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Career Outcomes Rate:
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Industrial Controls
Looking to fast track your career in automated manufacturing? Take evening classes and earn a certificate in Industrial Controls.
62K
Average Salary: Robotics & Electronics, Certificate
Source 2023-24 Dunwoody Career Services Annual Report
Industrial Controls training in the evening at Dunwoody
Gain the hands-on experience and entry-level skills needed to get a job in the electronics industry with a certificate in Industrial Controls.
With just one year of study, you’ll complete industrial controls training in 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.
Industrial Controls Training in:
- Basic Electricity & Electronics Theory
- Industrial Controls & PLCs Theory
- Algebra
- Trigonometry
Student Organizations
Opportunities to get involved outside of the classroom include:
- Robotic Snow Plow Team
- SkillsUSA
Facilities
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
Industrial Robotics Lab
Learn to wire and program industrial robots.
- 9 FANUC LR Mate Industrial Robots
- 10 Epson T3 SCARA Robots
- 8 UR3E Collaborative 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
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
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, and CNC simulation.
- 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