$1600

To register - Email: bethany_clark@asun.edu
 
Invoices will be sent out after the first day of class

Course Description:

Learn basic programming, maintenance and trouble-shooting PLC based industrial controls using PLC trainers with Allen Bradley/ Rockwell Automation Control-Logix hardware and Allen Bradley/Rockwell Automation RSLogix 5000 and RSLinx software. This will allow you to benefit from vendor training on specific equipment. The central processing unit is an L36 ERM. The basic operating principles of all PLCs, their inputs and outputs (discrete and analog), programming, maintenance, and networking will be covered. Hands on approach to Factory Talk View is also included.

Ken Walsh

Ken Walsh started his career as an Electrical Engineer developing automated sawmill equipment. Ken worked for Rockwell Automation for Nearly 20 years as a field support engineer.

Ready to spark a stronger future?

The manufacturing industry depends on skilled welders who build, repair, and strengthen the equipment and structures that keep production moving. Arkansas State University–Newport’s Welding Program opens the door to high-demand careers where precision, safety, and craftsmanship matter every day. In just a few months, you’ll gain the technical knowledge, hands-on lab experience, and industry-recognized credentials that employers across Arkansas are actively seeking.

Whether you’re entering the workforce for the first time or looking for a new direction, this training provides a competitive edge, practical experience, and a direct pathway to employment. It’s your opportunity to build a career with stability, strong wages, and long-term growth potential.

Class Times:

Monday to Thursday - 8:30 - 11:30

Students will be required to complete 4 hours per week of online content.

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

Students will be equipped with the foundational employability skills—such as work ethic, communication, teamwork, and problem-solving—needed to obtain and succeed in entry-level employment or advance in education and training.

Students will develop the knowledge and skills required to maintain a safe manufacturing workplace, identify hazards, follow regulatory safety procedures, and promote safe equipment operation and safety culture.

Students will develop the competencies in quality systems, measurement, inspection, data analysis, and continuous improvement to ensure products meet manufacturing specifications.

Students will gain the techncial skills to be competetive for hire as an entry level production worker or entry levle MIG welder. Upon completion, students should be able to perform fillet welds on carbon steel with prescribed electrodes in the flat and horizontal positions.

PROGRAM COURSES

Job Readiness

• Workplace Essentials
• Durable skills

 Workplace Safety

• Generial Industry OSHA 10 Card
• ASUN Certificate
• Manufacturing Skills Standards Counsel Certficate
• Credly Badge

Quality Practices & Measurement 

• Credly Badge
• ASUN Precision Measurement Certificate
• Manufacturing Skills Standards Counsel Certficate

Production Welding 

• Hands-On Experience
• 48 hours: hands-on welding training
• ASUN Certificate
• Opportunity to Earn AWS Flat Weld Certification
  

Students must be 17 at the start of the program and attend orientation.

Ready for a better career?

Whether you’re entering the workforce or looking for a higher-paying path, the Certified Production Technician (CPT) 4.0 credential can set you apart.   The CPT 4.0 credential is issued through Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) and the accredited  under ISO/IEC Standard 17024 for Personnel Certification.

High-demand, high-wage opportunities:

Northeast Arkansas has 5,000+ production jobs with average wages over $45,000 per year with many semi-skilled jobs earning over $60,000. Earning the MSSC CPT 4.0 credential gives you a strong advantage in landing these roles.

Fast, flexible, industry-driven training:

CPT 4.0 is a nationally recognized, industry-led program built with input from local manufacturers. It prepares you—from entry-level to front-line supervisor—for modern advanced manufacturing using both virtual training and hands-on labs.

• Finish in 12 weeks or less
• Hybrid, approximately 80 hours of online content plus 40 hours of labs and instruction
• Schedule weekly labs around your life
• Earn up to six certificates and one full industry certifications

What you’ll learn: CPT 4.0 training is organized into four targeted modules that build essential production skills:

Safety – OSHA standards, workplace safety, risk prevention

Quality Practices & Measurement – inspection, documentation, process control

Manufacturing Processes & Production – systems, workflow, materials handling

Maintenance Awareness – mechanical basics, electrical troubleshooting, preventive maintenance

Complete all four modules and pass the assessments to earn the full MSSC Certified Production Technician credential—a portable, respected certification recognized by employers across the manufacturing sector.

Attend class when it meets your schedule!  Weekly labs are scheduled by you to meet the demands of your life

Job Placement Services

ASUN will assist you with your job search and interview preparation. We have employers who want to see your skills!

This class is currently open as waitlist only while we work toward the minimum enrollment needed to run the session. Once enough participants have joined or approximately one week before class, we’ll convert waitlist spots into active registrations and send invoices.

This comprehensive 6-hour course will teach you how to summarize data using these powerful Excel tools, enabling you to create summary reports and charts. With Power Query and Power Pivot, you'll learn to import data from multiple sources, manipulate it, and then review the consolidated data in a pivot table using multiple tables.

This class is a perfect for those who having been using Excel for years but don't know how to use these advanced features for data visualization and analysis.

This course covers basic skills including basic parts of an Excel window, formatting, alignment, indenting, merging cells; creating a simple spreadsheet with formulas, functions, format painter, absolute reference, freezing columns and rows, split windows, copy & paste, paste special, using multiple windows of the same file, printing options, creating charts and graphs, non-adjacent cells, and mail merges.

Excel Level 1 is a great introductory class for those who are starting their Excel journey or would like to know more. Participants should already know how to find a file given a path, have basic math skills, know how to use a mouse and keyboard. Objectives in Level 1 are formatting, inputting data, creating formulas and functions, format painter, absolute reference, viewing and printing options, comments/notes, creating a template and how to use an Excel database to create a mail merge using Word.

$1600

To register - Email: bethany_clark@asun.edu 

Invoices will be sent out after the first day of class

Course Description:

Students will learn Allen Bradley VFD Powerflex HMI, including lockout procedures for safety. This class includes the following units of instruction; introduction to various types of AC motors, AC motor basics of voltage, speed, power factor, torque, and motor starting methods, VFD Basics, VFD Working Principle and Operation, VFD Control, VFD Installation (hard wiring VFD-cable termination), VFD Start-up, Soft Starter working principle, Drive software start, and Troubleshooting VFD Drives.Also includes introduction to Allen-Bradley PanelView Plus operator interface configuration and complementary ControlLogix programming, using FTView, Studio5000 and RSLinx. Variable frequency drive basics taught are the same for all VFDs regardless of brand. Includes the Laboratory Manual, Final Exam, and Certificate of Completion.

About the Instructor

Ken Walsh started his career as an Electrical Engineer developing automated sawmill equipment. He worked for Rockwell Automation for just under 20 years as a field support engineer where he saw applications everywhere imaginable. Ken is also a proud Vietnam era veteran.

This course covers naming a range, specialprinting titles of rows & columns, paste between work-sheets, pasting values and links, viewing and workingwith multiple work-sheets, 3D formulas,  protecting a workbook \ worksheet, & cells, checking for duplicates, Excel as a database, autofilters, slicers,and creating a graph with two axis.

Excel Level 2 is a continuation of Level 1, participants should have those skills before taking Excel Level 2. Course objectives are how to work with multiple files and worksheets, naming a range and benefits, sorting and filtering data using Excel as a database, tables and their benefits, data validation, sub-totals, Pivot Tables, conditional formatting, graphs with two axis and sparklines.

$1600

To register - Email: bethany_clark@asun.edu

Invoices will be sent out after the first day of class

Course Description:

In this course, you will gain a deeper understanding of project development tasks and applications, learn how to create and organize a RSLogix 5000 project, creating new programs, routines, periodic event tasks and applications. You will also learn to configure Addon instructions, User Defined Data Tables, Producer Consumer Messaging and PID.

Ken Walsh started his career as an Electrical Engineer developing automated sawmill equipment. He worked for Rockwell Automation for over 15 years as a field support engineer where he saw applications everywhere imaginable.  

• Experience in Automation Systems, software, System Design, Pneumatics, Electric Motor Drives, Panel Design, logic controllers, HMI project management, startup, troubleshooting and repair with disciplines applied across a multitude of industries.
• Broad knowledge of general automation, networks, motion control, drive systems and process control that spans across multiple control vendors.
• Experience with networks and communications includes: Controlnet, Devicenet, Ethernet, Modbus.