Industrial Automation & Manufacturing Systems
Step into the future with Industrial Automation & Manufacturing Systems—a cutting-edge program where robotics, smart sensors, pneumatics, and mechanical power unite to drive innovation. Get hands-on with the technologies shaping tomorrow’s factories and earn seven prestigious SACA certifications that prove you're ready to lead in the world of smart automation.
- 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday–Friday for 7 weeks
- Day Class
- Waco
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Estimated Cost: $0
- Interest Form
Open to McLennan County residents, age 18+, AT NO COST.
In addition to the fully covered tuition, each student will receive:
- $75 weekly gas card
- Voucher for one pair of work boots valued at $250
- Toolkit with tools valued at $1365
Hurry–limited funds are available.
Modules Included in the Course
Description
Prepares individuals to connect, adjust and operate electrical motor control circuits using these electrical
components, including 3-phase AC motors, reversing magnetic motor starters with overloads, drum switches,
control relays, timer relays, push-button switches, selector switches, limit switches, pressure switches and float
switches. Other key skills include adhering to motor control safety rules, reading ladder logic circuit diagrams,
checking for proper ground connections, wiring motors for high and low voltage and interpreting common motor
control application circuits.
Description
Prepares individuals to connect, configure, adjust and operate AC variable frequency motor drives using basic volts
per hertz mode. Key skills include adhering to VFD safety rules, operating VFD in manual using keypad, performing
normal VFD startup and shutdown, performing emergency shutdown, viewing and editing parameters, changing
speed with potentiometer, interfacing/configuring external discrete I/O, interpreting error codes, resetting drive errors
and configuring for acceleration, deceleration and braking.
Description
Prepares individuals to program, configuration, adjust, monitor and operate industrial programmable logic controller
(PLC) systems. Key skills include adhering to PLC safety rules, performing normal startup/shutdown, operating PLC
in different modes, performing emergency shutdown and reset, monitoring for proper operation through indicators
and PC-based PLC software, configuring processor software drivers for communication to PC, configuring and
loading of HMI programs, operating HMI with PLC, configuring PLC discrete I/O, transferring programs between PC
and PLC processor, interpreting basic and intermediate level PLC ladder logic programs (with contacts, coils, timers,
counters, math, comparison instructions), PLC project creation/editing and interpreting common PLC program logic
applications using electro-pneumatic actuators and on/off motor control systems.
Description
Prepares individuals to connect, adjust, operate and analyze pneumatic circuits using these components: quick-
connect fittings, tee and cross fittings, air compressors, filters, regulators, lubricators, gauges, rotameters,
directional control valves, flow control valves, check valves, cylinders and motors. Other key skills include adhering
to pneumatic safety rules, reading pneumatic circuit symbols and diagrams, applying the Force-Pressure-Area
formula, converting absolute/gauge pressure units, performing reciprocating compressor startup/shutdown, applying
Pascal’s law, setting pressure switch, filter draining, setting lubricator rate, lubricator refilling and measuring delta P.
Description
Prepares individuals to install, adjust, align, tension, operate and analyze basic mechanical power transmission
drive systems using these components: motors, shafts, flexible jaw couplings, fractional horsepower (FHP) chain
drives, FHP V-belt drives, spur gear drives, pillow block bearings and flange bearings. Other key skills include
adhering to mechanical drive safety rules, mounting and leveling motors, testing and correcting for soft foot,
installing components and shafts with keyways, sizing keys, aligning shafts using feeler gauge and straight-edge
method, calculating speed and torque from component size ratios, interpreting rotary power specifications,
determining mechanical efficiency, greasing bearings using a grease gun, refilling oil lubrication reservoirs,
interpreting lubrication specifications and identifying component given a model number.
Description
Prepares individuals to set up, adjust, monitor and operate industrial robot systems in an Industry 4.0 automation
environment. Key skills include: adhering to robot safety rules, identifying robot types and robot components (and
end-effectors), performing normal startup and shutdown, performing emergency shutdown and recovery, identifying
robot work envelope, performing robot safety inspection, using teach pendant to view menus and status indicators,
using teach pendant to jog robot in joint mode or using Cartesian coordinates, adjusting jog speed, setting and
testing robot joint travel limits, using teach pendant to identify robot position in each of 5 frames, defining a frame
using 3-point method, loading a robot program using Ethernet or memory card, testing digital robot inputs and
outputs, testing robot program in single step or continuous mode, selecting and running robot program using teach
pendant, teaching/adjusting robot points using proper frame, identifying/recovering from a fault, and
viewing/interpreting robot alarm history.
Description
Prepares individuals to connect, adjust, and operate discrete (on/off) electronic sensors and relay control sequence
circuits using these components: inductive sensors, capacitive sensors, magnetic reed sensors, photoelectric
sensors, hall effect sensors, limit switches, control relays, timer relays, manual switches, DC motors, indicators,
electro-pneumatic solenoid directional control valves, and pneumatic actuators. Other key skills include: selecting
sensor type for an application, reading ladder logic circuit diagrams, and interpreting common relay-control
sequence applications circuits.
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