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TO MARS AND BEYOND What connects the red planet with the blue-and-orange zenon Academy? Why do we want to play weather gods on various planets in our Basic Training – Fundamentals course? And why did we create our own little solar system in the first place? Those of you who have already found their way to the zenon Academy will be familiar with our zenon Basic Training – Fundamentals course. Together, we build a tiny universe and monitor the weather on three planets. But why planets and not yet another classic plant setup? Who came up with this crazy idea? THE EDUCATION SERVICES TEAM We, the Education Services Team of COPA-DATA, approached this project from several different angles. We didn’t want to focus on just one particular industry. At the same time, we wanted to do something refreshingly new and interesting for everyone. Our goal was to create a course with a modular concept (more on that later) and give participants plenty of opportunities to experiment with zenon. We also wanted to put the focus on key features instead of overwhelming zenon newbies with everything everywhere all at once (great movie, bad training concept). And all while making sure the “fun” in fundamentals doesn’t get lost.
Thus, we created our Basic Training – Fundamentals course to show how simple and intuitive engineering can be with zenon. You don’t need programming skills to create fancy projects while taking advantage of virtually unlimited applicability across all industries and the high reusability of assets. Among many other things, we talk about powerful stuff like substitution. We also touch on security when we turn our focus to user administration. HELLO MARS “We tried walking that narrow path between showing too much or too little. zenon allows users the freedom to basically do anything they want, but for a newcomer this can be overwhelming,” reflects Helene Thurnhofer, Team Lead of Education Services. “Therefore, we developed our version of a simple ‘Hello World’ – or rather, ‘Hello Mars’ – example. It may not be the peak of humor but, hey, we try our best!” Once you are down with the basics, you can dive deeper into the zenon universe