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Advanced Technologies: From the Beginning

You need workers ready to work in a smart factory. Our extensive training focuses on advanced manufacturing, robotics, and mechatronics technologies.

Students begin with basic concepts like robot operation and component adjustment. Then they move to more advanced topics such as serial device applications and multiple station control. These advanced automation technologies are at the heart of Industry 4.0.

Hire Workers Ready for Your Environment

Our Smart Factory training system is a multi-station automated manufacturing line. This simulated factory floor environment integrates all major manufacturing technologies:

  • electrical
  • mechanical
  • hydraulics
  • pneumatics
  • Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) components
  • autonomous robots
  • software

We build skills by combining an in-depth, comprehensive curriculum with real-world industrial components.

Automation and Robotics Center Programs

Industrial Maintenance

Program Length: 8 months, full-time days

Industrial Maintenance grounds you in all the areas that keep a modern plant running:

  • Electrical systems
  • Motors
  • Pneumatics
  • Hydraulics
  • Mechanical systems

Industrial Maintenance Technicians

SACA Associate Level Certificates

Learn how Smart Manufacturing works and pick up the essentials for working with industrial automation and robots at different levels:

  • Industry 4.0 Basic Operations
  • Industry 4.0 Advanced Operations
  • Industry 4.0 Robot System Operations
  • Industry 4.0 IIoT, Networking and Data Analytics

Industry 4.0 certifications

SACA Specialist Certificates

After you know the basics, keep stacking credentials to earn other certifications :

  • Lead Operations Specialist
  • Electrical Systems Specialist
  • Robotics Specialist
  • Mechanical Systems Specialist
  • Control Systems Specialist

saca Specialist certificates

CNC Machining

Time: 4 months

The CNC Machining and Turning Concepts program prepares you for an entry-level CNC career.

CNC Machinist

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Contact Information

Automation and Robotics Center

TechWorks Campus
360 Westfield Ave
Waterloo, IA 50701

319-296-4447

Email the Automation and Robotics Center

Director

Kent Wolfe
319-296-2329 ext.3004

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