The rooms are outfitted with a range of capabilities, including pneumatic equipment and proper connections for welding and other industrial tasks. The second function of the ETC is to provide training in high-tech skills, particularly those needed for manufacturing and distribution businesses that want to make the most of the kind of advanced logistical practices that the GTP will support, Blizzard said. An array of distance-learning equipment at the Center means training can be extremely specialized and will be capable of connecting students and instructors worldwide. But at the same time, it is extremely easy for our staff or the ETC s users to operate. If you can read and push a button, you can make it work.
Every room offers a multitude of places to plug in a computer and connect to the Internet.
More than 32 miles of fiber-optic cable connect all of the computers to each other and to the rest of the world. The idea was to build something that would be flexible and adaptable for industries, Blizzard said whether they are a computer chip maker or a bulldozer manufacturer.