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GYS Training Academy

Learn the machine. One chapter at a time.

Short video courses for the people who own, run and sell GYS equipment in the US — setup, first welds, daily care and the technique that gets the job right. Each chapter unlocks when you’ve watched the one before it, and your progress is saved.

Chapter by chapter short videos, shot in real shops
Progress saved pick up where you left off
Reviewed before it goes live every course, every chapter
Open to every trainer importers, dealers, OEMs, instructors
The library

Courses

Changing the arm on a GYSPOT PTI Genius double-sided gunFilming now

GYSPOT PTI Genius — Welder Training 101

Day one on the PTI Genius: safety, power-up, caps and tips, metal prep, your first weld in automatic mode, checking the weld, shunting, the double-sided gun and boom, and daily care.

Collision repairOwners & technicians
GYS trainees in welding helmets listening to an instructorYour course here

Built a good GYS training?

Put it in front of every GYS shop in the country. Send it in and we’ll review it, build it chapter by chapter and credit you on it.

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Sign in to GYS Training Academy

Your courses, your progress and anything new we’ve added for your machines.

Earn as you learn

Every course a technician finishes earns the GYS badge for that machine. Finish every course in a category and you earn a Certificate of Training for the shop wall.

Spot welding
Riveting
MIG welding
Dent pulling
Inside GYS Training Academy

What your technicians see when they sign in.

Preview for illustration. Course and chapter names shown as an example.

Chapter by chapter

Short videos in order. The next chapter unlocks once the one before it has been watched all the way through.

Progress that’s saved

Every technician has their own login. Stop mid-course and pick up where you left off, on the shop PC or a phone.

Badges your techs earn

Finish a course, earn the GYS badge for that machine. Finish every course in a category and earn a Certificate of Training.

Spot welding
Riveting
MIG welding
Dent pulling
Certificate of Training

Finish the category. Hang the certificate.

Complete every course in a category and pass the final assessment, and you earn a signed Certificate of Training for the shop wall — with your name, your hours and the chapters you completed on it.

  • Spot welding, MIG, riveting, dent pulling, structural pulling and induction
  • A GYS badge for every course you finish along the way
  • Something to show customers that your techs are trained on the equipment
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Sample Certificate of Training for Riveting, earned by a body shop technician, with the Riveting badge and signatures
Sample certificate shown.
How it works

From this page to your first chapter.

1

Request access

Tell us who you are and which GYS machine you run. Two minutes.

2

Get your invitation

A person sets up your login and emails the invite — within one business day.

3

Watch in order

Short chapters. Each one unlocks when you’ve watched the last all the way through.

4

Come back anytime

Your progress is saved. New courses for your machines show up in the same place.

Request access

Get your GYS Training login.

Your invitation and sign-in come to this address.
Optional. Helps us match the right course to your machine.
Answered by a person, one business day or faster.
Who it’s for

Owners, techs and dealers

If you own, run, sell or service GYS equipment in the US, you’re in the right place. Training for your whole crew? Say how many people in the notes and we’ll set everyone up.

Need help with a machine now?

Ask a technician

Don’t wait for a course. A GYS-trained tech answers questions, datasheets and manuals within one business day.

Submit a training

Teach every GYS shop in the country.

Reviewed by a person before anything is published.
Who can submit

Anyone who teaches GYS

GYS importers, dealers and distributors, OEM programs, and industry trainers — I-CAR instructors included — are all welcome. So are the techs who know a machine better than anyone.

What happens next

Reviewed, built, credited

1. A person reviews it for technical accuracy.
2. We build it into chapters, with a quiz where it helps.
3. It goes live with a credit to you or your organization.

You keep ownership of what you send. You grant the right to host it on GYS Training Academy, and you can ask for it to come down at any time.
Buying a machine?

Training starts with the right dealer.

Your GYS dealer delivers, installs and trains your technicians in your shop. The courses here keep them sharp after.