Virtual Enablement Courses

Virtual Enablement Courses

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These virtually conducted enablement courses are designed to be interactive and guided by an instructor. You will have enough time during the course to apply the theory you have learned in practice.

SCADA Virtual Enablement Courses

Command Sequencing

The Command Sequencing language is specifically designed to be used with Survalent SCADA systems. The programming environment uses database points as variables. Command sequence programs can be used for calculations, open-loop control sequences or for closed-loop control. In this session, we review and expand on concepts covered in the SurvalentONE SCADA System Level 1 and Level 2 training courses.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDHs.

Objective: The Command Sequencing enablement course provides you with a step-by-step guide to:

  • Employing variables
  • Creating branches and loops.
  • Returning Values
  • Defining Arrays
  • Creating Templates.

Target Audience: Engineering, System Administrators, and Management Teams.

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Experience or SurvalentONE SCADA System Level 1 Training of SmartVU and STC Explorer

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

Course Course Dates Location Start Time Course Information
Command Sequencing March 15, 2024 Virtual 10:00 a.m. ET Registration closed

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IED Wizard and Control Panel

The IED Wizard and Control Panel enablement course provides you with the skills required to install IEDs into your system from pre-existing or newly created templates. The Control Panel section of the course provides you with the skills required to install Control Panels into your system from pre-existing or newly created templates.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDHs.

Objective: The IED Wizard and Control Panel enablement course walks you through the following:

  • Downloading IED Wizard templates
  • Installing IEDs into SCADA
  • Updating templates
  • Learning how to decipher point field information
  • Downloading control panel templates
  • Installing control panels into SmartVU
  • Editing control panels
  • Creating your own control panels
  • Creating template PMacros

Target Audience: SCADA Administrator, System Administrator

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Basic knowledge of SurvalentONE SCADA

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

Course Course Dates Location Start Time Course Information
IED Wizard and Control Panel July 17, 2025 Virtual 10:00 a.m. ET Register or View Course Details

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SCADA Administration and Security

The SCADA Administration and Security enablement course provides you with the strategy to effectively secure your SCADA system

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDHs.

Objective: The SCADA Administration and Security enablement course provides you with the features that can be administered to ensure your system is as secure as possible.

  • Groups & User Policies
  • Logging events
  • Using Zones & Stronger Passwords
  • Securing Remote & Local Users
  • Lock down procedures

Target Audience: Administrators, IT staff, Managers, individuals responsible for securing the SCADA system

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: None

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

Course Course Dates Location Start Time Course Information
SCADA Administration and Security March 1, 2024 Virtual 10:00 a.m. ET Registration closed

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SCADA for Operators

The SCADA for Operators course is designed for individuals who will be responsible for operating the ADMS-SCADA System. It will give an overview of Survalent SmartVU, the options available as well as the different types of methods to access information when required.
Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDHs.
Objectives:
  • ADMS-SCADA System overview
  • Display and view navigation
  • Layers and Visualization
  • Trend graph displays
  • Alarm Management (Views, Priorities, Annunciation, Acknowledge)
  • Annotation
  • Status and Analog Point Viewers.
  • Reports
  • Tagging

Target Audience: Control Room Operators

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: General understanding of SmartVU

Duration: 4 hours

Course Fee: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

Course Course Dates Location Start Time Course Information
SCADA for Operators April 17, 2025 Virtual 10:00 a.m. ET Register or View Course Details

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SCADA Refresher

Need to know the essentials of your SCADA software in a short amount of time? Want to get a taste of the newest features recently released in a fun, interactive way? Come take our SCADA System Refresher Course! This hands-on training course is a two-day immersive version of the standard training SCADA System Level 1 course. Learn all the important aspects of STC Explorer and SmartVu as well as the tactics that will have you coming back for more! You will have the software loaded onto a Virtual Machine so you can follow along with instructors in the development of an ADMS database, graphics, and reports.

Upon successful completion, students earn 16 PDHs.

Objective:

  • Learn to navigate Survalent’s Support Site and Install Software
  • Set Up Users, Groups, Zones, Point Types, and State Strings, Alarm Parameters
  • Create a map, add elements and import elements including CAD files
  • Create Symbols, Color Tables, and Fonts
  • Create and Configure Communication Lines and RTUs in SCADA Explorer
  • Create and Configure Status and Analog Points
  • Create and Configure PMacros (Status, Analog, Push Button PMacros)
  • Complete a Station Single Line Diagram
  • Use IED Wizard Templates to Install Primary and Secondary IED’s, rename points and generate points on Excel
  • Import, Install and Configure Control Panels
  • Set up Sustained and Momentary Alarms
  • Create Reports, Automation Templates, Command Sequences, and Control Groups

Target Audience:

  • Operators
  • Control Room Admin
  • Engineers
  • Database Admins
  • System Administrators
  • Management Teams
  • Supervisors

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Existing Survalent customers with any previous Survalent training

Duration: 16 hours (2 days)

Price: $1,000 USD per student

Course Course Dates Location Start Time Course Information
SCADA Refresher February 12-13, 2025 Virtual 8:00 a.m. ET Register or View Course Details

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SCADA Reports

The SCADA Reports enablement course provides you with the skills to create Historical, Operational, Event, Tag, and Generic SCADA reports

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDHs.

Objective: The SCADA Reports enablement course provides you with a step-by-step guide to:

  • Creating a variety of reports
  • Learning how to read tables and fields
  • Scheduling reports
  • Outputting reports

Target Audience: Individuals that need to create reports from SCADA

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Existing Survalent customers currently using STC Explorer

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

Course Course Dates Location Start Time Course Information
SCADA Reports January 16, 2025 Virtual 10:00 a.m. ET Register or View Course Details

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SCADA Tips & Best Practices

The SCADA Tips & Best Practices course enables Operations Teams to be current on all the latest and classical tactics designed to make it easier to get the information they need from Survalent software.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDHs.

Objective: The SCADA Tips & Best Practices enablement course walks you through:

  • Tips exclusive to our latest software release
  • Using Menus with PMacros
  • Value Before Fault
  • Anti-Chatter
  • Customer Configurations

Target Audience: System Administrators and Management Teams

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Working knowledge of SmartVU

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

Course Course Dates Location Start Time Course Information
SCADA Tips & Best Practices May 15, 2025 Virtual 10:00 a.m. ET Register or View Course Details

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SmartVU Editor

The SmartVU Editor enablement course provides you with an overview of the processes and tools available for developing and optimizing maps.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDHs.

Objective: The SmartVU Editor enablement course provides you with a step-by-step guide to:

  • Creating graphics
  • Importing graphics
  • Setting up reservations
  • Drawing symbols
  • Optimizing Pmacros

Target Audience: Individuals responsible for editing and creating maps

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Experience working with SmartVU

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

Course Course Dates Location Start Time Course Information
SmartVU Editor August 14, 2025 Virtual 10:00 a.m. ET Register or View Course Details

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OMS Virtual Enablement Courses

OMS Call Handler

The SurvalentONE OMS is a complete suite of applications that empowers utilities to efficiently track outages, reduce outage downtime, and proactively and safely guide field crews during restoration activities. The focus of this course is on how processing Outage and Non-Outage Calls using the OMS Call Handler, which serves as a bridge between the Customer Service Team and System Controllers and Dispatchers, enables simplified, seamless communication, swift resolutions, and exceptional customer service.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDH.

Objective: The OMS Call Handler for Customer Service Representatives course walks you through the following key topics:

  • Getting acquainted with the OMS Call Handler
  • Entering outage calls
  • Entering non-outa
  • Call Handler Use Cases

Target Audience: Call Center Representatives

Hands On: No

Pre-Requisite: Basic knowledge of SurvalentONE SCADA

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

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OMS Polaris

The SurvalentONE OMS is a complete suite of applications that empowers utilities to efficiently track outages, reduce outage downtime, and proactively and safely guide field crews during restoration activities. Polaris allows utility employees to view the location and status of outages as well as their associated service and emergency tickets, specify the materials used in a job and track the time needed to complete it, and create damage reports. The focus of this course is on enabling you to efficiently work with Polaris and learn how OMS Polaris integrates into your daily job responsibilities, makes it safer to do your work, gives you more autonomy to do your work, and enables you to help your operators provide accurate information to the public. This course will incorporate use cases to provide learners with a realistic experience of the Polaris application and its common uses.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDH.

Objective: The OMS Polaris enablement course walks you through the following key topics:

  • Introduction to Polaris
  • Terminology and workflow for Field Crew
  • Outage use case exercises
  • Service and emergency ticket use case exercises
  • Damage report use case exercises

Target Audience: Field Crew Managers, Field Crew Personnel

Hands On: No

Pre-Requisite: Basic knowledge of SurvalentONE SCADA

Duration: 8 hours

Price: $500 USD per student, minimum 10 students

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OMS Applications

The SurvalentONE OMS is a complete suite of applications that empowers utilities to efficiently track outages, reduce outage downtime, and proactively and safely guide field crews during restoration activities. The focus of this course is on 5 applications that work with OMS – Outage Portal, Call Handler, Dashboard (Mobile/Desktop), Dashboard (Lobby), and Polaris.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDH.

Objective: The OMS Applications enablement course walks you through configuring and using:

  • Outage Portal
  • Call Handler
  • Dashboard (Mobile/Desktop)
  • Dashboard (Lobby)
  • Polaris

Target Audience: Engineering, Operation, System Administrators, and Management Teams

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Experience or SurvalentONE SCADA System Level 1 Training of SmartVU, STC Explorer, and Topology Processing

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

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OMS for Administrators

The SurvalentONE OMS is a complete suite of applications that empowers utilities to efficiently track outages, reduce outage downtime, and proactively and safely guide field crews during restoration activities. The focus of this course is on the many ways OMS can be configured in Applications/OMS located in STC Explorer.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDH.

Objective: The OMS for Administrators course walks you through how to:

  • Configure Call Analysis
  • Create and edit Issues and Causes
  • Create and Edit Crews and Schedules
  • Set Up Major Event Days and Damage Reports

Target Audience: Engineering, System Administrators, and Management Teams

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Experience or SurvalentONE SCADA System Level 1 Training of SmartVU, STC Explorer, and Topology Processing

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

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OMS for Operators

The SurvalentONE OMS is a complete suite of applications that empowers utilities to efficiently track outages, reduce outage downtime, and proactively and safely guide field crews during restoration activities. The focus of this course is on how the Operations team will use OMS within the SmartVU interface.

Upon successful completion, students earn 16 PDHs.

Objective: The OMS for Operators enablement course walks you through how to:

  • Entering Outage and Service Calls
  • Working with Call Analysis
  • Creating Planned Outages
  • Verifying Outages
  • Creating Jobs

Target Audience: Operations teams

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Experience or SurvalentONE SCADA System Level 1 Training of SmartVU

Duration: 16 hours (2 days)

Price: $1000 USD per student, minimum 10 students

Course Course Dates Location Start Time Course Information
OMS for Operators December 10-11, 2025 Virtual 8:00 a.m. ET Register or View Course Details

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DMS Virtual Enablement Courses

Distribution Power Flow & Distribution State Estimation

Distribution Power Flow & Distribution State Estimation enablement course provides you with an overview of how to configure network elements, set up the DMS (Distribution Management System) catalogs and alarms, and run reports and studies.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDH.

Objective: The Distribution Power Flow & Distribution State Estimation enablement course walks you through how to:

  • Configuring network elements
  • Setting up the DMS (Distribution Management System) catalogs which includes constructions, compositions, and environment factors.
  • Setting up Alarms
  • Running Reports and Studies
  • Configurating Upstream Elements (DPE)

Target Audience: Engineering, Operation, System Administrators, and Management Teams.

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Experience or Level 1 Training of SmartVU, STC Explorer, and Topology Processing.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

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Dynamic Voltage Regulation (DVR)

Dynamic Voltage Regulation (DVR) provides capabilities for reducing peak demand and management of optimal feeder voltage limits. It is designed to operate automatically and adjust the voltage regulator set points and/or transformer tap positions to maintain a voltage profile that is within the objective limits without the need for complex programming by the utilities.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDH.

Objective: The Dynamic Voltage Regulation enablement course walks you through how to:

  • Prepare DVR Groups using STC Explorer
  • Configure Regulator Behavior
  • Choosing the Objective
  • Create SmartVU PMacros for DVR
  • View DVR Outputs – Reports

Target Audience: System Admin, Operations, Engineering, and Management Teams

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Experience or SurvalentONE SCADA System Level 1 Training of SmartVU and STC

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

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Fault Location Isolation & Service Restoration (FLISR)

The FLISR enablement course gives you the opportunity to interact with a FLISR map. You will edit a database, a map, and topological elements and then run some FLISR scenarios. You will also set up the necessary reports and switch orders for a FLISR environment.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDH.

Objective: The FLISR enablement course provides Utility Professionals with “hands on” experience so they can:

  • Edit or Troubleshoot a system that has been upgraded to FLISR.
  • Simulate FLISR events.
  • Set up the necessary Switch Orders and Reports.

Target Audience: Operations Professionals desiring a solution that will minimize the downtime caused by outages that trip and lock out devices in a distribution network.

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Experience working with STC Explorer, SmartVU, and Topology Processing is highly recommended.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

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Volt/Var Optimization (VVO)

VVO improves energy efficiency in the distribution system by reducing both energy losses and peak demand. It coordinates control of reactive power and voltage, to optimize user objectives subject to defined constraints. VVO performs optimization and issues controls at both the substation and feeder level.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDH.

Objective: The Volt/Var Optimization enablement course walks you through how to:

  • Configuring Topology Processing for VVO
  • Set up DMS Catalogs
  • Add VVO elements to the database using STC Explorer
  • Create PMacros for VVO using STC Explorer
  • View VVO Reports

Target Audience: System Admin, Operations, Engineering, and Management Teams

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Experience or SurvalentONE SCADA System Level 1 Training of SmartVU, STC Explorer, and Topology Processing

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

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Advanced Applications Virtual Enablement Courses

GIS Wizard Implementation

The GIS Wizard Implementation enablement course provides you with an overview of how Survalent’s GIS Wizard can move your GIS information (GDB) from ESRI to your Survalent database and map.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDH.

Objective: The GIS Wizard Implementation enablement course provides Utility Professionals with “hands on experience” so they can:

  • Prepare GIS information for the GIS Wizard.
  • Use GIS Wizard to convert the GIS Information into Survalent compliant tables that will be held by SQL Server.
  • Move the data from SQL Server to Survalent’s import applications for refinement and importing.

Target Audience: GIS, IT, Network and Operations Professionals.

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Experience working with STC Explorer, SmartVU, and Topology Processing is highly recommended.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

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Project Development System (PDS)

The Project Development System enablement course gives you the opportunity to create and publish a project using Survalent PDS. You will learn how to reserve database, map, and topological elements so they can be edited, published, and tracked. PDS will allow you and your team to work on simultaneous projects without impacting each other or the production environment.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDH.

Objective: The Project Development System enablement course provides Utility Professionals “hands on” experience so they can:

  • Reserve database, map, and topological elements using PDS.
  • Make changes to elements using guided steps in a development system.
  • Publish changes to a production system.

Target Audience: Operations, Network, and IT Professionals desiring a solution that will enable them to test, save, and safely deploy changes to their database, graphics, and topological elements.

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Experience working with STC Explorer, SmartVU, and Topology Processing is highly recommended.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

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Topology Processor

The Topology Processor enablement course provides you with the skills required to create, edit & troubleshoot line sections.

Upon successful completion, students earn 4 PDH.

Objective: The Topology Processor enablement course provides you with a step-by-step guide to:

  • Recognizing choices available in designing the line sections
  • Applying line sections to a substation
  • Extending the line sections to the feeder
  • Using tools to troubleshoot

Target Audience: Individuals interested in adding topology processing to their maps

Hands On: Yes, via a virtual environment

Pre-Requisite: Working knowledge of SmartVU

Duration: 4 hours

Price: $250 USD per student, minimum 10 students

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