Van Excel naar Grip

From Zero to Hero in OT Data Engineering

For engineers who aren't programmers — but want to build it themselves. 10 phases, one certification, complete transformation.

Is This You?

This program is built for one specific person:

Meet Richard

45 years old, works at a utility plant. Has been in operations for 20 years. Knows the process inside out but never wrote a line of code. Frustrated with Excel chaos and expensive vendor tools. Wants to build something better — but doesn't know where to start.

Plant engineer, OT specialist, or operations manager

Stuck with Excel, manual processes, and vendor lock-in

Wants to build their own monitoring platform

"I'm not a programmer"

You don't need to be — AI changes everything

Your Transformation

Before

After

Excel/VBA chaos

Central monitoring platform

Multiple vendor systems, no overview

One platform connecting everything

Knowledge in people's heads

Knowledge captured in vector database

Manual data retyping

Automated data collection

No lessons learned system

Working system that's actually used

Expensive licenses (€70K+/yr)

Open source stack, self-maintainable

Firefighting mode

Strategic steering + proactive

Vendor lock-in

Full control — you own everything

The 10-Phase Curriculum

Core Track (Week 1-9) gets you productive. Advanced Track (Week 10-16) makes you exceptional.

Core Track

Foundation

Week 1-2

Python, SQL, Claude Code, Networking

Connect

Week 3-4

APIs, OPC-UA, Vendor Migration Paths

Collect

Week 4

OPC Deep Dive, Database, Schedulers

Visualize

Week 5-6

Grafana, Prometheus, Next.js

Automate

Week 6-7

Alerting, Reports, N8N Workflows

Build

Week 8-9

Web Apps, APIs, Webscraping, Docs

Advanced Track

Integrate (UNS)

Week 10-11

MQTT, Event-Driven, Unified Namespace

Understand (AI)

Week 12-13

Anomaly Detection, Predictive, CV

Structure

Week 14

Knowledge Graphs, Neo4j, Plant Ontology

Orchestrate

Week 15-16

AI Agent with LangChain + Claude

Quick Wins — Week 1

Your first Python script runs successfully

SQL queries pulling real data

Claude Code writing code for you

OT/IT pyramid understood

Grafana running on your laptop

Vendor Deep Dives

Specific migration paths for the platforms you're actually using:

Aspentech IP.21

Data extraction via SQLplus, REST API, Python. Migration to open source time series DB.

Wonderware / AVEVA

Historian OLEDB, ArchestrA integration. Galaxy migration, parallel dashboard approach.

OSIsoft PI

PI Web API, Asset Framework, PI SDK. Data export to InfluxDB/TimescaleDB.

Practical Exam: 55 Steps

Build your own intelligent plant platform from scratch. 12 phases, real deliverables, portfolio-ready.

1Data Inventory

2Data Connection

3Vendor Migration

4Data Storage

5Dashboard

6Alerting & Automation

7Documentation

8Web-App & API

9Unified Namespace

10Industrial AI

11Knowledge Graph

12AI Agent & Presentation

Certified OT Data & AI Integration Engineer

Earn a verifiable certification that proves your competence in OT/IT data integration, vendor migration, UNS, industrial AI, and AI agent development.

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