PLC Simulator

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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.

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The problem

Where physical rigs and vendor licences 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 licences aren't designed for third-party delivery

Siemens, Rockwell, and Schneider licence 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 centre 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.

Eight dialects for multi-vendor client bases

One subscription covers IEC 61131-3, Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron, Schneider, Delta, and Instruction List. When a client company runs Omron on the production line and Siemens on the utility systems, your learners can practise both — without a separate platform or licence 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.

The PLC simulator running in a training-room or at-home browser — editor, live simulation and auto-grader in one tab for blended and remote delivery, no install or licence serverA web browser window running a PLC ladder logic simulator with an input/output strip, requiring no installation or download.plcsimulator.app/playno installINPUTSOUTPUTS
One browser-based environment for in-person, remote, and self-paced delivery.
The PLC scan cycle in the training-centre curriculum — read inputs, execute the program, update outputs, repeat — an early lesson every cohort completesThe repeating PLC scan cycle: read inputs, execute the ladder logic, update outputs, then housekeeping, looping continuously.1Read Inputs2Execute Logic3Update Outputs4HousekeepingSCANCYCLE
The scan cycle — the foundation lesson every cohort starts with.
Ladder logic symbols in the training-centre PLC syllabus — normally-open and normally-closed contacts, output coils, set and reset coils — the symbol set learners read and writeThe core ladder logic symbols side by side: XIC examine-if-closed, XIO examine-if-open, OTE output energize, OTL output latch and OTU output unlatch.XICIfXIOIfOTEEnergizeLOTLLatchUOTUUnlatch
The ladder symbol set — the alphabet your learners are assessed on.
A ladder logic rung in the training-centre PLC simulator — a contact driving a coil — auto-graded against test cases to reduce manual marking for your assessorsA basic ladder logic rung between two power rails: an examine-if-closed contact (XIC) in series driving an output coil (OTE).L1L2] [StartXIC I:0/0LampOTE O:0/0
Auto-graded rungs — less manual marking, consistent assessment across cohorts.
An IEC TON on-delay timer timing chart in the training-centre curriculum — timed sequencing behind traffic-light and conveyor delivery scenariosA TON on-delay timer: the accumulated time bar ramps up toward the preset value, and the done (DN) bit turns on when the accumulator reaches preset.TONPRE 5000ACCACC ramps to PREPREDNdone bit
Timers — timed sequencing for traffic-light and conveyor scenarios.
An IEC CTU up-counter in the training-centre PLC syllabus — part counting for conveyor-sort and batching scenarios learners are graded onA CTU count-up counter: each input pulse increments the accumulator toward the preset, and the done (DN) bit turns on when count reaches preset.count pulsesCTUPRE 5ACC 3ACCcount toward presetDNdone bit
Counters — part counting for conveyor-sort and batching scenarios.
A motor start-stop control circuit in the training-centre PLC simulator — start, stop and overload logic mirroring the plant equipment your client companies runA 3-wire motor control circuit: Stop and Start pushbuttons, a contactor coil with a seal-in auxiliary contact and an overload contact, driving a motor.StopStartM (seal-in)OLMMmotor
Motor control — circuits that mirror your client companies' plant.
The five IEC 61131-3 languages plus eight vendor dialects in the training-centre curriculum — Ladder, Function Block, Structured Text, SFC and Instruction List — for a multi-vendor client baseThe five IEC 61131-3 PLC programming languages as chips: Ladder Diagram, Function Block Diagram, Structured Text, Instruction List and Sequential Function Chart.IEC 61131-3 — five languagesLDLadder DiagramFBDFunction BlockSTStructured TextILInstruction ListSFCSequential Func. Chart
IEC 61131-3 plus eight dialects — deliver to a multi-vendor client base on one subscription.

Early adopters

Training centres currently on the platform

Case study coming Q3 2026 — A SETA-accredited training provider in Gauteng running N3-N6 Industrial Electronics cohorts. Currently documenting outcome against audit requirements.

Case study coming Q3 2026 — A private CPD-accredited training school delivering blended Allen-Bradley and Siemens programmes. Currently documenting cost comparison vs vendor licences.

Pricing

Per-seat, per-year — no per-cohort charges

SeatsAnnual 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 40+ scenarios with fault-injection and sandbox mode (full session length)
  • All 18 structured lessons
  • All 12 quizzes
  • All 6 interview preparation tracks
  • Portfolio PDF export per learner
  • 8 PLC dialects: IEC 61131-3, Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron, Schneider, Delta, Instruction List
  • Org-private custom scenario builder — visible only to your team
  • Admin console with cohort progress reporting, learning path builder, and member management
Questions

Training centre PLC simulator FAQ

Not currently. Branded certificates are not a feature of the platform at this time. This is on the product roadmap and we are tracking demand — if this is important to your operation, let us know. Do not assume this will be available for your next intake.

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