Black Country high value manufacturing (HVM) companies can benefit from subsidised training support through the Black Country Skills Factory and bite-size courses taking place in March and April 2015 (subject to availability).
Important subsidy information
Skills Factory project funding will officially come to an end in March 2015. To qualify for subsidy support, all courses must be booked by 31 March 2015. Although we will still be brokering courses beyond this point; it is unlikely that subsidies will still be available for companies. Please call Colin Parker on 07944 268709 if you have any concerns.
March and April bite-size courses
Maintenance Multi-skilling & Production Setting:
Basic Pneumatic Systems  09/03, 13/04.
Basic Hydraulic Systems  07/04/2015.
Intermediate Pneumatics/Hydraulics (Electro Control) Â 16/03, 20/04.
Welding & Fabrication:
Tig Welding (Introductory / Improver levels available) Â various dates available*
Mig Welding (Introductory / Improver levels available) Â various dates available*
Aluminium Tig Welding  various dates available*
CNC Machining & Setting:
Vertical & Horizontal Milling  Fanuc Control Programming  various supported courses available*
Vertical & Horizontal Milling  Heidenhain Control Programming  various supported courses available*
CNC Turning  Fanuc Control Programming  various supported courses available*
Metal treatment, Metallurgy & Toolroom:
Metallurgy for non-Metallurgists  various dates available*
Principles of Heat Treatment  16/04/2015.
Non Destructive testing of metals  (principles)  various dates available*
Computer Aided Design:
AutoCAD 2D: Flexible learning (30hrs). Drop in Thursdays 10am-5pm.
SolidWorks  Solid Modelling: Flexible learning (40hrs). Drop in Thursdays 10am-5pm.
*Click on course titles to register your interest in this course online.
We have many other courses that can be arranged at short notice. A selection of the most popular ones are detailed below. Click on course titles to enquire online:
Advanced Pneumatics/Hydraulics (PLC)
Factory Electrical Power Supplies
Switches, Relays and Sensors
Electric Motors and Drives
Introductory Mitsubishi PLC
Course information and booking
Course information: click on course titles for further course details.
Course costs: a 30% subsidy is offered to Black Country HVM companies off the cost of the above courses.
Course booking: Click on course titles and book directly through the Skills Factory website. Bookings are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
www.blackcountryskillsfactory.co.uk/courses
