JAMESTOWN (AP) - The James Valley Career and Technology Center is bustling with students, but these days they're all adults.

Sixty local Goodrich Corp. employees have been training at the center every day for the past two weeks as the company moves its global organization to a new software system. Nearly everything the company does on computers will be transferred to the new system.

"It's the business equivalent of the extreme makeover," said Donnly Haugland, Goodrich production control manager.

Goodrich, an aerospace and defense parts supplier based in Charlotte, N.C., has a plant in Jamestown to work on air cargo systems.

Jamestown is among the first Goodrich plants to train on the new software. Within the next few weeks, all 500 of its employees will participate in training.

Company trainers were brought into Jamestown and the plant could only spare four classrooms, so officials looked to the career center.

Dan Schneibel, the center's director, said he wants to see more business and education partnering.

"The building is here and schools should work together with business and industry," he said.

Lila Ableidinger, a lead trainer, said the center "has been a godsend for us."

"They very graciously worked with us in every way, everything including making coffee," she said.

Schneibel arranged for computers and audiovisual equipment needed by Goodrich at the career center. He said the local school district's technical staff worked with Goodrich technicians to set up computers and software for the training classes.

Schneibel said the partnership with Goodrich has worked well.

"We're learning about each other," he said. "This has been a great awareness program."

Ableidinger said other Goodrich plants are now also looking into using educational facilities in their own communities.