Training & Events
Applied Controls offers certified professional technical training, hands-on workshops, and seminars throughout the year at each of our office locations and online via our virtual classroom webinars. Browse our detailed full training course and workshop descriptions, view a complete list of upcoming training sessions and events on our schedule, or request to have a workshop scheduled near you.
March 26, 2026 • 8:00am – 3:00pm • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
HOSTED EVENT
Bringing Innovative Machine Vision Technologies to Light!
Hosted by Applied Controls & SICK
Join us for this FREE event to discuss and see the leaders in Vision Technology. Our Expo Day will feature industry experts who will be providing brief presentations, along with vision product demonstrations on the ease of use for products that fit your specific application needs.
Featuring Product Demos from:
- SICK
- Advanced Illumination
- CCS
- Edmund Optics
- Metaphase
- Midwest Optical Systems
April 1, 2026 • 10:00am – 3:00pm • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
WORKSHOP
New Way of Motion
Siemens invites you to a motion workshop! To compete in a global market, machine builders must deliver high-performance machines that are faster, more automated and more flexible – while meeting specific customer requirements and keeping design costs in check. Siemens’ new way of motion control offers the innovation, including an unprecedented level of integration, necessary for a sustainable competitive advantage.
Experience the tools and technology first hand
You’ll work live online with the TIA Portal – a single engineering framework for controllers, distributed I/O, HMI, drives, motion control, and motor management to provide unparalleled performance and results.
What will you learn?
This workshop will focus on the easy and efficient new solution we offer for motion control applications and is based on the SIMATIC S7-1500 Technology Controllers and the SINAMICS S210 servo drives.
Participants of the workshop will…
- Configure the drives, HMI, and motion controller with TIA Portal in simulation mode and also with hardware demo equipment.
- Program solutions from gearing to kinematic motion control with Technology Objects.
- Utilize trace functionality to validate and troubleshoot motion logics.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
You will be contacted via email with your confirmation once approved
April 8-9, 2026 • 9:00am – 5:00pm (2-Days) • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
TRAINING • 6 SEATS
Universal Robots Core Training
Key Take-Aways from this Course
- Manage the robot safely understanding safety concepts
- Build and optimize programs for several typical applications such as pick & place, palletizing, polishing or dispensing
- Connect and handle peripheral equipment, such as sensors, grippers or conveyor belts
- Know the online tools and resources available to help with application programming
Course Description
After the 2-day course, you will have hands-on experience with a UR robot. You will have programmed the robot several times to perform common tasks, including the operation of common peripherals (conveyors, sensors, grippers). You will be able to optimize a pick and place flow, perform palletization, understand safety concepts, and know the additional resources available to them both online and through other training courses. You will be ready to return to your own robot and create pick and place, palletization, and other common application programs on your own.
You must have completed the UR Academy free e-Learning Core Track before attending this training.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
Confirming Purchase Orders are required to Reserve Training Seats
April 15, 2026 • Delta Hotels by Marriott Allentown Lehigh Valley
TRADE SHOW
2026 Automation & Manufacturing Technology Show
Discover how manufacturers across the region are using automation, digital tools, and smart manufacturing strategies to improve safety, increase quality, strengthen delivery performance, and reduce operating costs. MRC’s Automation and Manufacturing Technology Show brings together proven technologies, real-world applications, and trusted solution providers in one highly focused half-day experience.
This year’s event features an improved layout with dedicated demonstration and speaker areas, making it easier to explore live technology, engage with experts, and learn from local manufacturers who are successfully implementing automation on their shop floors.
Join everyone on April 15, 2026 to gain practical insights, see working solutions in action, and build connections that help accelerate your next improvement initiative.
Where
Delta Hotels by Marriott Allentown Lehigh Valley (map)
7736 Adrienne Dr.
Breinigsville, PA 18031
April 22, 2026 • 9:00am – 4:00pm • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
WORKSHOP
SIMATIC WinCC Unified Workshop (Simulation based)
The future of visualization starts now!
SIMATIC WinCC Unified is a totally new visualization system you can use to overcome the challenges of visualizing machine or plant operation in today’s world of digitalization.
With the latest hardware, software, and web technologies, SIMATIC WinCC Unified offers proven engineering in the TIA Portal with the performance you need to implement your visualization solutions the way you imagine them!
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
You will be contacted via email with your confirmation once approved
April 28, 2026 • 8:30am – 4:30pm • Top Golf – Baltimore
HOSTED EVENT
Applied Controls hits the road this spring with the 2026 Tech Road Show in Baltimore!
Learn about the latest trends in automation, controls, machine vision, and robotics. See live demos, talk to application engineers, participate in free technical seminars, get answers to your tough application questions, and have some fun!
Featuring:
- Applied Controls Solutions
- Elettrotek Kabel
- Euchner
- Hilscher
- MurrPlastik
- Rittal
- SICK
- Siemens
- Universal Robots
- Werma
May 6, 2026 • 9:00am – 4:00pm • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
WORKSHOP
Fundamentals of Totally Integrated Automation with the TIA Portal
Join us for this in-depth, fast-paced instructor-led workshop conducted by a Certified Siemens Automation Specialist, and learn how to efficiently engineer an automation system solution using the TIA Portal.
What will you learn?
- The TIA Portal layout, engineering software packages, and how to create a project
- How to commission S7 hardware, including S7-1200 and S7-1500 PLCs with local and PROFINET remote IO
- Details of the S7 PLC memory structure and how to create a program using recommended best practices
- How to integrate a SINAMICS general purpose drive, commission it, and control it via the PLC as a motion axis
- How to integrate an HMI and transfer data, error reporting, system diagnostics, and user messages from the PLCs
- How to leverage the integrated project management and commissioning support tools
Hands-on: Experience the tools and technology
You’ll work live and online with the TIA Portal – a single engineering framework for controllers, distributed I/O, HMI, drives, motion control, and motor management to provide unparalleled performance and results.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
You will be contacted via email with your confirmation once approved
May 13-14, 2026 • 9:00am – 5:00pm (2-Days) • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
TRAINING • 6 SEATS
Universal Robots Core Training
Key Take-Aways from this Course
- Manage the robot safely understanding safety concepts
- Build and optimize programs for several typical applications such as pick & place, palletizing, polishing or dispensing
- Connect and handle peripheral equipment, such as sensors, grippers or conveyor belts
- Know the online tools and resources available to help with application programming
Course Description
After the 2-day course, you will have hands-on experience with a UR robot. You will have programmed the robot several times to perform common tasks, including the operation of common peripherals (conveyors, sensors, grippers). You will be able to optimize a pick and place flow, perform palletization, understand safety concepts, and know the additional resources available to them both online and through other training courses. You will be ready to return to your own robot and create pick and place, palletization, and other common application programs on your own.
You must have completed the UR Academy free e-Learning Core Track before attending this training.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
Confirming Purchase Orders are required to Reserve Training Seats
June 3, 2026 • 9:00am – 4:00pm • Applied Controls – Malvern Office9
WORKSHOP
IO-Link Workshop: Discover Opportunity with a New Technology
Are you looking for a new avenue to achieve consistent cost reduction, high plant availability, and transparency? This is it!
This offering is an open, standardized, and low-cost system for connecting actuators, sensors, and other field devices to the automation system. IO-Link provides systematic diagnostics and efficient handling of data at all levels. This seminar will discuss how IO-Link offers a more efficient way of controlling and monitoring motor starters and other common components inside of a control cabinet.
It will also demonstrate how IO-Link offers a much more efficient approach that can be easily implemented regardless of whose automation system is specified. Attend the IO-Link seminar to get training that includes:
- Hardware overview
- Software overview
- Customer application examples
- Hands On Labs to show how easy it is to create/test configurations
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
You will be contacted via email with your confirmation once approved
June 10-11, 2026 • 9:00am – 5:00pm (2-Days) • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
TRAINING • 6 SEATS
Universal Robots Core Training
Key Take-Aways from this Course
- Manage the robot safely understanding safety concepts
- Build and optimize programs for several typical applications such as pick & place, palletizing, polishing or dispensing
- Connect and handle peripheral equipment, such as sensors, grippers or conveyor belts
- Know the online tools and resources available to help with application programming
Course Description
After the 2-day course, you will have hands-on experience with a UR robot. You will have programmed the robot several times to perform common tasks, including the operation of common peripherals (conveyors, sensors, grippers). You will be able to optimize a pick and place flow, perform palletization, understand safety concepts, and know the additional resources available to them both online and through other training courses. You will be ready to return to your own robot and create pick and place, palletization, and other common application programs on your own.
You must have completed the UR Academy free e-Learning Core Track before attending this training.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
Confirming Purchase Orders are required to Reserve Training Seats
July 8-9, 2026 • 9:00am – 5:00pm (2-Days) • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
TRAINING • 6 SEATS
Universal Robots Core Training
Key Take-Aways from this Course
- Manage the robot safely understanding safety concepts
- Build and optimize programs for several typical applications such as pick & place, palletizing, polishing or dispensing
- Connect and handle peripheral equipment, such as sensors, grippers or conveyor belts
- Know the online tools and resources available to help with application programming
Course Description
After the 2-day course, you will have hands-on experience with a UR robot. You will have programmed the robot several times to perform common tasks, including the operation of common peripherals (conveyors, sensors, grippers). You will be able to optimize a pick and place flow, perform palletization, understand safety concepts, and know the additional resources available to them both online and through other training courses. You will be ready to return to your own robot and create pick and place, palletization, and other common application programs on your own.
You must have completed the UR Academy free e-Learning Core Track before attending this training.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
Confirming Purchase Orders are required to Reserve Training Seats
August 12-13, 2026 • 9:00am – 5:00pm (2-Days) • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
TRAINING • 6 SEATS
Universal Robots Core Training
Key Take-Aways from this Course
- Manage the robot safely understanding safety concepts
- Build and optimize programs for several typical applications such as pick & place, palletizing, polishing or dispensing
- Connect and handle peripheral equipment, such as sensors, grippers or conveyor belts
- Know the online tools and resources available to help with application programming
Course Description
After the 2-day course, you will have hands-on experience with a UR robot. You will have programmed the robot several times to perform common tasks, including the operation of common peripherals (conveyors, sensors, grippers). You will be able to optimize a pick and place flow, perform palletization, understand safety concepts, and know the additional resources available to them both online and through other training courses. You will be ready to return to your own robot and create pick and place, palletization, and other common application programs on your own.
You must have completed the UR Academy free e-Learning Core Track before attending this training.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
Confirming Purchase Orders are required to Reserve Training Seats
September 2, 2026 • 9:00am – 4:00pm • Applied Controls – Malvern Office9
WORKSHOP
SIMATIC WinCC Unified Workshop (Simulation based)
The future of visualization starts now!
SIMATIC WinCC Unified is a totally new visualization system you can use to overcome the challenges of visualizing machine or plant operation in today’s world of digitalization.
With the latest hardware, software, and web technologies, SIMATIC WinCC Unified offers proven engineering in the TIA Portal with the performance you need to implement your visualization solutions the way you imagine them!
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
You will be contacted via email with your confirmation once approved
September 9-10, 2026 • 9:00am – 5:00pm (2-Days) • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
TRAINING • 6 SEATS
Universal Robots Core Training
Key Take-Aways from this Course
- Manage the robot safely understanding safety concepts
- Build and optimize programs for several typical applications such as pick & place, palletizing, polishing or dispensing
- Connect and handle peripheral equipment, such as sensors, grippers or conveyor belts
- Know the online tools and resources available to help with application programming
Course Description
After the 2-day course, you will have hands-on experience with a UR robot. You will have programmed the robot several times to perform common tasks, including the operation of common peripherals (conveyors, sensors, grippers). You will be able to optimize a pick and place flow, perform palletization, understand safety concepts, and know the additional resources available to them both online and through other training courses. You will be ready to return to your own robot and create pick and place, palletization, and other common application programs on your own.
You must have completed the UR Academy free e-Learning Core Track before attending this training.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
Confirming Purchase Orders are required to Reserve Training Seats
September 30 – October 1, 2026 • 9:00am – 5:00pm (2-Days) • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
TRAINING • 6 SEATS
Universal Robots Core Training
Key Take-Aways from this Course
- Manage the robot safely understanding safety concepts
- Build and optimize programs for several typical applications such as pick & place, palletizing, polishing or dispensing
- Connect and handle peripheral equipment, such as sensors, grippers or conveyor belts
- Know the online tools and resources available to help with application programming
Course Description
After the 2-day course, you will have hands-on experience with a UR robot. You will have programmed the robot several times to perform common tasks, including the operation of common peripherals (conveyors, sensors, grippers). You will be able to optimize a pick and place flow, perform palletization, understand safety concepts, and know the additional resources available to them both online and through other training courses. You will be ready to return to your own robot and create pick and place, palletization, and other common application programs on your own.
You must have completed the UR Academy free e-Learning Core Track before attending this training.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
Confirming Purchase Orders are required to Reserve Training Seats
October 28, 2026 • 9:00am – 4:00pm • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
WORKSHOP
Fundamentals of Totally Integrated Automation with the TIA Portal
Join us for this in-depth, fast-paced instructor-led workshop conducted by a Certified Siemens Automation Specialist, and learn how to efficiently engineer an automation system solution using the TIA Portal.
What will you learn?
- The TIA Portal layout, engineering software packages, and how to create a project
- How to commission S7 hardware, including S7-1200 and S7-1500 PLCs with local and PROFINET remote IO
- Details of the S7 PLC memory structure and how to create a program using recommended best practices
- How to integrate a SINAMICS general purpose drive, commission it, and control it via the PLC as a motion axis
- How to integrate an HMI and transfer data, error reporting, system diagnostics, and user messages from the PLCs
- How to leverage the integrated project management and commissioning support tools
Hands-on: Experience the tools and technology
You’ll work live and online with the TIA Portal – a single engineering framework for controllers, distributed I/O, HMI, drives, motion control, and motor management to provide unparalleled performance and results.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
You will be contacted via email with your confirmation once approved
November 11-12, 2026 • 9:00am – 5:00pm (2-Days) • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
TRAINING • 6 SEATS
Universal Robots Core Training
Key Take-Aways from this Course
- Manage the robot safely understanding safety concepts
- Build and optimize programs for several typical applications such as pick & place, palletizing, polishing or dispensing
- Connect and handle peripheral equipment, such as sensors, grippers or conveyor belts
- Know the online tools and resources available to help with application programming
Course Description
After the 2-day course, you will have hands-on experience with a UR robot. You will have programmed the robot several times to perform common tasks, including the operation of common peripherals (conveyors, sensors, grippers). You will be able to optimize a pick and place flow, perform palletization, understand safety concepts, and know the additional resources available to them both online and through other training courses. You will be ready to return to your own robot and create pick and place, palletization, and other common application programs on your own.
You must have completed the UR Academy free e-Learning Core Track before attending this training.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
Confirming Purchase Orders are required to Reserve Training Seats
December 9-10, 2026 • 9:00am – 5:00pm (2-Days) • Applied Controls – Malvern Office
TRAINING • 6 SEATS
Universal Robots Core Training
Key Take-Aways from this Course
- Manage the robot safely understanding safety concepts
- Build and optimize programs for several typical applications such as pick & place, palletizing, polishing or dispensing
- Connect and handle peripheral equipment, such as sensors, grippers or conveyor belts
- Know the online tools and resources available to help with application programming
Course Description
After the 2-day course, you will have hands-on experience with a UR robot. You will have programmed the robot several times to perform common tasks, including the operation of common peripherals (conveyors, sensors, grippers). You will be able to optimize a pick and place flow, perform palletization, understand safety concepts, and know the additional resources available to them both online and through other training courses. You will be ready to return to your own robot and create pick and place, palletization, and other common application programs on your own.
You must have completed the UR Academy free e-Learning Core Track before attending this training.
Where
Applied Controls – Malvern Office (map)
47 General Warren Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
REGISTER
Confirming Purchase Orders are required to Reserve Training Seats