Learn Basic Robotics at Kalamazoo Valley’s Groves Center

Seats are still available for the upcoming Basic Robotics training course at Kalamazoo Valley’s Groves Center. Offered Oct. 23 from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., this hands-on course teaches participants how to safely operate a 6-axis FANUC robot and manually operate it in various modes. The cost is $325 per person and includes breakfast, lunch, and training materials.

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to demonstrate:

• Safe operation and work around robots in accordance with RIA standards

• Jogging the robot in Joint & World mode

• Loading programs into memory and applying touchups

• Stepping through programs in both forward and reverse

• Understanding various robot parameters and the effects of changing them

• Creating and running a program to perform material handling functions

• Following the flow of a program containing subroutines

• Getting past singularities

• Recovering from a faulted situation

Instructor Ian Salo is a graduate of Western Michigan University with degrees in Industrial Technology and Business Education. He has more than 17 years of experience using a variety of CAD software packages, nine years of Engineering Principles, five years in 3D printing and has recently added MasterCAM to his skill set. Salo is currently the lead instructor for all of the Mechatronic modules at the Groves Center and is a certified FANUC Robotics instructor.

The Groves Center, 7107 Elm Valley Drive, Kalamazoo, is a state-of-the-art, 70,000-square-foot facility that includes a Mobile Robotics Lab, 3D Printer Room, HAAS CNC Lab, Mechatronics Lab, Electrical Panel Lab, Computer CAD/ CAM Fanuc SIM Classroom and a FANUC Robodrill Room.

For more information, contact Kate Miller at kmiller1@kvcc.edu or visit https://www.campusce.net/kvcctraining to register.