & security
£1,650/ delegate
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AI-303 Specialist

MLOps for Industrial AI

Closing the gap between a working notebook and a model that survives in production. Versioning, deployment, monitoring, and drift detection for plant-floor ML systems.

Duration
3 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Specialist
  • MLflow & model registries
  • Containerised serving with FastAPI / Triton
  • Monitoring, drift detection & retraining
  • On-prem & edge MLOps patterns
£1,600/ delegate
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Track 03 · Discipline

Software Development

Modern software engineering practices, tailored for the industrial automation context — where uptime, traceability, and safety constraints shape every architectural decision.

SW-101 Foundation

Python for Engineering

A focused, no-fluff Python course for engineers who need to automate data work, build small tools, and integrate with industrial systems. From zero to writing useful scripts in five days.

Duration
5 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Foundation
  • Core language: types, functions, packages
  • pandas & NumPy for engineering data
  • Working with CSV, Excel, OPC UA, Modbus
  • Testing, virtual environments & packaging
£1,750/ delegate
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SW-201 Advanced

Industrial Web Apps: FastAPI + React

Build production-grade web applications that wrap industrial data — FastAPI back-ends, React front-ends, time-series visualisation, and authentication. End with a working internal tool.

Duration
5 days
Format
In-person
Level
Advanced
  • FastAPI: routing, validation, async
  • React fundamentals & Recharts visualisation
  • WebSockets for live process data
  • Auth, deployment & reverse proxy
£2,200/ delegate
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SW-202 Advanced

Database Design for OT Systems

Designing data storage for industrial systems — PostgreSQL for relational data, TimescaleDB and InfluxDB for time series, and the trade-offs that matter when historian data meets analytics.

Duration
3 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Advanced
  • Relational design & normalisation
  • Time-series databases & downsampling
  • Schemas for batch, continuous & discrete processes
  • Backup, retention & compliance patterns
£1,400/ delegate
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SW-301 Specialist

Git, CI/CD & DevOps for Engineers

Software engineering hygiene for control and automation engineers — version control, code review, automated testing, and continuous deployment patterns adapted for the industrial reality.

Duration
3 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Specialist
  • Git workflows: trunk-based, GitHub Flow
  • Code review & PR culture for small teams
  • GitHub Actions & GitLab CI pipelines
  • Versioning PLC code, recipes & deliverables
£1,350/ delegate
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Track 04 · Discipline

Industrial Automation

The core craft — from PLC programming foundations through to functional safety. Taught by certified engineers with production experience across Siemens, Rockwell, Beckhoff, and Codra platforms.

IA-101 Foundation

PLC Programming Foundations

Two parallel streams in one classroom — Siemens TIA Portal (S7-1500) and Rockwell Studio 5000 (CompactLogix). Engineers leave able to read, modify, and deploy structured PLC code on real hardware.

Duration
5 days
Format
In-person
Level
Foundation
  • Ladder, FBD, ST & SCL fundamentals
  • Tag & data block design conventions
  • HMI integration & basic alarming
  • Hands-on with real PLC trainers
£2,100/ delegate
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IA-201 Advanced

PID Tuning Masterclass

A rigorous, mathematics-light, methodology-first course on PID tuning for real industrial loops — from flow and pressure through to multi-variable temperature systems with significant dead time.

Duration
3 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Advanced
  • Process identification methods that work
  • Ziegler-Nichols, Lambda & IMC tuning
  • Cascaded & feedforward configurations
  • Live tuning on simulated & physical loops
£1,500/ delegate
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IA-202 Advanced

SCADA Development

High-performance HMI design and SCADA development following ISA-101 principles. Hands-on labs across AVEVA, Ignition, and Codra Panorama with the focus on operator-effective interfaces.

Duration
4 days
Format
In-person
Level
Advanced
  • ISA-101 high-performance HMI principles
  • Screen hierarchy, navigation & alarm management
  • Object-oriented SCADA development
  • Reporting, redundancy & cyber considerations
£1,850/ delegate
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IA-301 Specialist

Functional Safety & SIL

Functional safety for control engineers — IEC 61508/61511 lifecycle, SIL determination, safety instrumented function design, and proof testing. Aligned to TÜV-style assessment expectations.

Duration
4 days
Format
In-person
Level
Specialist
  • IEC 61508 / 61511 safety lifecycle
  • SIL determination & verification
  • Safety instrumented function design
  • Proof testing & management of change
£2,200/ delegate
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IA-302 Specialist

Industrial Networking & OT Cyber

PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, OPC UA, and Sparkplug B in depth, alongside an honest treatment of the OT cyber landscape — segmentation, monitoring, and the IEC 62443 standards family.

Duration
3 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Specialist
  • Industrial Ethernet protocols compared
  • OPC UA modelling & security
  • MQTT Sparkplug B for IIoT
  • IEC 62443: zones, conduits & security levels
£1,650/ delegate
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IA-303 Specialist

Migration: Legacy to Modern PLCs

The practical art of PLC migration — S5 to S7-1500, SLC-500 to ControlLogix, and similar journeys. STL-to-ladder conversion patterns, tag mapping, and rollback strategy.

Duration
3 days
Format
Hybrid
Level
Specialist
  • Code analysis: STL, ladder, structured text
  • Tag mapping & documentation strategies
  • FAT and SAT scripting for migrations
  • Phased cutover & rollback planning
£1,550/ delegate
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Delivery

Three ways to learn.

Every programme runs in three delivery formats. We work with you to find the one that fits your team’s operating reality.

01

Public cohort

Individual engineers join a scheduled cohort with peers from other organisations. Excellent for cross-industry perspective and networking. Runs quarterly from a central UK location.

02

On-site team

We deliver the programme at your facility with your engineers, using examples drawn from your processes and data. Most cost-effective for groups of 6 or more.

03

Hybrid & virtual

Live virtual sessions with a dedicated facilitator, paired with hands-on practical labs and asynchronous coursework. Designed for teams distributed across sites or geographies.

Ready to develop the next generation of engineering talent?

Tell us about your team, the discipline you’re prioritising, and your target timeline. We’ll come back within two working days with a recommended programme.

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