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Mechatronics
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Mechatronics is a field of study that covers multiple disciplines including electrical, mechanical, electromechanical, hydraulics and pneumatics. We've worked on it from the state of South Carolina for the last five years to be proactive in meeting the technology needs in our area and Mechatronics allows us to do that. Now in a highly automated factory we're hiring just one person that's performing several different duties. This one person is able to program the programmable logic controller, they're able to troubleshoot a pneumatic valve, they're able to replace a motor.
Instead of having several different people performing different job functions we've got one person that understands the entire process and they're able to work on different parts of the process which makes the one person more valuable to employ. Mechatronics is systems based learning and also hands on based learning and the goal is to get students to learn an adaptive capability. They learn on one system and they can quickly or they have the mental agility to transfer that knowledge on to another system or from our classroom into the manufacturing facility.
What we're seeing is at Piedmont Tech a lot of these students that are coming in and of course a lot of the jobs that are available out in industry are requiring someone that has skills in Mechatronics. So naturally that's a natural fit for students coming in, they want to go where the jobs are so they're going into a field that we see continues to climb for us at Piedmont Tech. The first question we get from prospective industries when they come to Lawrence County is the labor available to be able to make the products that they make and that's the number one question.
Every state's got a good side, every state gives incentives but every state also has labor questions and the first state that can solve that problem is going to be the winner. The maintenance technicians who are at our plant, some of those have entered the program and it's kind of honed their skills to improve what they do on a day to day basis within the plant. So it's really been two benefits we've received, the promotability of our associates from production into maintenance and then improving the skill level of our maintenance team.
Mechatronics at Tri County Technical College actually helped me to improve on my mechanical background and it helped me to learn more of the in depth processes, it helped me to understand not necessarily what was going on but why something was happening all the way from the hydraulics, pneumatics, PLCs, things of that nature and it helped me to increase my skills enough to help me actually to achieve the job of maintenance supervisor here at USMJ Valley.
Five years ago, BMW came to the technical college system and had a situation that they needed to work on, the mechatronics or industrial maintenance is what we were calling it at the time, the curriculum for industrial maintenance was not the same across the five upstate technical colleges, that being Tri County Tech, Spartanburg Community College, Piedmont Tech, York Tech and Greenville Tech.
They really needed to have workers with the same skill base that they were hiring from the region when they came in to start so they worked with Duke Energy's Advanced SC to fund a program to get the curriculums all the same and to upgrade the programs both in the credit side and the non credit side and I think that's really helped us get to where we are today with our mechatronics program. Piedmont Tech has been instrumental in helping us develop our maintenance apprenticeship program and delivering a lot of our SPC classes on site.
A person with a mechatronic, who has a mechatronics background, we feel with our equipment's technology and the technology's inner equipment, understanding the principles that they learn in mechatronics and be able to apply that to our CNC machines, not only from a CNC operator perspective but also for our maintenance technicians and bringing them up to speed on how to maintain this equipment and understand it. Demand for this is going to be even greater because as we see technology change, that change in technology requires a new set of skills.
We're moving more to a mind based or mental based job force than we are a bank based and what I mean by that is it used to, it was all labor, now it's a mental process by making equipment do what it's supposed to do because of robotics and other portions of electronic engineering is taking place. When I was born, the skill sets was you go get a job and you have physical labor that you do it with. Today, if you don't have more than a high school diploma, your probability of being successful in the marketplace is a lot less than what it is if you continue that education to get the skill sets that you need.
As far as us and what we predict, we kind of continue to see this climb, continuing to climb because trying to meet that need will be a continuous thing for us. Going out whether it's to the high schools or going out to different job fairs and really pushing Megatronics and showing that there are jobs available in the Megatronics arena, but it's really just getting the word out, not only to the potential students but to their parents as well. .
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