WIRED Advanced Manufacturing Sector

WIRED Advanced Manufacturing Projects

Madison College (Madison Area Technical College)

Manufacturing Basic Skills Initiative promotes a regional approach to developing a manufacturing workforce with requisite foundational skills through the Manufacturing Skills Standard Certification (MSSC), Career Safe OSHA training, Basic Electrical theory and NRPA 70E Arc Flash safety training.  This WIRED investment advances the Governor’s goal of 40% of manufacturing workers obtaining the MSSC Certification.

The Advanced Manufacturing Automation platform will increase automation capacity at Blackhawk Technical College and Madison College to enable updated course offerings in training areas such as robotics, programmable logic controllers, electronics and computerized numeric controls.  The platform is mobile allowing greater access to advanced manufacturing training.

 Learn more at www.matcmadison.edu

Blackhawk Technical College

The Green Manufacturing Specialist project is an off-shoot of the manufacturing automation project.  This project is training 8 technical college faculty on a WIRED funded curriculum developed at Purdue University. The Green Specialist training is based on six modules for up to 48 hours of training and includes the following topics:  Sustainability in Practice, Dumpster Dive, Energy Management, H2O Conservation, Pollution Solutions and Green Chemistry.  The training will be integrated into technical college coursework and is available for business and industry as well.

Learn more at www.blackhawk.edu

Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board

Wired invested in expanding Southwest Wisconsin’s Basic Skills and MSSC training to assist emerging and dislocated workers in the region.  Workers received instruction on the basic skills required in advanced manufacturing through the use of MSSC modules.  The Southwest Workforce Development Board has collaborated with Southwest WI Technical College and the AFL-CIO Labor and Education Training Council to deliver this training.

Learn more at www.swwdb.org