Manufacturing Skills Training at Lake Land College

Manufacturing Skills Training available through Lake Land College Industrial Programs

IMEC and the staff at the LLC Center for Business & Industry are reaching out to companies in the LLC district for manufacturing/industrial-related offerings to train current or future workers on essential skills for the workplace... Check out the program descriptions below and contact IMEC's Jenny McKinney for additional information!

These days it's essential to build the workforce knowledge through manufacturing skills training. Programs in this arena are offered through partners like your local community college and manufacturing specialists like IMEC.

April 9, 2013 - PLC Level 1 SLC 500

This 36-hour course provides participants with practical skills to service and troubleshoot Allen-Bradley SLC 500 Programmable Logic Controllers.

Instructional topics include:
 Evolution of PLCs
 PLC Components and assembly
 Understanding Inputs and Outputs.
 The CPU
 Memory Organization
 I/O Addressing
and more.

Lab Exercises include:
 Assembling and commissioning a PLC
 Communicating with PLC using RSLinx software
 Connecting to a PLC, uploading and downloading programs using RSLogix software
 Program documentation
 Using basic instructions
and more.
*Applied Industrial Electricity training or equivalent skills required for this class.

March 26, 2013 - Applied Industrial Electricity

This 24 hour course is designed to provide participants with the skills necessary to safely work with and troubleshoot electrical systems and motor controls.

Instructional topics include:
 Electrical Safety, Lockout/Tagout, NFPA-70E
 Test Equipment
 DC & AC Circuits
 Electrical Symbols & Schematics & Documentation
 Circuit Protection
 Transformers
 Power Supplies
 Solenoids
and more.

Lab Exercises include:
 Proper use of Test Equipment
 DC Circuits
 AC Circuits & Reactive Devices
 Print Reading
and more.
*Employees participating in this training must be familiar with industrial equipment.

IMEC is available for additional information regarding this manufacturing skills training or other on-site and public event offerings for manufacturers. Contact us at info@imec.org or visit www.imec.org for details!