Archestra Basics

Learn AVEVA System Platform the way it was meant to be understood: as a model of the plant, built once and reused everywhere.

More than 1,500 students learned ArchestrA from Charles Vance’s video course. Archestra Basics rebuilds that course from the ground up for AVEVA System Platform 2026, written by an engineer with thirty years in industrial automation who has been ArchestrA certified since 2008.

Working on a four-node lab galaxy, you build a complete system step by step:

Templates, instances, and derivation that scale

User-defined objects and reliable QuickScript scripts

OI Servers, I/O auto-assignment, alarms, and AVEVA Historian

Reusable Industrial Graphics and the Symbol Wizard

Managed InTouch applications and OMI ViewApps

Security, redundancy, backups, and troubleshooting with the new Diagnostics Manager

Twenty-five chapters, 125 diagrams, hands-on labs, a script quick reference, a glossary, and sourced references.

Written for control system engineers, integrators, and technicians who are new to System Platform or moving up from older Wonderware releases.