from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Golden LEAF representatives will be on hand forthe open house and to present a check for $575,000 to fund this regional initiative.
The training center is located at 1609 Airport Road, the left side ofthe Carolina Money Saver building. The facility is directly across the street from the expanding Charlotte Monroe Regional Airport and in thecenter of the Monroe Corporate Center, both developed by the city of Monroe.
David Roller troubleshoots a three-phase motor control in the Electro-Mechanical class as instructor Russell Carpenter, back right, and other students look on. The class is one of the advanced classes in the mechatronics program at SPCC’s new Aerospace and Advanced Manufacturing Training Center.
The center covers approximately 4,000 square feet and houses more than$1 million worth of equipment for training in mechatronics, industrial maintenance, robotics, programmable logic controllers and avionics. The centerpiece of the facility is the Flexible Manufacturing System that will allow students to gain hands-on experience troubleshooting a live manufacturing line using skills learned in the program. This system is the only one of its kind in the region.
Monroe was recently highlighted in Southern Business & Development magazine as a hotbed of aerospace manufacturing in the Southeast. Monroe has the highest concentration of aerospace companies in North Carolina, the magazine said, noting 12 within a seven-mile radius and 2,600 people in the area working in the industry
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