GOLDEN NUGGET: OTC's new Plaster Advanced Manufacturing Center

GOLDEN NUGGET: OTC’s Plaster Advanced Manufacturing Center

Monday, August 15, 2022

Ozark Technical College opened a $40 million “Game Changer” in Manufacturing training within the Ozarks region. OTC opened their Plaster Advanced Manufacturing Center: a high-tech training facility. This training will allow more young people to understand manufacturing is clean, safe, interesting, in tune with the times, and trains for well-paying jobs.

Taxpayers approved a property tax increase on the April 2018 ballot, $12 million came in state funding, along with contributions from regional partners including the Robert W. Plaster Foundation. It is believed that it will have a $400 million economic impact within the region over the next decade.

The first floor will be available for area companies; DT Engineering is the first company to fill the 15,000 square foot section referred to as the “high bay”. The first floor also houses the technology lab, and the Gene Haas Precision Machining Lab. The second floor is filled with training, drafting, repair, and prototyping labs such as Emerson Innovation Discovery Lab which is a global technology and engineering company which is based in St. Louis.

The Center is home to several technical training programs at OTC, including:

• Ø  Automation and Robotics

• Ø  Cybersecurity

• Ø  Drafting and Design

• Ø  Information Technology Infrastructure

• Ø  Manufacturing Technology

• Ø  Mechatronics:  https://bit.ly/3wgO574

• Ø  Precision Machining

The FUTURE is HERE  I  The building is HERE!

Congratulations OTC, on shaping a more skillfully trained workforce.