Manufacturing and industrials

AI and robotics training for manufacturing and industrials

This is the sector where the robotics catalogue does most of its work, and where the gap is rarely engineering. It is the operators who have to run the cell, the supervisors who have to keep it safe, and the managers who have to specify the next one without repeating what went wrong with the last. Training runs on the plant's own processes, on the machines actually in use.

Robotics as an operational question rather than an engineering one. Not how they are built, how they are put to work.

Built around manufacturing and industrials work

9 courses · 58 facilitated hours

Applied roboticsLeadership5 hrsIn person / Live online

Robotics Investment and the Operating Model

A half-day for the people signing the cheque. Where the payback actually comes from, what it costs to run once the integrator leaves, and who in your organisation owns it on a Tuesday.

Addresses: Culture & Support, Responsible Use

Director / Head of, Executive / C-Suite

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Applied roboticsManager5 hrsIn person / Live online

Preparing Your Team for Automation

The robot is the easy part. This course is for the managers whose people will work differently once it arrives: what to say and when, which roles change and how, and the skills plan that makes the change fair.

Addresses: Culture & Support, Confidence & Skills

Team Lead, Manager, Director / Head of

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Applied roboticsManager7 hrsIn person

Safety, Risk and Compliance for Robotic Workcells

The duties that sit with whoever runs the cell: risk assessment, guarding and interlocks, safe systems of work, and the records an inspector will ask to see. Delivered against your own site.

Addresses: Responsible Use, Culture & Support

Team Lead, Manager, Director / Head of

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Applied roboticsManager8 hrsIn person / Live online

Specifying a Robotics Deployment

The document that decides whether a deployment succeeds is written before anyone quotes for it. Covers requirements, integrator selection, acceptance testing, and the clauses people wish they had insisted on.

Addresses: Tools & Access, Responsible Use

Manager, Director / Head of

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Applied roboticsPractitioner5 hrsIn person / Live online

Robotics: What It Can and Cannot Do

A grounded introduction for people whose work is about to involve a robot. Separates what the technology genuinely does well from what the trade press implies, using real deployments and real failure modes.

Addresses: Confidence & Skills, Tools & Access

Individual Contributor, Team Lead, Manager

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Applied roboticsPractitioner8 hrsIn person / Blended

Running and Troubleshooting a Robotic Cell

For the people who own the cell on a shift. Covers the routine - changeovers, first-off checks, common faults - and the judgement of when to fix, when to stop, and when to call someone.

Addresses: Daily Practice, Tools & Access

Individual Contributor, Team Lead

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Applied roboticsPractitioner5 hrsIn person / Blended

Vision Systems and Automated Inspection

Cameras that inspect every part sound simple until lighting drifts, false rejects pile up, and nobody trusts the reject bin. Hands-on with how inspection systems actually behave and how to keep them honest.

Addresses: Tools & Access, Daily Practice

Individual Contributor, Team Lead

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Applied roboticsPractitioner7 hrsIn person / Live online

Warehouse and Logistics Automation in Practice

Automated storage, mobile robots and conveyor systems as they actually behave in a working site: at peak, with awkward stock, and when one unit goes down mid-shift.

Addresses: Daily Practice, Tools & Access

Individual Contributor, Team Lead, Manager

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Applied roboticsPractitioner8 hrsIn person / Blended

Working Alongside a Cobot

Collaborative robots share a workspace with people, which makes them an operational and behavioural question rather than only a technical one. Hands-on with the daily reality: starting it, guiding it, stopping it, and knowing when not to.

Addresses: Confidence & Skills, Daily Practice

Individual Contributor, Team Lead

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What this sector brings into the room

The integrator leaves and the cell becomes yours
Running and troubleshooting a robotic cell, first-line diagnosis, when to escalate and when not to. The cost of a stopped line is usually the argument that wins the training budget.
Safety is a working practice, not a document
Guarding, risk assessment, and the habits that survive a busy shift. Supervisors work through their own workcells rather than a textbook layout.
Specifying the next deployment properly
What to ask for, what the payback actually depends on, what it costs to run once the integrator has gone, and who inside the business owns it afterwards.
The operations system is a spreadsheet
A large amount of manufacturing runs on one workbook that one person understands. The technology track deals with that honestly, including when to leave it alone.

Which of these does your organisation actually need?

The readiness assessment scores each person across five dimensions and maps the gaps onto this catalogue, by department and by role. Five minutes per person, and it answers the question with a measurement rather than a guess.