Program Placement Rate:

100%

Source 2017-18 Dunwoody Career Services Annual Report

Industrial Controls

Looking to fast track your career in automated manufacturing? Take evening classes and earn a certificate in Industrial Controls.

8.4

Job Inquiries Per Dunwoody Graduate

Source 2016-17 Dunwoody Career Services Annual Report

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Graduates earn an industry-recognized certificate

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Dunwoody Industrial Controls

Gain the hands-on experience and entry-level skills needed to get a job in the electronics industry with a certificate in Industrial Controls.

Through hands-on projects, you’ll learn the basics of wiring and programming the latest programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human machine interfaces (HMIs), and motor controls.

Dunwoody’s program curriculum is aligned with standards set forth by:

  • Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI)
  • Institute of Packing Professionals (IoPP)
  • National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

This means that you graduate with the skills and credentials you need to get a good job in a wide variety of manufacturing-related industries.

Credits earned in the Industrial Controls certificate directly transfer into Dunwoody’s Industrial Controls & Robotics, Automated Systems & Robotics, or Electronics Technology associate’s degree programs.

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Class topics include:

  • Basic Electricity & Electronics Theory
  • Industrial Controls & PLCs Theory
  • Algebra
  • Trigonometry

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Student Organizations

Opportunities to get involved outside of the classroom include:

  • Combat Robots
  • Robotic Snow Plow Team
  • SkillsUSA
  • Student Government Association (SGA)

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Facilities

Industrial Controls PLC Lab

Programmable Controls Lab

 Learn to debug and program programmable logic controllers for use in a variety of control systems.
  • 11 Allen Bradley MicroLogix PLCs
  • 11 Allen Bradley CompactLogix PLCs
  • 11 Siemens S7-1200 PLCs
  • 11 ABB VFDs
  • 11 Maple Systems HMIs
Fanuc Robotics Lab

Industrial Robotics Lab

 Learn to program industrial robots.
  • 8 FANUC LR Mate Industrial Robots
  • 8 Epson T3 SCARA Robots
  • 1 FANUC M1-iA Delta Robot

Packaging Lab

 Assemble, configure, and program an array of packaging machinery to move a product from its initial state to packaged, wrapped, boxed, and palletized.
  • 1 Fanuc Robot and RoboDrill Cell
  • 1 Scandia Diamond Wrapper
  • 1 MGS Cartoner
  • 1 Checkmate Checkweigher
  • 1 DoBoy Shrink Tunnel
  • 1 Label-Aire Labeler
HAAS Manufacturing Lab

Gene Haas Manufacturing Innovation Lab

 Learn to program CNC milling and turning operations and develop the tooling used in modern manufacturing processes like injection molding and metal stamping.
  • 10 Haas CNC Mini Mills
  • 2 Haas VF2 Mills
  • Haas ST-10 Lathe
  • Sodick Wire EDM
  • Charmilles Sinker EDM
  • Cincinatti Injection Mold Press
Metrology Lab

Engineering, Materials, Mechanics & Metrology Lab

 Open to all manufacturing and engineering students (and those with training on the equipment), this lab brings together equipment for additive manufacturing, material testing, measurement,...
  • Two Stratasys Fortus 250 3D Printers
  • One Stratasys F370 3D Printer
  • One Fortus 400 3D Printer
  • Two MakerBot 3D Printers
  • Two Zeiss Duramax Coordinate Measurement Machines
  • Two MTS Criterion Tensile/Shear/Compression Testers
  • 7 Haas CNC Controller Simulators
  • One Zeiss Stemi 305 Microscope