FLATE & FloridaMakes Sponsor LIMS Edge Appliance Training

Several State College Engineering Technology faculty with their students came for training and to pick up one of the LIMS devices to take back to their college. The training was hosted by the Engineering Technology program at Hillsborough Community College on the Brandon Campus.

The Learning Integrated Manufacturing System (LIMS) provides the latest Industry 4.0 IoT Edge Platform for developing applications to bring your manufacturing system into your enterprise. The LIMS system includes a complete rules engine, over 50 I/O Interfaces, analytics along with statistics engines, and over a decade of example turn-key applications to get you started.

Adding the LIMs device to the ET programs will allow students to explore the domain of edge computing for manufacturing. LIMs is in an industrial package that collects data as the user needs and includes a complete rules engine, many Interfaces, analytics along with statistics engines. It also has over a decade of example turn-key applications to get you started.

Faculty and students at each participating college will get a LIMS device and stipends for both faculty and student/s to develop a simple demonstration project with a short video and written demonstration brief. Some projects will be showcased at the 2022 MakeMore Summit hosted by FloridaMakes (www.floridamakes.com) and the Fall 2022 ET Forum (http://fl-ate.org/programs/e-t-forum/).

Watch the LIMS Training Video from the FLATE training meeting at Hillsborough Community College last month (January 2022) for basic instruction on the capabilities of the LIMS box and how to get started using them in your ET Program or manufacturing facility.

To learn more about AMI and the LIMs device, visit their website (www.advmfg.org).

To learn more about the American Works funded project that is engaging the Florida colleges ET programs, contact Dr. Marilyn Barger (Marilyn.barger@flate.org)