Industrial Automation & Smart Manufacturing Learning Hub

Learn PLC, SCADA, DCS, MES, IIoT, ISA-95, ISA-99 and Industry 4.0 with practical tutorials and real-world examples.

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Learning Categories

Instrumentation

Temperature, pressure, level, flow and process measurement basics.

PLC

PLC hardware, logic, programming concepts and industrial use cases.

SCADA

Real-time monitoring, alarms, trends, control screens and reporting.

DCS

Distributed control systems for process and continuous industries.

MES

Production tracking, work orders, quality, compliance and OEE.

IIoT & Industry 4.0

Connected machines, analytics and digital manufacturing systems.

Industry Standards & Emerging Technologies

ISA-95

Business and manufacturing system integration across ERP, MES, SCADA and plant-floor systems.

ISA-99

Industrial cybersecurity concepts for OT networks, zones, conduits and defense-in-depth architecture.

ISA-88

Batch process control, recipe management, procedural models and equipment models.

Tutorial Library

Instrumentation Tutorials

24 articles organized into 4 learning chapters.

PLC Tutorials

33 articles organized into 8 learning chapters.

SCADA Tutorials

33 articles organized into 9 learning chapters.

DCS Tutorials

28 articles organized into 7 learning chapters.

MES Tutorials

47 articles organized into 10 learning chapters.

Smart Manufacturing Guides

Industrial IoT (IIoT)

IIoT architecture, OPC UA, MQTT, edge computing, security and practical use cases.

Data & Analytics

Historians, OEE, KPIs, SPC and dashboards that operators and managers actually use.

AI in Manufacturing

Predictive maintenance, visual inspection, process optimization and how to implement AI safely.

About MFG Tech Hub

MFG Tech Hub is a free learning resource for engineers, students and manufacturing professionals who want to understand how modern plants are automated and managed. The library currently includes more than 165 in-depth articles, from the basics of sensors and transmitters to PLC programming, SCADA and DCS architecture, manufacturing execution systems and industrial standards such as ISA-88, ISA-95 and ISA-99.

The content is written by Bhargava Reddy Kapireddy, a manufacturing and control systems professional with more than 15 years of experience across power generation, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and process manufacturing. Every tutorial is vendor-neutral and focused on how the technology is used in real plants.

New to industrial automation? Start with Instrumentation, move on to PLCs, then explore SCADA, DCS and MES. Read more about MFG Tech Hub.