Capabilities and Equipment

Equipment: Haas VF-1, VF-4, and ST-20Y with live tooling.

Training for the CNC machinery is offered via the ACE Program (America’s Cutting Edge). This free program is funded by the the U.S. Department of Energy as a means to grow the defense industrial base required workforce – specifically in precision machining. ACE is a roughly 40-hour course with 8 hours of self-paced online introduction and 32 hours of in-class and on-machine learning. Completion of the ACE Program will not make one a master machinist, but it will introduce the fundamentals of CNC machining and highlight the career opportunities in this vial sector.

Equipment: Engel e-mac 110, horizontal, electric-drive, 110 ton injection molder

Equipment: Various 

The AMC is developing training and expanding in-house expertise in 'Digital Transformation' for manufacturing. This term can mean many things, from adopting Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) devices to maintaining a Digital Twin platform of machinery and plant operations. With 'Advanced' in it's title, the AMC strives to maintain a high level of digital systems in the lab to monitor our growing equipment portfolio and train the current and future workforce on implementing new technologies in production environments.

In progress - Digital Transformation Lab for Legacy Industry Equipment

Utilizing well-known hardware such as Arduino and growing software platforms like Inductive Automation's Ignition, this training lab is a crash course in the OT/IT fundamentals and concepts that will help professionals design the production systems of the future.