Deliver PLC Training at Scale — Without Per-Trainee Licensing or Hardware Overheads
Running 10 learners is manageable. Running 40 across two cohorts, three dialects, and blended delivery is where the wheels come off. Physical rigs depreciate. Vendor licences don't travel. Audit season needs verifiable evidence. The Teams plan is built for commercial PLC training delivery: SETA-accredited training centres, CPD providers, private training schools, bootcamp operators.
Where physical rigs and vendor licenses break your delivery model
Physical rigs don't scale — they depreciate
A single industrial training rig runs from a few thousand dollars into five figures depending on the dialect and add-ons. With four rigs and 15 learners, you are running rotation schedules and administrative overhead instead of delivering training. Learners cannot take rigs home. Rigs break, and replacement parts take weeks.
Vendor software licenses aren't designed for third-party delivery
Siemens, Rockwell, and Schneider license agreements are written for end-user industrial deployments, not commercial training providers. Restrictions on third-party use, dongles, version-locking, and per-machine seat counts create IT headaches and compliance risk for every new intake.
No branded completion evidence for your learners
Your SETA audit trail needs verifiable evidence. Your learners want shareable PDFs they can put on LinkedIn. Vendor platforms generate vendor-branded certificates that reflect the vendor, not your training center and its reputation.
Remote and blended delivery is an afterthought
Physical hardware lives in your building. When a learner cannot attend in person — illness, transport, load shedding, work commitments — the fallback is a slide deck. There is no single platform that covers in-person, remote, and self-paced delivery simultaneously.
The solution
Built for commercial training delivery
Org-private custom scenarios aligned to your course outline
Build scenarios that are visible only to your team — your learners do not see the public scenario library, only the scenarios you have designed for your course. Create a mining-conveyor scenario or a food-and-beverage batch control scenario that matches exactly what your client companies run.
Cohort management from a single admin console
The /team admin console lets you assign learning paths per cohort, track completions, and reassign seats between intakes. Running three cohorts in parallel from the same account is straightforward — separate learning paths, same seat pool.
Completion records that support your audit trail
Every scenario completion generates a timestamped, learner-attributed record. Exportable cohort reports and per-learner portfolio PDFs give your compliance team the documentary evidence needed for SETA and CPD audit processes.
Nine dialects for multi-vendor client bases
One subscription covers IEC 61131-3, Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron, KEYENCE KV, Schneider, Delta, and Instruction List. When a client company runs Omron on the production line and Siemens on the utility systems, your learners can practice both — without a separate platform or license for each.
Blended and remote delivery without a separate platform
The same browser-based environment works on-site in your training room and at home on a learner's laptop. No installation, no VPN, no version mismatch. Blended delivery becomes a configuration choice, not a logistics problem.
Curriculum you can deliver
The full PLC syllabus your learners build and are graded on
Every concept below is a graded, browser-based exercise your learners complete in a supervised session or at home — no rig to rotate, no per-trainee vendor licence, and an auto-grader that removes most of the manual marking from your delivery. Map these to your course outline, or build org-private scenarios that mirror your client companies' plant.
One browser-based environment for in-person, remote, and self-paced delivery.The scan cycle — the foundation lesson every cohort starts with.The ladder symbol set — the alphabet your learners are assessed on.Auto-graded rungs — less manual marking, consistent assessment across cohorts.Timers — timed sequencing for traffic-light and conveyor scenarios.Counters — part counting for conveyor-sort and batching scenarios.Motor control — circuits that mirror your client companies' plant.Nine PLC learning dialects — deliver to a multi-vendor client base on one subscription.
Pilot outcomes
What a training-centre pilot should prove
Delivery: can learners reach an auto-graded pass in a supervised session without installing vendor software or waiting for a shared training rig?
Evidence: can facilitators export progress and verifiable completion evidence that supports their existing learner-record process?
Pricing
Per-seat, per-year — no per-cohort charges
Seats
Annual cost (USD)
Effective per learner (4 cohorts/yr)
12 seats
$2,388 / yr
$49.75 per learner [ESTIMATE]
24 seats
$4,776 / yr
$49.75 per learner [ESTIMATE]
Effective per-learner cost assumes seats are reassigned across 4 intakes per year and is marked [ESTIMATE]. See full pricing →
What's included
Everything in the Teams plan
✓All 170 published scenarios with fault-injection and full sandbox sessions
Certificates earned on a paid Teams seat can identify the organization that delivered the training. Certificates earned during the free evaluation pilot do not carry your organization's name — that starts once seats are paid. Uploading a custom logo or replacing the PLC Simulation Software issuer identity is not supported either way.
The platform generates timestamped, per-learner activity records and portfolio PDFs that can serve as supporting evidence in your audit trail. It is not a substitute for WSP/ATR registers, attendance records, or assessor sign-offs. A sample report is available on request so your compliance team can assess suitability before you commit.
Yes. Access is 24/7 with no session-gating. Learners can log in outside scheduled training hours and continue at their own pace. This is particularly useful for blended delivery where structured sessions are supplemented by self-paced practice.
When a seat is reassigned, the previous learner's account reverts to the free tier. Their portfolio PDFs remain accessible to them. Progress data is retained under their account and is not deleted. The seat is then available for a new learner on your next cohort.
None beyond a modern browser and an internet connection. There is no installation, no dongle, no license server, and no IT department involvement required. The platform works on Chromebooks, tablets, and any desktop or laptop from the last five years.
Yes. You can create separate learning paths per cohort and manage them from a single admin console. All cohorts draw from the same seat pool, so you can split seats across intakes as needed.
Training providers may include assigned learner access as part of a paid course or cohort. The platform is not white-labelled, and access may not be resold as a standalone product outside your enrolled learners. Your instructors keep their own course brand; the simulator and its certificates keep the PLC Simulation Software issuer identity.
Those tools are Windows desktop installs with per-machine licensing written for end-user industrial deployments, not third-party training delivery — which creates dongle, version-locking and compliance headaches for every new intake. Our platform is browser-based with reassignable per-seat pricing, org-private custom scenarios, auto-grading, and cohort reporting for your audit trail. The same environment covers in-person, remote, and self-paced delivery without a separate platform or per-machine license.
Yes. There is no install and no dongle, so the same browser-based environment runs in your training room and on a learner's own laptop, Chromebook, Mac or Linux machine at home. Blended and remote delivery become a configuration choice rather than a logistics problem — useful when a learner cannot attend in person due to transport, load shedding or work commitments.
Scale your PLC training without scaling your hardware costs.
Create a free team account and configure your first cohort. No hardware. No vendor license overhead.
Use a real cohort before making a purchasing decision. Send your work email and organization; we’ll reply with a pilot plan and only ask for the details relevant to your setup.
Competency and practice field guide
PLC simulator for training centers: practice plan
Direct answer
The institution can map competencies to exercises, define lab access and assessment evidence, and identify the physical equipment still required.
Written for technical colleges, training centers, instructors and program managers planning browser PLC labs across mixed devices and learner cohorts.
System map / 02
NODE 01observable
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Scope
Learner profile, qualification outcome, class size, device policy, accessibility, instructor workflow, practice hours, assessment rubric, evidence retention and physical-lab boundary.
NODE 02observable
02
Signal path
Curriculum outcome through lesson, runnable task, changed case, captured program and result, assessor review and remediation decision.
NODE 03observable
03
Baseline practice
One class exercise launched, completed, reviewed and repeated across representative devices and accounts.
NODE 04observable
04
Edge cases
Weak connectivity, shared device, late enrollment, accessibility need, copied answer, browser refresh, failed save and absent instructor.
NODE 05observable
05
Fault practice
A curriculum, access, device, identity, assessment, evidence, remediation or physical-transfer gap.
NODE 06observable
06
Transfer to the job
Pilot evidence reviewed with instructors and learners before phased program adoption and physical-lab integration.
Answer surface / 07
Q01
How can a training center use a PLC simulator?
Map each exercise to a competency, require observable machine behavior and explanation, then combine browser evidence with supervised electrical and hardware practice.
Q02
What should be piloted before institution-wide rollout?
Test representative devices, network restrictions, accounts, accessibility, instructor review, assessment exports and at least one failure-and-recovery workflow.
Watch the real browser product respond to the task on this page, then try the same practical workflow yourself. No slides, concept mockups, install, or credit card.
