A donation of state-of-the-art equipment and communications software from Siemens, worth $6000, brings the Mechatronics lab at the SCC-BMW center technologically ahead of many local manufacturers. is included in the donation, providing more training stations with cutting edge technology.
Part of the donation is CBA software, a communications network that links the Mechatronics cabinets [...]
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Posted in Festo Corporation, Grant-funded Training, KUKA robots, Mechatronics, Quality & Lean Manufacturing, Robotics, Siemens, TechReadySC (TM), Workforce Development, Workforce Training, tagged BMW Zentrum, manufacturing, Mechatronics, partnership, TechReadySC™ on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
TechReadySC™, a collaboration of the five Upstate technical and community colleges and the SC Technical College System office is sponsoring a presentation of a regional initiative in workforce competition.
Welcome
Wendy Walden
Chair, TechReadySC™ Marketing Committee
Special Remarks
Bobby M. Hitt, III
Department Manager, Public Affairs
BMW Manufacturing Corporation
TechReadySC™ Overview
Cynthia Eason
Chair, TechReadySC™ Board
Mechatronics Video Presentation
Mechatronics Overview
Dan Davidchik
Mechatronics Project Coordinator
Central Community College - [...]
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Posted in Apprenticeship, Automotive Industry, BMW Center, Business Partnership, Industrial Maintenance, Industrial Maintenance, Mechatronics, TechReadySC (TM), Tyger River Campus, Upstate Alliance for Technical Training, Workforce Training, tagged automated manufacturing, BMW Zentrum, Mechatronics, upstate allliance on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
TechReadySC™, a collaboration of the five Upstate technical and community colleges and the SC Technical College System office is sponsoring a presentation of a regional initiative in workforce competition.
The presentation will being at 10 am at the BMW Zentrum at exit 60 (Hwy 101) on I-85 south of Spartanburg. To make a reservation for [...]
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Approximately 35 industry executives attended a 7:30 breakfast at the BMW Center yesterday morning to learn more about Mechatronics. The companies represented included Renfrow Brothers, Exopack, Schaffler Group (INA), Timken, BMW Corporation, Crowder Construction, Inman Mills, Lear Corporation, Spartanburg Steel Products, Duer Carolina Coil, Spartan Foods, Boysen, Sew Eurodrive, National Starch and Chemical, and Freightliner, among [...]
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Posted in Apprenticeship, Apprenticeship Carolina, BMW Center, Duncan SC, Festo Corporation, Industrial Maintenance, Industrial Maintenance, KUKA robots, TechReadySC (TM), Union County Career Technology Center, Upstate Alliance for Technical Training, tagged Mechatronics, festo plc on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the features of mechatronics learning envrionments is that they are easliy configurable and programmable. This image to the right is a set of eight mechantronics units called cabinets.
Each cabinet can be set up to do a different function, such as setting parts into the system, checking for quality, assembling parts, conveying to another [...]
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Dr. David Just, Rita Hunt and Faye Lanford will attend the Plant Manager’s Conference of the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance April 16-18 in Myrtle Beach to spread the word about our new Mechatronics courses at the BMW Center and in Union County.
Mechatronic System Certification comprises three levels. The first level is a 240 hour introductory [...]
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Plans are being made to send instructors to Germany for Siemens training for Mechatronics. Siemens requires that all instructors throughou the globe take final instruction at their plant to ensure that the quality and content of instruction is guaranteed anywhere in the world.
Mechatronics is an advanced training system that allows people to learn how to [...]
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Posted in Mechatronics, tagged Mechatronics on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
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To address the growing skills gap in automation and mechatronics, Purdue University Calumet says it will [...]
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Posted in Automotive Industry, BMW Center, Continuing Education, Education Partnership, Industrial Maintenance, Industrial Maintenance, Mechatronics, Siemens, Workforce Training, tagged Dr. David Just, Festo, handslungkompetenz, Kentucky Community and Technical Colleges, Mark Spencer, Mechatronics, Siemens, Tim Coggins on November 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Mechatronics is the latest term for training multi-skilled technicians, using Time and motion study, Total Quality Management, kaizen, or other programs that cross-train operators and maintenance workers in electrical, mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic processes as well as trouble shooting, predictive maintenance, and PLC programming. The word was invented by a Japanese man in 1969 to [...]
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Posted in AMATROL, Automotive Industry, C&CE Staff, Continuing Education, Instructor Spotlight, tagged Industrial Maintenance, instructor, Mechatronics, Terrill Brown, Youth Build on November 20, 2007 | No Comments »
SCC C&CE Instructor Terrill Brown spent last week in Toledo, Ohio with instructors and industrial maintenance supervisors learning the needs of the automotive manufacturing industry. Coming from Texas, Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky, attendees discussed integrating mechatronics trainers into the industrial maintenance classroom. Students need electrical and mechanical skills in pneumatics and hydraulics before they begin programming [...]
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