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This year, students partnered with four local companies (Research Products, Tormach, Inc., Murfie.com and Grande Cheese) to work with on real-world applications. Students in the course presented project proposals in Fall 2015. The department chose the five most popular and applicable projects to be developed with local industry partners. Students developed a timeline, bill of materials and basic design/programming concepts. Each group of two students then started to layout, design, prototype, build, assemble, wire, program, test, troubleshoot and debug their system.
Below is a short teaser video to let you know about the amazing machines our students put together:
youtube.com/watch?v=rbyBM-43lA8
This year, students partnered with four local companies (Research Products, Tormach, Inc., Murfie.com and Grande Cheese) to work with on real-world applications. Students in the course presented project proposals in Fall 2015. The department chose the five most popular and applicable projects to be developed with local industry partners. Students developed a timeline, bill of materials and basic design/programming concepts. Each group of two students then started to layout, design, prototype, build, assemble, wire, program, test, troubleshoot and debug their system.
Below is a short teaser video to let you know about the amazing machines our students put together:
youtube.com/watch?v=rbyBM-43lA8



![CALL, PR, REPLACE commands to optimize a TPP
Each student developed 3 programs. One for each number. Programs were tested and run individually. The assignment required them to combine all three programs into one, using the CALL instruction and to optimize program flow. Students accomplished this by eliminating individual home positions in each program and replacing them with a global position [PR] in the CALL program. They also improved efficiency (run time) by replacing all SPEED motion elements to the allowed maximum of 250mm/sec.
Students developed the script, narration and video in a small group setting.
All training is offered for FREE on state of the art equipment and software through a federal grant by the Economic Development Administration (EDA) in the cities of Portage, Reedsburg and Waterloo.
Students are enrolled in Robotics for Industrial Automation - level 1 funded through the EDA. CALL, PR, REPLACE commands to optimize a TPP](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j3zbRcR4xiU/mqdefault.jpg)






