RSLogix 500 and SLC-500 Training

I need to teach a course to some in-house engineers on RSLogix 500 and SLC-500 PLCs. Does anyone know where I could get my hands on a training manual for such a course?

Check with your AB dist. talk to the software specialist . They have a Trainer CD for rslogix.

Thanks for the idea, but I am looking for training tools (CD, manual, etc.) for under $50 - extremely low budget you might say.
kw

I just have to say it.

If you want low budget-don't go AB.

how about some details?

what is the duration of the course? ... what background do the students already have? ... what do you expect them to be able to do AFTER the course that they cannot do NOW? ... have you ever taught such a course before? ... who came up with this budget? ...

you can always download and print parts of the manuals from the AB website ... have you considered doing that? ... or are you hoping to find an "off-the-shelf" course that you can just roll out with little or no preparation? ...

if you'll tell us the answers to these questions, then we can probably come up with some recommendations ...

The CD I`m talking about is a free demo. It has alot of basic stuff on it and you can`t beat the price.

hi

try checking out the www.thelearningpit.com

cheers

Try this fee book from Mr. PLC.com

Kwhitehead,
I taught the same course last fall, and my budget was $0. The most important thing is to know your subject. If you know it well, then teaching others should be easy and fun. You will need to make up some handouts, and there are plenty of free materials. I had only 3 studnets at a time and I say keep your class small, no more than 5 or 6 at a time so that they each have a computer and you have time to help each one. The most successful part of my course was sitting the students down in front of computers and having them do some hands-on programming. If you don't do that they will not learn very much. I made up some programming problems, with some already-done template programs that contained hidden "traps". Imagine the students surprise when they hit "RUN" and got all sorts of unexpected faults, just like in the real world! For example, on the AB SLC-503, I inserted 100 extra "NOP" rungs, then inserted a rung about 10 rungs before the END statement that turned on Output O:1/0. No matter what they did, that output was always on! I told them they had just killed a maintenance guy who had his head in the fan that started unexpectedly! Then we had fun finding and correcting the hidden bugs.

i will second the advice to check out thelearningpit.com
excellent learning tool for cheap dollars...