Maintenance seminar at the customer's premises - view of the seminar room
Operative and strategic seminars - our experts at your site

Seminars for Maintenance Personnel, On-Site at Your Location

  • Tailored training adapted to your needs
  • Reduce travel costs and staff absences
  • Training in a familiar environment without disrupting operations
  • No long journeys; your team stays productive on-site
  • Practical exercises can also be carried out directly on your equipment 
View of the fully occupied seminar room at the Eichler Seminar on Life Cycle and Repair Management

Life Cycle and Obsolescence Management

The maintenance seminar highlights the importance of a well-thought-out service strategy and explains how to develop one. It also demonstrates how to ensure reliable plant availability and fast response times.

Participant in the Simatic S5 compact seminar sits in front of a training rack

SIMATIC S5 – System Handling and Troubleshooting COMPACT

The new COMPACT SIMATIC® S5 seminar provides valuable foundational knowledge over the course of three days, covering assemblies, areas of applications, and special features - alongside practical experience in handling malfunctions.

Training instructors and participants discuss the fault finder rack at a Simatic S7 seminar held by Eichler.

SIMATIC S7 COMPACT - Basic knowledge, system handling, troubleshooting

The 3-day seminar supports maintenance personnel in developing and implementing efficient measures for fault diagnosis, troubleshooting, and system restart within the system. Participants train their skills using a virtual S7 system.

Participants solve problems on a flipchart at a Simatic Tia Portal seminar held by Eichler.

TIA Portal Expert Knowledge I – Transition/ Migration from STEP7

In this seminar, we teach you how to configure and program a PLC control system using the TIA Portal V19 engineering platform, as well as how to commission the control system and diagnose faults. The goal is to migrate existing software or a STEp7 project to the new TIA Portal engineering platform.

Maintenance technicians perform troubleshooting on a training rack at Eichler's Simatic TIA Portal seminar.

TIA-Portal Expert Knowlege II – System Retrofit and Troubleshooting

This seminar provides knowledge and skills beyond the basics, equipping participants to modify existing production systems. The focus is on physically implemented retrofit measures using a custom-developed system model created in-house for this purpose.

Eichler Simatic S7 seminar leader holds a module in his hand and points to it with a pen
Customer enquiry

In your enquiry, please let us know the desired semnar format, the number of participants, and any specific topics you would like to cover.

Individual offer

Based on the information you provide. we will prepare a detailed, tailored offer including all relevant information and requirements for the requested seminar.

Appointment confirmation and order placement

We will coordinate the date for the seminar together. Once all framework conditions have been agreed, we will send you the order confirmation.

Seminar delivery

We will bring the necessary seminar equipment and deliver the requested seminar on your premises.

Issuing of certificates

The seminar concludes with the issuing of official certificates of attendance to your participants.

Seminar evaluation

Following the event, participants will provide their feedback. We will then discuss the results with you in a final review meeting.

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Portrait of Eichler seminar leader Siemens Simatic S5 training Dietmar Ignorek

The hardest and most bitter path to success is the one through experience – it remains a valuable and irreplaceable asset in everything.

Dipl.-Ing. Dietmar Ignorek, Head of SIMATIC S5 Professional Seminars

Portrait of Eichler seminar leader Siemens Simatic S5 training Dietmar Ignorek
Dipl.-Ing. Dietmar Ignorek

He has over 30 years of experience in the programming of control and automation technology. As a seminar leader, he supervises the technical seminars for SIMATIC® S5 and S7.

Experience & engagement
  • Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering and System Construction
  • Managing Director at DIAS - Engineering Office for Automation and Process Design
  • Experience in connecting control systems with IBM and PCS7 systems
  • PLC Programmer for system and machinery construction with STEP5
  • PLC Programmer for system and machinery construction with STEP7
  • Over 30 years of industry experience, including more than 10 years as a trainer
Portrait of eichler seminar leader Rainer Weber

The combination of modern training methods and fault simulations on real system hardware maximizes learning success. Through practical case studies, real value is created for your team.

Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Weber, Head of SIMATIC S7 Professional Seminars, EICHLER GmbH

Portrait of eichler seminar leader Rainer Weber
Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Weber

Since the beginning of 2024, he has been working as a technical seminar leader at EICHLER. He has many years of experience in electrical and automation technology as well as software programming.

Experience & engagement
  • Energy Systems Electronics Technician
  • Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineering / Automation Technology
  • 12 years of software programming and commissioning of automation systems (worldwide)
  • 10 years of project management in automation technology
  • 4 years as a lecturer in electrical engineering and automation technology
  • Since 2022, member of the examination board for Mechatronics at the IHK Schwaben
Training room at the Eichler onsite seminar at Zott in Günzburg
Successful On-Site Seminar at the Zott Dairy in Günzburg
Maintenance technicians working on the fault simulation rack at Simatic S5 compact seminar
Successful SIMATIC S5 Seminar at the Atomic Power Plant in Philippsburg (KKP)
Eichler training manager explains obsolescence to participants
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