WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — A new mobile lab will get it’s first showing on Tuesday afternoon.
Northcentral Technical College will be debuting their new Advanced Manufacturing Mobile Lab at 1 pm on their Wausau campus. The mobile lab which is part of a partnership between the school, the North Central and Northwest Wisconsin workforce boards, and the Wisconsin department of workforce development, let students teach others about advanced manufacturing.
Associate vice president of marketing, public relations, and legislative advocacy Katie Finch says NTC is excited to debut the lab to partners. “We are excited to showcase this to some of our partners in K-12, some of our legislative partners, government partners. Then, of course, our manufacturing partners who will benefit from this great new training lab.”
Felch says there are already several requests for the lab at different locations. “We’ve already had requests to visit some high schools to train students through the end of 2018. The lab will also be at the manufacturing summit. This fall we’re also hoping to develop training opportunities with the manufacturing industries. So there’s a lot of excitement.”
Much of the equipment within the mobile lab is focused on the technology side of manufacturing, including two Haas CNC machines, 12 CNC programming trainers and 12 laptops. Felch describes it as, “All different ways that you can construct a new product to have better efficiency than existing products. So it’s a lot of the automation and the technology side of manufacturing.”
The public is encouraged to attend the launch of the mobile lab from 1 to 2 pm at NTC’s Center for Business & Industry on the Wausau Campus. A program will be given featuring NTC President Lori Weyers and Wisconsin DWD Secretary Ray Allen with tours of the mobile lab available after.
