Wake up at the Cambria Hotel in downtown Milwaukee, grab breakfast, and meet your cohort in the lobby. The shuttle rolls out for Rockwell Automation’s Global Headquarters. By 8:00 AM, you’re on the lab floor, powering up industrial controllers, tracing signals through HMIs, and stepping through structured scenarios that mirror real production issues. After a one‑hour lunch, you dive back into hands‑on troubleshooting, refine PLC logic from earlier lessons, and run software-based exercises that sharpen diagnostic thinking. By 5:00 PM, you’ve built more confidence, checked off another module, and logged experience that translates directly to high‑demand roles with our manufacturing partners.

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