About Tech-Labs
Tech-Labs was founded on a simple belief: educators and industry deserve more than equipment—they deserve a partner committed to helping learners succeed.
In 1979, Tim and Dede Brown established Tech-Labs after recognizing the need for a company that would focus on long-term customer partnerships, innovative training technologies, and solutions designed to keep pace with an evolving workforce. Nearly 50 years later, that commitment continues to guide everything we do.
We partner with educational institutions, workforce development organizations, and industrial training programs to design, implement, and support hands-on learning environments. Whether you are creating a new technical training program or modernizing an existing lab, our team helps connect your goals with the right equipment, curriculum, technologies, and services.
Tech-Labs is more than an equipment supplier. We are a workforce training solutions partner focused on helping customers build programs that develop practical skills, support industry-recognized competencies, and prepare learners for high-demand careers.
What Does Tech-Labs Do?
Tech-Labs provides technical education and workforce training solutions for schools, colleges, universities, apprenticeship programs, workforce organizations, and industry.
Our team helps customers plan and equip training programs across advanced manufacturing, automation, robotics, industrial maintenance, electrical systems, engineering, additive manufacturing, healthcare simulation, renewable energy, transportation, and other high-demand technical fields.
Effective training programs require more than individual pieces of equipment. They require a clear understanding of the skills learners need, how instruction will be delivered, and how the program will adapt as technology and workforce demands evolve.
Tech-Labs supports customers through every stage of the process, including:
- Program Planning: Identifying training objectives, learner needs, industry expectations, available space, and long-term program goals.
- Solution Development: Selecting equipment, software, curriculum, and technologies that work together as a complete training solution.
- Lab Design and Integration: Helping customers organize training spaces, utilities, equipment placement, safety considerations, and instructional workflows.
- Implementation: Coordinating delivery, installation, commissioning, and instructor orientation.
- Ongoing Support: Providing technical assistance, preventative maintenance, additional training, and guidance as programs grow.
Tech-Labs represents leading manufacturers of technical training systems, industrial technologies, engineering equipment, simulation solutions, and educational curriculum.
Our manufacturer relationships allow us to recommend solutions based on each customer’s objectives rather than relying on a single product line or technology. We bring together equipment, curriculum, software, services, and support to help customers create meaningful learning experiences and protect their long-term investment.
- Training program consultation and planning
- Equipment and technology selection
- Lab layout and equipment integration
- Curriculum and competency alignment
- Installation and commissioning
- Instructor orientation and professional development
- Preventative maintenance and technical support
- Program expansion and modernization
Tech-Labs works with organizations at every level of technical education and workforce development.
Secondary Education and CTE Programs
We help middle schools, high schools, career academies, and CTE centers introduce students to technical careers while developing foundational, employable skills.
Postsecondary and Technical Colleges
We support community colleges, technical colleges, and universities with training solutions that connect classroom instruction to laboratory experience and workforce expectations.
Apprenticeship and Workforce Development Programs
We help apprenticeship programs, workforce boards, correctional education programs, and community training organizations prepare learners for entry-level employment and career advancement.
Industry and Corporate Training
We work with manufacturers, utilities, distribution facilities, and other employers to support onboarding, cross-training, upskilling, reskilling, safety, maintenance, and technical workforce development.
Tech-Labs supports a wide range of technical education and workforce development programs. The training areas below represent many of our most popular solutions, but they are only a sample of the technologies and industries we serve. If your program isn't listed, our team can help identify the right training solution to meet your specific goals.
- Advanced manufacturing
- Industrial automation and robotics
- Industrial maintenance and reliability
- Electrical and electronic systems
- Mechatronics
- Engineering and engineering technology
- Additive manufacturing and 3D printing
- Machining and CNC technologies
- Welding and fabrication
- Renewable and alternative energy
- Transportation and automotive technologies
- Healthcare and emergency medical simulation
- Virtual reality and simulation-based training
- Metrology, inspection, and quality assurance
Available solutions and services may vary by location, manufacturer territory, and customer requirements.
Experience Since 1979
For nearly five decades, Tech-Labs has helped customers evaluate emerging technologies, develop new programs, modernize laboratories, and strengthen technical instruction.
A Partnership-Based Approach
We take time to understand each organization’s learners, instructors, facilities, workforce priorities, budget, and long-term goals before recommending a solution.
Industry-Relevant Technologies
We partner with recognized manufacturers whose technologies reflect the systems, processes, tools, and skills used in modern workplaces.
Implementation and Support
Our relationship does not end when equipment is delivered. We help customers install, understand, maintain, and expand their training solutions.
Solutions That Can Grow
We help organizations establish a strong foundation and develop a plan to add new technologies, credentials, competencies, and training capacity over time.
At Tech-Labs, we are driven to improve the critical skills gap facing our nation and industry partners.
Our mission is to help educators and industry develop confident, capable learners through relevant technologies, hands-on training, strong partnerships, and dependable support.
We believe that effective workforce development begins by understanding the skills organizations need and providing learners with opportunities to practice those skills in meaningful, real-world environments.
Build or Modernize Your Training Program
Whether you are planning one lab, expanding an existing program, or developing a comprehensive workforce training center, Tech-Labs can help you identify the right path forward.
Frequently Asked Questions About Tech-Labs
Tech-Labs is a technical education and workforce training solutions provider. We help schools, colleges, workforce organizations, apprenticeship programs, and industry plan, implement, and support hands-on technical training programs.
Technical Laboratory Systems, Inc., commonly known as Tech-Labs, was incorporated in Texas in 1979 to help meet the growing need for technical and vocational education.
No. Tech-Labs provides complete training solutions that may include consultation, equipment, software, curriculum, lab planning, installation, instructor orientation, preventative maintenance, and ongoing technical support.
Yes. Tech-Labs works with middle schools, high schools, CTE programs, colleges, universities, workforce development organizations, apprenticeship programs, manufacturers, and corporate training facilities.
Tech-Labs supports programs in advanced manufacturing, automation, robotics, mechatronics, industrial maintenance, electrical technology, engineering, additive manufacturing, machining, welding, renewable energy, healthcare simulation, transportation, and related technical fields.
Yes. Tech-Labs can help customers evaluate program goals, available space, equipment needs, utilities, instructional workflow, curriculum requirements, implementation, and opportunities for future expansion.
Yes. Our team can help evaluate existing equipment and curriculum, identify training gaps, recommend updates, integrate new technologies, and create a phased modernization plan.
Tech-Labs offers installation, commissioning, instructor orientation, training, technical support, and maintenance services for many of the solutions we provide. Service availability depends on the product, project, and customer location.
