Manufacturing Courses

Course Instructions

Face-to-face courses are delivered in or around the Port of Brownsville, unless otherwise noted. Please bring photo ID.

For more information about a course, or if a course you are interested in is no longer accepting registrations, please send an email to [email protected] or call us at (956) 524-5984 to be placed on a waitlist.

Registration for face-to-face courses for non-U.S. citizens

Most TEEX courses do not have restrictions for non-U.S. citizens; however, some courses do. Please refer to the Enrollment Requirements section of the course description to determine whether restrictions apply. Upon registration, non-U.S. citizens will be screened by the TEEX Export Control Office. If enrolling in a DHS/FEMA-funded course, participants must also complete a DHS Foreign National Screening Request Form and obtain secondary approval through the NERRTC Office prior to attending the training.

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BCS300-AC/DC Electrical Systems

This course provides the fundamentals of AC/DC electrical systems used in industrial manufacturing plant applications. Through classroom and hands-on training, trainees learn to operate, install, design, and troubleshoot basic AC/DC electrical circuits for various applications. Topics include using a voltmeter to measure voltage, calculating total parallel resistance, troubleshooting a transformer, and learning about electromagnetic devices, switches, and combination circuits.

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BCS301-Basic Hydraulics

Hydraulics training offers a comprehensive learning experience for maintenance workers seeking to acquire skills in hydraulics. The course includes gauges, manifolds, cylinders, valves, flow meter and hydraulic motors. The components of this training are industrial quality and preparing workers for real-world scenarios in their jobs. Trainees gain hands-on experience in reading a pressure gauge, monitoring liquid levels and temperature in the reservoir, connecting hydraulic circuits, operating a bi-directional hydraulic motor, and more.

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BCS302-Electrical Relay Control System

Electric Relay Control training covers concepts widely used in manufacturing and commercial applications to regulate electric motors and fluid power actuators, including identifying and solving problems in these systems. Trainees practice on a relay control panel with pre-mounted electrical control, pneumatic and electric power components. The course utilizes the Amatrol® portable electric relay control training system and its FaultPro computer-based fault insertion software to insert faults into the system for troubleshooting during the course.

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BCS303-Pneumatics

Pneumatics is used in many applications across a wide variety of manufacturing and automation processes. Pneumatics System course trainees will gain hands-on experience operating pneumatic cylinders, flow controls, directional control valves, air motors and pressure gauges. They also will learn to create working pneumatic circuits from schematics and through practice connecting and reading a flowmeter and operating a cam-operated sequence circuit.

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BCS304-Programmable Logic Controller (PLC Computer Controls)

This course teaches trainees PLC operation, programming, and event sequencing using real-world equipment like an Allen-Bradley Micro820 PLC with ten inputs and six outputs. Instructors teach maintenance workers how manual switches can be replaced by a PLC to create automated sequences by practicing skills like wiring input and output devices to a PLC and designing an actuator and motor sequence PLC program.

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BCS305-Measurement Tools

Amatrol’s Measurement Tools 1 Learning System (950-MES1) teaches learners the fundamental principles of measurement, including basic and precision measurement and direct and indirect gauging. The concepts and skills covered in Amatrol’s in-depth curriculum are critical and used in every manufacturing plant in the world by inspectors, machinists, manufacturing engineers, and others to determine if parts meet quality standards. After all, the ability to produce quality products begins with determining whether a product meets specified dimensions.

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BCS307-Mechanical Drives I

Mechanical Drives training covers the fundamentals of mechanical transmission systems and applications using chains, v-belts, spur gears, bearings, and couplings. These fundamentals can be applied to a variety of applications in the manufacturing and power industries. The classroom and hands-on training sessions demonstrate how to set up various drive systems and illustrate the results of proper alignment and efficiency.

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