FANUC America expands CNC training program

FANUC America is expanding its CNC training program with additional course offerings and significant facility upgrades.

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Aug 16th, 2016

FANUC America, a leading provider of CNC, robotics, and factory automation solutions, is expanding its CNC training program with additional course offerings and significant facility upgrades. FANUC currently offers a wide range of training courses covering CNC maintenance, operations and programming, servo and laser maintenance, Ladder/PMC editing, FANUC Picture Development, G-code programming, custom macro programming, conversational programming and more. FANUC training courses include hands on instruction and real-world troubleshooting and are taught by experienced professionals who have been trained at FANUC headquarters in Japan.

FANUC training program improvements include:

  • New online training courses including mill, lathe, and custom macro programming courses as well as general maintenance and integrator training
  • More than 50 new CNC systems were purchased for classroom training
  • New training facility in Auburn, WA (Seattle) and classroom upgrades at the Huntersville, NC (Charlotte) and Rochester Hills, MI (Detroit) facilities
  • Machine tools with FANUC controls installed at several FANUC locations for use in select classes

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