Today, the Institute of Advanced Learning & Research showed off their new CAPSTONE project. This is a project that will train people to use highly technical machinery. The belief is that once a sizable workforce is trained, industries will want to locate their new factories in the Southside region. Today, we’ll going to take a look at the labs while they’re still under construction.
The majority of these machines will be replaced every two years to make sure that the technology is the latest available. Let’s start the first part of our PhotoCentral tour.
We start our tour in the lobby of the Charles Hawkins building on the back side of the Institute campus.
This will be the metrology lab. Finished part can be quality checked and measured down to 40 microns.
Here’s a closeup of one of the measuring machines. They are still being taken out of the shipping containers.
I have no idea what this machine is, but it’s in the metrology lab.
This machine can be programmed to make any part that you want. It works with metals or polymers. One of the guides pointed at my camera and said it could make the hard plastic body of it.
This is the inside or the machinery lathe. According to our tour guides, it can rotate a part on 5 axes. No, I don’t understand that either.
Here’s the control panel on the machine that “made things”. you can see what CAPSTONE training will be up to one year long.
This machine costs around $75,000.
This is one of the grinders used in precision machinery.
The CAPSTONE lab will be set up just like an assembly line would be in a factory. Parts go from one machine to the next in a workflow. This will train people so that they will be ready to hit the production floor as soon as they’re hired. We’ll have more from the CAPSTONE lab tour coming up on SouthsideCentral.
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