Workshop 1: Contracting and Project Foundations for SCADA Systems
This workshop focuses on how early contracting, scope definition, and responsibility boundaries quietly lock in downstream SCADA risk often before design begins.
Key topics:
How SCADA scope definitions become operational constraints
Vendor roles, responsibilities, and interface boundaries
Contract gaps that routinely surface as commissioning failures
How contract language controls testing, acceptance, and ownership
Identifying embedded risk before it becomes expensive or unsafe
Outcome:
Participants learn how to identify and correct contractual and planning weaknesses before they are permanently embedded into system design and execution.
Workshop 2: SCADA System Design, Configuration, and Integration
This workshop examines how SCADA architecture, configuration, and integration decisions shape system behavior during commissioning and live operations.
Key topics:
System architecture and control intent
Alarm design and operational consequences
Integration of field devices, control equipment, and communications
Documentation practices that either support or undermine operations
Design weaknesses that typically surface during commissioning
Outcome:
Participants develop a practical understanding of how design and configuration choices directly affect operational reliability and operator trust.
Workshop 3: Commissioning and System Startup Risk Management
This workshop concentrates on the highest-risk phase of the SCADA lifecycle—where accumulated design, contracting, and integration decisions are finally exposed.
Key topics:
Commissioning intent versus reality
Testing strategies for logic, alarms, and communications
Vendor, contractor, and operations coordination
Recognizing incomplete or misleading test results
Preventing unresolved issues from entering live operations
Outcome:
Participants learn how to recognize commissioning risk early and support a controlled transition from project delivery to operational service.
Workshop 4: SCADA Operations, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting
This workshop focuses on operating and maintaining SCADA systems after commissioning—often systems that operators did not design and cannot easily change.
Key topics:
Operator interaction and alarm management
Troubleshooting control and communication issues
Using documentation as an operational tool
Managing live system changes without introducing new risk
Sustaining reliability over time
Outcome:
Participants gain tools to support stable operations, faster issue resolution, and reduced unplanned downtime.
Workshop 5: Control Systems Governance, Cybersecurity, and Compliance
This workshop addresses the governance and oversight structures required to protect SCADA systems over time—technically, operationally, and organizationally.
Key topics:
Control system governance models
Cybersecurity awareness in industrial environments
Change management and configuration control
Regulatory and compliance considerations
Accountability and documentation for long-term stewardship
Outcome:
Participants understand how governance and cybersecurity practices reduce long-term operational, regulatory, and organizational risk.
All workshops are instructor-led, scenario-based, and focused on real-world operational outcomes rather than vendor-specific tools. The series may be delivered individually or as a complete lifecycle sequence, depending on organizational needs.
These classes exist because many SCADA problems are operational, not software-related.
In consulting engagements, we repeatedly see the same risks embedded during contracting, design, commissioning, and early operations. Training allows those operational lessons to be shared directly with the people responsible for running and inheriting these systems.
The goal is not to teach software, but to reinforce engineering discipline, system ownership, and long-term operational reliability.
Operational Engineering for SCADA Systems
(Contracting Through Commissioning and Operations)
Date: March 2026
Format: In-person / On-site (details forthcoming)
Corporate and on-site delivery options are available.