A successful bid for £500,000 to the Stoke and Staffordshire LEP (SSLEP) and matched funding from Cannock Chase District Council means £1,000,000 will be added to the development of the Cannock Engineering Academy which will boost skills and secure jobs in and around the Cannock region and beyond. The new state-of-the-art Engineering Academy is set to open this September and will be a based at Cannock Campus part of South Staffordshire College . The Engineering Academy will provide courses, training opportunities, short courses and apprenticeships for all levels and abilities.State-of-the-art facilities are very limited locally and emerging technologies need to feature in any engineering curriculum delivery to ensure courses are relevant and therefore beneficial for engineering companies. Efficient working practices are more important than ever and factories are having to evolve to accommodate these changes. Smart factories of the future will all include sophisticated software solutions to collect, transfer and process data to analyse, simulate and improve all processes.
The Next Industrial Revolution
The new Engineering Academy is equipped with the very latest engineering machinery and resources, all of which are capable of working to the very best of industry standards and beyond, helping your company move towards the next industrial revolution. Train your staff with the skills needed to improve efficiency for your future requirements and the future of engineering.At South Staffordshire College, tutors are passionate about engineering and the skills needed within the industry. We know what local and international engineering companies expect from their future work force and we will have courses and apprenticeships available at all levels to make sure your future workforce is trained to the very highest standard.
Andy Cartwright, Director of Faculty – AgriSTEM, Construction and Engineering said, “We take pride in training engineers for the future. The Engineering Academy will make it possible for students and engineers to become experts within the industry. We have recently had the exciting delivery of an EMCOTURN E25 and Proturn SLX 1630 and as well as these fantastic state of the art CNC machines we have XYZ lathes and milling machines, Festo robotics and 3D printers. Add to these hydraulic and pneumatic training alongside PLC and AutoCAD as well as electrical engineering and we are able to train every engineer with the skills they will need for the next industrial revolution. We can’t wait to welcome students and businesses to our exciting facility.”
Dates for your diary
Interested in becoming an expert in engineering? Come along to our open day on Saturday 8th June, 10am – 1pm to see the facilities and meet the team.Register your interest in a course by emailing enquiries@southstaffs.ac.uk.
