Hexagon partners with Centennial College to support advanced manufacturing micro-credential program

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced an industry-education partnership with Centennial College in Toronto, Ont., to support its micro-credential certification program.

The college, in cooperation with Unifor and the Ministry of Labour, Training, and Skills Development, has offered skills-based training at no cost to the unemployed and underemployed labor force in the advanced manufacturing sector.

Micro-credential programs allow students to explore potential career paths and earn qualifications in a condensed timeframe as compared to a full-time collegiate curriculum.

Centennial College offers specialized training in three specific career streams: advanced manufacturing and production, automation and industry 4.0, and quality control and assurance.

Hexagon partnered with Centennial to support the quality control and assurance stream, and fortified the program with resources from metrology equipment to educational assets for real world applications in measurement and inspection.

The intensive micro-credential program enables students to acquire skills and knowledge in-demand for Canadian manufacturing jobs. Over a period of 16 weeks, a student commits to ten hours of online and in-person learning per week, evenings, and weekends. The immersive experience in the quality stream develops work-ready graduates earning a certification from Centennial College, in addition to a certificate from Hexagon.

Centennial educators are OEM certified to train students to perform quality checks on manufactured products utilizing Hexagon’s metrology portfolio - PC-DMIS and Q-DAS software, coordinate measuring machines, and portable articulating arms used for data acquisition and management, analysis, and reporting. Upon completion of the quality stream, students also benefit from job search and placement services at the college.

Centennial’s micro-credential program has produced its first cohort of graduates, and Hexagon was among the first to hire from the quality stream.