Training and method transfer
I deliver training sessions for industrial companies, software vendors, project teams, IT/OT specialists, engineers, integrators and consultants who need to understand, design and challenge industrial systems, architectures and transformation choices.
Courses combine industrial experience, standards, systems thinking and practical architecture methods. They can be delivered in a standard format or adapted to a specific project, product, architecture or transformation context.
A practical and project-oriented approach
The purpose is not simply to present standards or concepts. Training should help participants understand industrial situations, challenge assumptions and apply models and methods to architecture, functional design, interoperability, performance and transformation.
Understand
Clarify fundamental concepts, models, responsibilities, architecture levels and the reasoning behind industrial standards and methods.
Apply
Connect concepts to real situations through examples, exercises, architecture questions, project cases and practical decision-making.
Transfer
Give teams a shared language, decision criteria, reasoning models and practical points of attention that remain useful after the training session.
Available formats
Training can be delivered in two complementary ways: in-company sessions adapted to an organisation, project or product context, and open inter-company sessions proposed with Automation Hub.
In-company training
Sessions can be adapted to your context: automation architecture, MES/MOM, ERP-to-plant integration, IT/OT interoperability, industrial transformation, performance, knowledge representation or AI-related initiatives. Examples and exercises can be aligned with the maturity and concerns of the participating team.
Open inter-company sessions
Open sessions may be proposed with Automation Hub, allowing participants from different companies to train on industrial standards, methods, architectures and transformation approaches.
1. Automation design — ISA-88 / IEC 61512
A training course on the functional design of industrial automation and control systems, using ISA-88 as a powerful modelling framework rather than limiting it to batch-management software.
Audience
Automation and process engineers, engineering and industrialisation teams, operations, project managers, system integrators, MES specialists and digital transformation teams.
Content
Physical, process and procedural models, equipment entities and control responsibilities, product/process/equipment separation, modularity, sequencing, batch control, recipes, PFC/PPC, PackML and functional-design methodology.
Benefits
Improve automation architecture and functional specifications, clarify equipment and procedural responsibilities, increase modularity and reduce ambiguities between process, automation, MES and operations.
2. MES/MOM & interoperability — ISA-95 / IEC 62264 / B2MML
A training course to make practical use of ISA-95 in MES/MOM, ERP-to-plant and industrial interoperability projects: business objects, responsibilities, transactions, messages, reference data and application interactions.
Audience
Industrial CIOs and IT leaders, MES/MOM project managers, industrial architects, integrators, methods experts, automation engineers, consultants and software teams.
Content
ISA-95 concepts and models, resources, operations management, business objects, transactions, messaging, aliases, interoperability profiles, ERP/MES responsibilities and practical use of B2MML.
Benefits
Clarify ERP/MES/SCADA/automation responsibilities, structure exchanges and shared concepts, challenge fragile point-to-point integration and establish a common language between IT, OT and operations.
3. Intelligence and performance of industrial systems
A training course to understand the industrial enterprise as a complex sociotechnical system: information flows, autonomy, regulation, indicators, decision-making, organisational intelligence and performance.
Audience
Executives, industrial and performance leaders, development and transformation teams, information-system leaders, enterprise architects, consultants and industrial managers.
Content
Systems thinking, information and complexity, organisational control and autonomy, Viable System Model, fractal organisation, regulation, performance indicators, global performance and systemic diagnosis.
Benefits
Step back from local indicators and decisions, understand their behavioural and systemic effects, identify conflicting objectives and improve the relationship between performance and enterprise-wide outcomes.
4. Digital transformation of industrial systems
A training course to address industrial digital transformation beyond technology trends: architecture, transformation priorities, information-system evolution, interoperability, assets, organisational choices and gradual migration.
Audience
Executives, industrial and digital transformation leaders, CIOs, IT/OT leaders, performance teams, consultants, project managers and industrial architects.
Content
Digital technologies and industrial initiatives, industrial IT and automation, MES/MOM, reference architectures, performance, transformation debt, assets and configurations, organisational design and gradual migration.
Benefits
Distinguish enduring needs from technology hype, clarify transformation priorities, challenge architectural choices and build more realistic and progressive evolution roadmaps.
5. Knowledge representation & AI
A training course to understand why advanced interoperability, digital twins, industrial AI and domain assistants require more than accessible data: they depend on operational concepts, relationships and context that remain understandable across systems and viewpoints.
Audience
Industrial leadership teams, software vendors, data and AI teams, industrial architects, MES/MOM specialists, methods teams, integrators, consultants and transformation teams.
Content
Operational and domain models, vocabularies, reference information, contextualisation, ontologies, knowledge graphs, heterogeneous representations, semantic interoperability and preparation of operational knowledge for AI.
Benefits
Recognise implicit or inconsistent models, clarify what different interoperability approaches can and cannot provide, structure reusable operational knowledge and identify what AI applications need beyond raw or contextualised data.
The course is informed by my work on Enterprise Knowledge Representation (EKR), while remaining applicable independently of any particular technology, ontology or implementation approach.
Training grounded in field experience and systems thinking
These courses draw on long experience across industrial systems: process control and automation, MES/MOM, industrial IT, ERP-to-plant integration, interoperability, functional architecture, performance, industrial standards and digital transformation.
The objective is not simply to transfer information, but to provide concepts and reasoning methods that participants can reuse when analysing architectures, specifications, products and transformation decisions.
Depending on the audience, sessions can include case discussions, short exercises, quizzes, architecture analysis, demonstrations and work on participants’ own situations.
Build an adapted training session
Do you want to train a team, prepare a project or product, challenge an architecture, or create a shared language between operations, engineering, IT, OT and management?
SyntropicFactory — consulting, training and R&D by Jean Vieille.