AI for Engineering

AI for Industrial Automation

Use AI for documentation, alarm reviews, and change notes. It is not used to write live control logic for plant. Available for corporate training after a proposal. This is not a published open course with a public date or price. AI does not replace engineering judgment, formal verification, or professional responsibility.

Duration: Confirmed in the proposal
Delivery: In-person · virtual · at your site
Level: Advanced
Location: Hikma Institute in Al Khobar, client site, or virtual

Prerequisites

PLC or SCADA experience. Plant changes remain under the employer's permit system.

Practical use cases

I/O list comments
Alarm rationalisation notes
Change-request drafts
As-built documentation

Learning objectives

Comment an I/O list without inventing addresses
Draft an alarm note from observed floods
Write a change request a controls lead can review

Who it is for

Controls and automation engineers who already work with PLC, SCADA, or industrial networks.

Modules

Documentation first
Alarm quality
Change control
What never goes to the PLC unchecked

Practical exercises

Find a duplicate alarm description
Rewrite generated ladder comments
Draft a Management of Change note

Tools covered

Named for current capabilities. No vendor partnership is claimed.

ChatGPT
Claude
Excel
Microsoft Copilot

Final assignment

Deliver a documentation pack for one control change. No live logic is uploaded or executed.

Learning outcomes

A commented I/O sample
An alarm note
A change-request draft

Certificate and assessment

Hikma issues a certificate of completion for training it delivers. Where an independent professional credential is named, the awarding body issues it after its own eligibility rules and examination. An external exam fee is not included unless the enrolment confirmation says so. Assessment is against the session objectives.

Hikma certificate of completion. It is not an external software-vendor or professional-body credential.

Booking and price

Available for corporate training: request a proposal. This page does not publish a price or date.

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