Workforce development courses in the Excellence Training Center
Upcoming Class Schedule
- Additive Manufacturing- FDM
Three, five hour days (15 hours total)
Cost $1000
Objectives
Additive Manufacturing – FDM is an introductory course for 3D printing. This course is designed under the assumption that students are new to 3D printing.
After completing this course, students should be able to perform the following tasks:
- Run basic FDM printers
- Trouble shoot errors that arise when printing parts on FDM printers
- Create CAD drawings specifically for 3D printing
- Know the different types of 3D printing and when each would be used
- Know different types of FDM printers and when each would be used
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How to create a print file
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Know about different file types for 3D printing and each of their pros and cons
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How to use Solidworks to create designs
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How to use Meshmixer
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Know about different materials that can be used for FDM
Course Delivery
The course consists of a mixture of in person lectures and hands-on exercises designed to teach students how to operate FDM machines, design for 3D printing and post processing.
Prerequisites
None
- Additive Manufacturing- (Metal) Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Four, five hour days (20 hours total)
Cost: $2,000
Objectives
Additive Manufacturing – Laser Powder Bed Fusion is an advanced course for 3D printing. This course is designed under the assumption that students have worked with 3D printers and with design software in the past.
After completing this course, students should be able to perform the following tasks:
- Run basic metal laser powder bed fusion printers
- Know safety guidelines for these printers
- Know design constraints for these printers
- Know the different types of 3D printing and applications for each type specifically focusing on laser powder bed fusion.
- Know good practices for laser powder bed fusion
- Know about different materials that can be used for laser powder bed fusion and their uses.
- Know different post processing techniques
- Know about different defects that can occur while printing and how to fix them.
Course Delivery
The course consists of a mixture of lecture and hands-on exercises designed to teach students how to operate laser powder bed fusion machines and gain an understanding of everything that goes into them.
Prerequisites
Additive Manufacturing- FDM
- Additive Manufacturing- Vat Photopolymerization
Two, five hour days (10 hours total)
Cost $750
Objectives
Additive Manufacturing – Vat Photopolymerization is an advanced course for 3D printing. This course is designed under the assumption that students have taken our Additive Manufacturing- FDM course.
After completing this course, students should be able to perform the following tasks:
- Operate Vat Photopolymerization machines
- Demonstrate safety practices when using these machines
- Troubleshoot errors that arise when printing parts
- Understand the different types of Vat Photopolymerization processes and what they are used for
- Demonstrate design, build, and post processing practices for Vat Photopolymerization additive manufacturing.
- Recognize different materials that can be used in Vat Photopolymerization
- Perform basic maintenance on these machines
Course Delivery
The course consists of a mixture of in person lectures and hands-on exercises designed to teach students how to operate Vat Photopolymerization machines and gain an understanding of every part of the process.
Prerequisites
- Additive Manufacturing- FDM
- OSHA 10-Hour General Industry
This training program is intended to provide entry level general industry workers information about their rights, employer responsibilities, and how to file a complaint as well as how to identify, abate, avoid and prevent job related hazards on a job site. The training covers a variety of general industry safety and health hazards which a worker may encounter at a work site. Training will emphasize hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention. Instructional time is a minimum of 10 hours.
The topics covered in this course are shown below.
- Mandatory – 6 hours
- Introduction to OSHA – 1 hour
Covers workers' rights, employer responsibilities and how to file a complaint. It includes helpful worker safety and health resources. It also provides samples of a weekly fatality and catastrophe report, safety data sheet and the OSHA Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses (OSHA form 300) - Walking and Working Surfaces, including fall protection – 1 hour
- Exit Routes, Emergency Action Plans, Fire Prevention Plans, and Fire Protection – 1 hour
- Electrical – 1 hour
- Personal Protective Equipment – 1 hour
- Hazard Communication – 1 hour
- Introduction to OSHA – 1 hour
- Elective-remaining hours will be chosen from the following subject areas (class dependent)
- Hazardous Materials
- Materials Handling
- Machine Guarding
- Introduction to Industrial Hygiene
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- Ergonomics
- Safety and Health Program
- Fall Protection
- Other general industry hazards or policies
Successful completion of this class will result in an OSHA 10 card.
The Instructor for this course is OSHA authorized.
Cost: $150
- OSHA 10-Hour Construction
This training program is intended to provide general awareness for entry-level construction workers. The training program covers recognizing and preventing hazards on a construction site.
OHSA.com recommends Safety Certification courses. These courses serve as an orientation to occupational safety and health for workers covered by OSHA 29 CFR 1926. Workers must receive additional training on specific hazards of the job when required by OSHA standard.
The topics covered in this course are shown below.
- Module 1: Introduction to OSHA
- Module 2: OSHA Focus Four Hazards
- Module 3: Personal Protective Equipment
- Module 4: Health Hazards in Construction
- Module 5: Stairways and Ladders
- Module 6: Cranes, Derricks, Hoists, Elevators and Conveyors
- Module 7: Excavations
- Module 8: Materials Handling, Use and Disposal
- Module 9: Scaffolds
- Module 10: Tools ‐ Hand and Power
Successful completion of this class will result in an OSHA 10 card.
The Instructor for this course is OSHA authorized.
Cost: $150
- OSHA 30-Hour General Industry
Cost $495
The 30-hour General Industry OSHA Outreach Training Program is intended to provide a variety of training to workers with some safety responsibility. Training emphasizes hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention. Instructional time will be a minimum of 30 hours.
The topics covered in this course are shown below.
1. Mandatory – 12 hours
a) Introduction to OSHA – 1 hour
Covers workers' rights, employer responsibilities and how to file a complaint. It includes helpful worker safety and health resources. It also provides samples of a weekly fatality and catastrophe report, safety data sheet and the OSHA Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses (OSHA form 300).
b) Managing Safety and Health-2 hours
May include injury and Illness Prevention Programs, job site inspections, accident prevention programs, management commitment and employee involvement, worksite analysis, hazard prevention and control, accident investigations, how to conduct safety meetings and supervisory communication.
c) Walking and Working Surfaces, including fall protection – 1 hour
d) Exit Routes, Emergency Action Plans, Fire Prevention Plans, and Fire Protection – 2 hour
e) Electrical – 2 hour
f) Personal Protective Equipment – 1 hour
g) Material Handling - 2 hours
h) Hazard Communication – 1 hour
2. Elective-remaining hours will be chosen from the following subject areas (class dependent)
a) Hazardous Materials (flammable and combustible liquids, spray finishing, compressed gases, dipping and coating operations).
b) Materials Handling
c) Permit-Required Confined Spaces
d) Machine Guarding
e) Welding, Cutting and Brazing
f) Introduction to Industrial Hygiene
g) Bloodborne Pathogens
h) Ergonomics
i) Safety and Health Programs
j) Fall Protection
k) Powered Industrial Vehicles
l) Other general industry hazards or policies
Successful completion of this class will result in an OSHA 30 card.
The Instructor for this course is OSHA authorized.
- OSHA 30-Hour Construction
The 30-hour Construction Training Program is specifically made to meet the requirements for safety directors, forepersons and field supervisors and provides essential safety information on OSHA compliance issues.
OHSA.com recommends Safety Certification courses. These courses serve as an orientation to occupational safety and health for workers covered by OSHA 29 CFR 1926. Workers must receive additional training on specific hazards of the job when required by OSHA standard.
The topics covered in this course are shown below.
- Orientation
- Introduction
- Labels and SDS
- Module 1: Introduction to OSHA
- Module 2: Managing Safety and Health
- Module 3: OSHA Focus Four Hazards
- Module 4: Personal Protective Equipment
- Module 5: Health Hazards in Construction
- Module 6: Stairways and Ladders
- Module 7: Concrete and Masonry Construction
- Module 8: Confined Spaces
- Module 9: Cranes, Derricks, Hoists, Elevators and Conveyors
- Module 10: Ergonomics
- Module 11: Excavations
- Module 12: Fire Protection and Prevention
- Module 13: Materials Handling, Use and Disposal
- Module 14: Motor Vehicles, Mechanized Equipment and Marine Operations; Rollover Protective Structures and Overhead Protection; and Signs, Signals and Barricades
- Module 15: Safety and Health Programs
- Module 16: Scaffolds
- Module 17: Tools - Hand and Power
- Module 18: Welding and Cutting
- Module 19: Silica Exposure
- Module 20: Lead Exposure
- Module 21: Asbestos Exposure
Successful completion of this class will result in an OSHA 30 card.
The Instructor for this course is OSHA authorized.
Cost: $495
- OSHA 30-Hour Construction
- Industrial Maintenence (electrical, mechanical, hydraulics, pneumatics, piping, motor control, etc. )
- FANUC HandlingTool Operation and Programming
FANUC HandlingTool Operation and Programming (32 hours/3.0 CEUs)
This course covers the tasks (see below) that an operator, technician, engineer or programmer needs to set up and program a FANUC Robotics HandlingTool Software Package.
- Operate the teach pendant
- Navigate the controller software
- Power up the robot
- Jog the robot in different coordinate systems
- Recover from common program and robot faults
- Execute production operations
- Perform frame set up
- Create, modify, and execute a material handling program
- Understand programming instructions
- Understand positional information (CARTESIAN vs. JOINT)
- Understand motion types (JOINT, LINEAR, CIRCULAR)
- Create, set up, and execute MACROs
- Configure, monitor, force and simulate input and output signals
- Perform stand backup, and restore programs and files
Course Delivery
In person, hands-on laboratory exercises. In addition to lab exercises, a pre-test and post-test are used to measure mastery of objectives. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive the FANUC HandlingTool Operation and Programming industry credential.
Cost: $2000
Prerequisites
None
TechCred
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These technology-focused credentials take a year or less to complete and prepare current and future employees for the technology jobs Ohio employers need.
- FANUC 2D iRVision COMING SOON!
iRVision Operation and Programming - 2D (24 Contact Hours/2.0 CEUs) COMING SOON!
This course covers the basic tasks (see below) and procedures required for an operator, technician, engineer or programmer to set up, teach, test, and modify iRVision applications.
Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student can identify the components of a vision system, install vision hardware, develop an application, program the robot, perform error recovery procedures and follow recommended safety practices. More specifically:
- View and/or change robot and computer parameters to facilitate access to the robot's web page
- Setup a camera
- Perform an inspection vision process
- Understand basic vision concepts and lighting
- Master a robot using vision mastering
- Create tool frame for the robot applicator
- Create user frames necessary for use with the vision system
- Calibrate a camera
- Setup a 2D single-view vision process
- Program the robot to respond to visual results
Course Delivery
Registered students will be provided with on-line modules up to two weeks prior to the training. In person, hands-on laboratory exercises. In addition to lab exercises, a pre-test and post-test are used to measure mastery of objectives. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive the FANUC iRVision Operation and Programming - 2D industry credential.
Cost: $1935
Prerequisites
Completion of a live, FANUC instructor led Operation and Programming course (such as HandlingTool, ArcTool, SpotTool). Completion of an online eLearn Operation and Programming course will not meet this Operation and Programming prerequisite.
TechCred
Interested in finding out how your company may be reimbursed for an employee's tuition for this course?
TechCred helps Ohioans learn new skills and helps employers build a stronger workforce with the skills needed in a technology-infused economy.
These technology-focused credentials take a year or less to complete and prepare current and future employees for the technology jobs Ohio employers need.
- FANUC Robot to PLC integration
ROBOT AND PLC (AB) SYSTEM INTEGRATION (40 Contact Hours/3.75 CEUs)
The main objective of this class is an introduction of how to setup, program and use an Allen-Bradley Control Logix PLC Controller to direct a FANUC robot application. You will develop a process for both Robot and PLC setup procedures, including communication using an ETHERNET IP protocol, and create, test, run, troubleshoot and refine the program and production setup for an automation system.
This class will specifically focus on an Allen Bradley Control Logix PLC with Studio 5000 software on an ETHERNET IP platform. We will use Ladder Logic to coordinate the automation.
This class will show you step by step how to evaluate a Project Scope and turn it into a working PLC production program for General Industry applications.
Course Objectives: Students successfully completing this course will be able to:
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Review an automation project scope and access appropriate system
components
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Assess, Evaluate and review workcell design for a material handling
automation solution for a general industry application
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Configure Devices in the workcell - Hardware, Software, Network,
Communications
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Configure Robot and PLC for Production
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Program the Robot to perform the tasks
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Program an Allen Bradley Control Logix PLC with appropriate modules
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Write the TPPs – Teach Pendant Program and MACROS where appropriate
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Write the Ladder Logic Programs
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Create and Set the appropriate Input and Output map structure on Robot and
PLC
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Design, Create and Configure Bit Maps
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Create and Configure Network using an Ethernet Protocol
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Design, Create and Configure an HMI Application for Production
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Understand and implement foundational practices to create standard
automated solution using an AB PLC and a FANUC Robot
Course Delivery
The course consists of lectures, lessons, chapter reviews, demonstrations and a series of lab exercises designed to reinforce what the student has learned. In addition to lab exercises, a pre-test and a post-test are used to measure mastery of objectives. Recommended safety procedures are integrated into all training exercises.
Cost: $4500
Prerequisites
Completion of a live FANUC instructor led Operation and Programming course (such as HandlingTool, ArcTool, SpotTool). Completion of an online eLearn Operation and Programming course will not meet this Operation and Programming prerequisite. An Allen Bradley PLC (CCP146) Studio 5000 Logix Designer Level 1: ControlLogix System Fundamentals CCP146 class is required.
TechCred
Interested in finding out how your company may be reimbursed for an employee's tuition for this course?
TechCred helps Ohioans learn new skills and helps employers build a stronger workforce with the skills needed in a technology-infused economy.
These technology-focused credentials take a year or less to complete and prepare current and future employees for the technology jobs Ohio employers need.
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- Industrial Ethernet Fundamentals for Manufacturing/CCP182
Industrial Ethernet Fundamentals for Manufacturing (2 days)
This course is now aligned with the Rockwell/Allen Bradley CCP182 course
Understanding the basics of Ethernet communication:
- 7-layer stack
- IP addressing, Subnet Masks and Gateway addresses
- Layer 2 and Layer 3 communication
- Importance of properly segmenting networks in and industrial environment
Course Objectives: Students successfully completing this course will understand and know how to do the following:
- Assigning a Computer’s IP Address
- Pinging a Device’s IP Address
- Assigning IP Addresses Using RSLinx Classic Software and Rotary Switches
- Assigning IP Addresses Using BOOTP/DHCP Server Software
- Configuring Stratix 5700 Switch Settings Using the Express Setup
- Creating and Assigning VLANs
- Configuring DHCP Persistence
- Configuring Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Configuring Port Security and Traffic Monitoring
- Monitoring Stratix 5700 Switch Status and Performance
- Managing a Stratix 5700 Switch Using a Studio 5000 Logix Designer Project
- Isolating EtherNet/IP Network Problems
- Diagnosing Problems with EtherNet/IP Modules
- Diagnosing Problems with EtherNet/IP Network Components
- Monitoring an EtherNet/IP Network Using WebEnabled Technologies
- Troubleshooting a Stratix 5700 Switch
- Updating Stratix 5700 Switch Firmware
Course Delivery
The course consists of lectures, lessons, chapter reviews, demonstrations and a series of lab exercises designed to reinforce what the student has learned.
Cost: $2000
Prerequisites
None.
- Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley Studio 5000 ControlLogix System Fundamentals CCP146
Studio 5000 Logix Designer Level 1: ControlLogix System Fundamentals CCP146 (2 days/1.4 CEUs)
Cost: $2000
After completing this course, you should be able to perform basic ControlLogix® and Studio 5000 Logix Designer® tasks, such as: creating and configuring a project and communicating with a controller. The course will assist you in developing and building a solid foundation with a fundamental knowledge of ControlLogix and other Logix5000™ systems. You will be introduced to basic Logix5000 concepts and terminology, and you will be exposed to Logix5000 system hardware, including hands-on experience with the ControlLogix platform.
OBJECTIVES
After completing this course, students should be able to perform the following tasks:
- Understand ControlLogix system components
- Select and connect to industrial networks in a Logix5000 system
- Download and go online to a Logix5000 controller
- Operate the Logix Designer application
- Configure local 1756-I/O modules
- Create tags and monitor data in a Logix Designer project
- Draft basic ladder logic for a Logix Designer routine
- Select basic ladder logic instructions for a Logix Designer routine
- Enter ladder logic components in a Logix Designer routine
- Locate ControlLogix system components, I/O Tags, and devices in a Logix5000 system
TechCred
Interested in finding out how your company may be reimbursed for an employee's tuition for this course?
TechCred helps Ohioans learn new skills and helps employers build a stronger workforce with the skills needed in a technology-infused economy.
These technology-focused credentials take a year or less to complete and prepare current and future employees for the technology jobs Ohio employers need.
- Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley Studio 5000 Logix Designer -Project Development CCP143
Studio 5000 Logix Designer Level 3: Project Development-CCP143
Cost: $2720
Upon completion of this course, given a functional specification for a Logix5000™ application, you should be able to develop a project to meet the specification requirements.
OBJECTIVES
After completing this course, students should be able to perform the following tasks:
- Create and organize a project
- Create periodic and event tasks
- Develop an add-on instruction in ladder diagram
- Organize arrays
- Create a user-defined data type
- Import components
- Enter, edit, and verify ladder logic
- Configure a controller to produce and consume data
- Configure controllers to share data over EtherNet/IP™
- Communicate with a local 1756-I/O module and over an EtherNet/IP network
- Configure a message Allocate connections
- Retrieve and set controller status values with GSV/SSV instructions
- Program a BTD instruction
- Handle a major fault
- Manage project files Update firmware
TechCred
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TechCred helps Ohioans learn new skills and helps employers build a stronger workforce with the skills needed in a technology-infused economy.
These technology-focused credentials take a year or less to complete and prepare current and future employees for the technology jobs Ohio employers need.
- Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley Studio 5000 Logix Basic Ladder Logic CCP151
Studio 5000 Logix Designer Level 2: Basic Ladder Logic Programming CCP151 (2 Days/1.4 CEUs)
Cost: $2000
After completing this course, you should be able to program basic ladder logic instructions for Logix5000™ controllers. This is a skill-building course that provides you with the resources and hands-on practice required to complete this objective. You will have an opportunity to use the Studio 5000 Logix Designer® application to perform basic software tasks to meet the requirements of a given functional specification. In addition, you will set up a sequencer to run equipment through a predefined procedure and separate production procedure from equipment control.
OBJECTIVES
After completing this course, students should be able to perform the following tasks:
- Start and test a ladder diagram
- Program timer and counter instructions
- Program compare, move, and math instructions
- Document and search and handle expressions
- Program and separate the procedure from equipment control
- Copy and fill an array
TechCred
Interested in finding out how your company may be reimbursed for an employee's tuition for this course?
TechCred helps Ohioans learn new skills and helps employers build a stronger workforce with the skills needed in a technology-infused economy.
These technology-focused credentials take a year or less to complete and prepare current and future employees for the technology jobs Ohio employers need.
- Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley Studio 5000 ControlLogix Maintenance and Troubleshooting CCP153
Studio 5000 Logix Designer Level 2: ControlLogix Maintenance and Troubleshooting CCP153 (4 Days/1.4 CEUs)
Cost: $3000
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to troubleshoot a previously operational ControlLogix® system and restore normal operation.
This course adds to your skill set by introducing new tasks such as connecting to a network, interpreting project execution, editing ladder logic online, and more. You will then be presented with a systematic strategy for diagnosing and troubleshooting a variety of common system errors: Controller, I/O, and other hardware problems, noise-related problems, and software configuration problems.
OBJECTIVES
After completing this course, students should be able to perform the following tasks:
- Optional: Locate ControlLogix system components
- Interpret project organization and execution, frequently used instructions, arrays, and tags of user-defined data types
- Locate and edit tag values
- Force I/O and toggle bits
- Troubleshoot digital, analog, and remote I/O
- Update Logix5000 firmware Troubleshoot controller, power supply, noise related, and digital I/O module problems
- Analyze and troubleshoot a system using trend chart
- Edit ladder logic online
- Optional: Edit FDB’s online
- Document, print, and search project components
PRE-REQUISITES
To successfully complete this course, completion of the Studio 5000 Logix Designer Level 1: ControlLogix System Fundamentals course (Course No. CCP146) or equivalent experience is required. This course is intended for maintainers. Some topics may be similar to topics covered in course CCP299.
TechCred
Interested in finding out how your company may be reimbursed for an employee's tuition for this course?
TechCred helps Ohioans learn new skills and helps employers build a stronger workforce with the skills needed in a technology-infused economy.
These technology-focused credentials take a year or less to complete and prepare current and future employees for the technology jobs Ohio employers need.
- Drafting and Print Reading
Drafting and Print Reading
Drafting and Print Reading is an introductory course in Engineering Graphics. The course has both lecture and lab and is designed with the assumption that students are “starting at the beginning”.
Course Objectives -The students will develop an understanding of:
- Multiview projections
- Functional sketching
- Dimensioning
- Tolerances
- Isometrics
- Oblique
- Auxiliary views
- Introduction to Descriptive Geometry
- AutoCAD 2D
- Introduction to print reading
TechCred
Interested in finding out how your company may be reimbursed for an employee's tuition for this course?
TechCred helps Ohioans learn new skills and helps employers build a stronger workforce with the skills needed in a technology-infused economy.
These technology-focused credentials take a year or less to complete and prepare current and future employees for the technology jobs Ohio employers need.
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing - GD&T
3 days-18 hours
$450
GD&T is a symbolic language used by designers to communicate manufacturing constraints and tolerances clearly. This information is conveyed in the form of annotations included in the design of the part.
Objectives
Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing is an introductory course teaching how to understand tolerances on dimensional drawings. This course is designed under the assumption that students know basic math (e.g. addition and subtraction).
After completing the course, students should know the following:
- General tolerancing - types of tolerancing, difference between maximum and least material condition, and how tolerance notes are used
- Assembly tolerances - different types of fits, features, and baseline dimensioning
- Fundamentals of GD&T - types of geometric features and what datums are and how to read them
- Feature control frames - how and why to use them
- Location tolerances -how to interpret and calculate position tolerances and how to measure hole locations.
- Orientation tolerances - parallelism and perpendicularity
- Form tolerances -straightness, circularity, and cylindricity tolerances
Course Delivery
The course consists of a mixture of lecture and hands-on exercises designed to teach students how to read GD&T.
- Mandatory – 6 hours
Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley Studio 5000 Controllogix System fundamentals ccp146 (2 days)
May 13-14, 2024
June 17-18, 2024
December 2-3, 2024 2 seats available out of 8
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Rockwell Automation/AB Studio 5000 Logix Designer Level 2: Basic Ladder Logic Programming CCP151 (2 Days)
TBD
Rockwell Automation/AB Studio 5000 Logix Designer Level 2: Controllogix maintenance & troubleshooting CCP 153 (4 Days)
May 20-23, 2024
Fanuc HandlingTool Operation and Programming (4 days)
May 2,3,9 and 10, 2024
June 13, 14, 20, 21, 2024
July 15-18, 2024
Mechanical Print Reading
July 11, 18, 25, 2024
Drafting and Print Reading
Call for availabily
Industrial Ethernet Fundamentals for Manufacturing
August 12, 19
OSHA Training
OSHA 30- General Industry
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OSHA 10-General Industry
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Additive Manufacturing-FDM
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Limited space available in each course. Register Here!
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