FESTO Professional Certificate

PLC Programming Track

FACT Center
Location
On-Campus
Duration
96 Credit hours - 3 weeks

Develop progressive PLC programming capabilities for designing, implementing, and optimizing industrial automation systems.

Teaching Hours
Weeks
Credential

Credential

FESTO
Professional Certificate

Location

Location

On-Campus

Language

Language

English
(Arabic Support)

Program overview

Advance your technical capabilities through intensive FESTO Professional Certificate programs designed around specialized industrial technology tracks. Each 96-contact-hour certificate develops practical, job-relevant competencies through focused training in technologies that support modern manufacturing and automation.

Develop progressive PLC programming capabilities for designing, implementing, and optimizing industrial automation systems.

Why Choose a FESTO Professional Certificate?

  • Specialized learning pathways aligned with industrial technology areas.
  • 96 contact hours of focused technical development.
  • Practical training designed to strengthen workplace-ready competencies.
  • Suitable for engineers, technicians, graduates, and professionals seeking deeper specialization.

Who Should Attend?

Engineering students and graduates, technicians, industry professionals, and learners seeking structured specialization and practical skills in this technology track.

Curriculum

What You Will Study

  • Overview of controllers used in the Industry
  • PLC fundamentals in general
  • Functions of the components used in Electro-Pneumatics
  • Handling of the PLC programming software
  • Definition of the in- and output addresses
  • Absolute and symbolic addressing
  • Structural programming and uncondition and condition call
  • Planning, edit and test projects in digital technology

  • Functions of the single FMS stations
  • Components - specification and function
  • Definition of the input and output addresses of the FMS stations
  • Absolute and symbolic addressing
  • Plan, edit and test PLC projects for each single FMS station
  • Planning of the I/O-communication between the single stations
  • Plan, edit and test the I/O-communication
  • Plan, edit and test the material- and signal flow through the entire FMS

  • Functions of the MPS PA Workstations
  • Components - specification and function
  • Definition of the input and output addresses
  • Absolute and symbolic addressing
  • Theory of analogue inputs and normalization
  • Arithmetic functions of the PLC - theory and exercises
  • Project using analogue inputs and normalization to the process variable
  • Project using analogue outputs and normalization to the process variable
  • Plan, edit and test of a 2-step controller
48,600 EGP
NU Students
12,150 EGP
Outside NU Students
14,580 EGP