Students at Wallace Community College-Dothan will have the chance to train with jobsite-like equipment as they learn to install, troubleshoot and maintain advanced manufacturing systems.
Advanced manufacturing systems, like those in Alabama’s auto plants and other high-tech manufacturers, include automation, robotics and mechatronics. Those elements require higher tech skills from the people responsible for keeping the systems running.
The new Modular Production System, which will be used to train students in the school’s mechatronics and FAME programs, is being purchased with a $336,369 grant from the Alabama Community College System.
“This grant will provide our students with hands-on, real-world training in advanced manufacturing technologies,” said Martha Compton, WCCD associate dean of career and technical education. “The MPS training system allows them to experience the kind of complex automation and robotics they will encounter in the workforce, making them highly employable and well-prepared for the future of manufacturing.”
Students can use the training for a variety of jobs as maintenance and repair workers, mechanics, machinists and technicians in electrical, electronic, engineering and mechanical fields.
