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Fundamentals of Metal Cutting

Course #: 386030
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Introduction to Metal Cutting
  • Fundamentals, Feed, Speed, Depth of Cut
  • Requirements for Cutting Tool Materials
  • Tool Materials
  • Carbon Tool Steels, High-Speed Steels, Carbides, Cast Alloys, Ceramics, Boron Nitride, Diamond, Abrasives
  • Principles of Single-Point Cutting
  • The Turning Tool, Tool Wear, Modern Turning Tools, and Practices
  • Other Single-Point Tools
  • Milling Cutters
  • Drills
  • Tapping, Threading, and Reaming Tools
  • Miscellaneous Multiple-Point Cutting Tools
  • Cutting Fluids
Special Notes:
  • Covers subject at an advanced, in-depth level.
  • This new course replaces courses 5021A and 386015.

Machine Shop Safety

Course #: 186007
Course Objectives:

  • Recognize the basic machine motions that can present a hazard to workers.
  • Recognize the types of machinery most likely to be hazardous to workers.
  • Understand the types of injuries caused by accidents commonly associated with unsafe machine operating procedures.
  • Discuss the importance of machine guarding and how to incorporate methods of guarding to avoid physical injury.
  • Recognize the four basic types of machine guards commonly used in industry.
  • Control various forms of hazardous machine energy through the use of lockout / tagout procedures.
  • Understand how and why to properly use personal protective equipment for added protection when using industrial equipment.

Metal Processing

Course #: 186087
Course Objectives:

  • Identify industrial metals by their names and chemical symbols.
  • Define in basic terms the characteristics and properties of metals.
  • Explain the various metal-processing methods used in producing industrial metals.
  • Explain how metals are extracted from their ores found in the earth and then refined.

Ferrous Metals

Course #: 186088
Course Objectives:

  • Identify the features of a blast furnace.
  • Recognize cast irons by their fractures and other properties.
  • Describe the major steelmaking processes.
  • Discuss the hot-working and cold-working methods used to shape steel.
  • Classify the types of steel, according to both processing method and carbon content.
  • Relate certain grade numbers to the types of steel they identify.

Nonferrous Metals

Course #: 186089
Course Objectives:

  • Explain how the various metals are extracted from their ores.
  • Describe how the addition of certain elements affects the physical properties of the base metals.
  • Select the metal alloy most suitable for a given job.
  • Recognize whether a copper alloy is a brass or a bronze.

Identification of Metals

Course #: 186090
Course Objectives:

  • Identify a metal by making a file, test magnetic test, temperature test, chip test, or spark test.
  • Find the hardness of a metal by using a Brinell-Rockwell Monotron, a Vickers-Herbert Pendulum, or a scieroscope hardness testing machine.

Layout

Course #: 3501
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Marking Devices: Punches, Scribers, Dividers, Calipers, Gages, Beam Trammels, Combination Sets, Bevel Protractors, Keyseat Clamps
  • Scribing Problems
  • Use of Bench Plates, Surface Plates, Parallels, V Blocks, and Arbors
  • How to Draw Horizontal, Vertical, and Inclined Lines
  • How to Draw a Circle or Circular Arc
  • Layout Problems: Location of Holes in a Plate
  • Location of Boundaries of Flat Surfaces
  • Marking of Lines on Curved Surfaces
  • Locating the Center of a Circle in an Opening
  • Subdividing a Circle into a Number of Equal Parts
  • Determining Required Length of Stock for Forming a Bent Part
  • Laying Out of Keyways, Templates, Castings, Cams, and Sprockets
Special Notes:
  • Covers subject at an advanced, in-depth level.

Drilling, Part 1

Course #: 386050
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Identify the parts of and explain how to use basic drill presses.
  • Identify and use various types of drill tools for counterboring, countersinking, spot facing, reaming, tapping, and hole sawing.
  • Explain how to set up various workpieces on a drill press.
  • Selecting and using tool holders and workholding devices.
  • Understand how to recondition drilling tools and maintain equipment.
Special Notes:
  • This course replaces 3521-A.

Drilling, Part 2

Course #: 386051
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Explain how to set up more complex drilling equipment included automated and CNC equipment.
  • Select and use various types of auxiliary tools with drill equipment.
  • Set up more advanced work on a drill press.
  • Select and modify drills for different materials and cutting conditions.
  • Determine the correct speeds, feeds, and coolant for a given operation.
  • Diagnose quality, tolerance, and tool-life problems, and find solutions for them.
Special Notes:
  • This course replaces 3521-B.

Lubrication, Part 1

Course #: 286091
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Describe the various types of friction.
  • Discuss how materials wear.
  • List the various functions lubricants perform in industry.
  • Explain how lubricants reduce friction.
  • Classify lubricants depending upon their composition, properties, and additives.
  • Understand why certain lubricants are chosen for certain tasks.
  • Explain how to safely handle and store lubricants.
Special Notes:
  • This updated course replaces course 2531A.
  • The entire course consists of study units 286091 and 286092.

Lubrication, Part 2

Course #: 286092
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Explain how to manually apply various types of lubricants in an industrial environment.
  • Describe total-loss lubrication.
  • Identify a nonloss lubrication system’s components and describe their operation.
  • Explain how to maintain a nonloss lubrication system.
  • Identify the proper lubrication procedures to use for special industrial applications including sealed bearings, oil-impregnated bearings and food-processing plants.
  • Explain how lubricant-conditioning systems work and how to maintain them.
  • Describe how automatic lubrication systems work and how to maintain them.
  • List the tasks involved in preventive and predictive lubrication maintenance.
Special Notes:
  • This updated course replaces course 2531B.
  • The entire course consists of study units 286091 and 286092.

Fasteners

Course #: 286095
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Identify the types and properties of fastener material.
  • Describe the components of threaded fastener systems including bolts, nuts, screws and washers.
  • Discuss the anchoring systems used in industry.
  • Identify rivets and riveting tools.
  • Describe other non-threaded fasteners including keys, pins and retaining rings.
  • Display fastener installation techniques including tensioning, torquing and lubrication.
  • Discuss how to troubleshoot fastener failure.
Special Notes:
  • This updated course replaces 2542.

Milling Machine Fundamentals

Course #: 386031
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Basic Machining Skills (Block X08)

Course Objectives:
  • Milling Process
  • General Construction of Milling Machine
  • General-Purpose Milling Machines
  • Milling Machine Attachments and Accessories
Special Notes:
  • This new course replaces courses 3522A and 386006.

Milling Machine Cutting Tools

Course #: 386032
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Milling Machine Fundamentals (386031)

Course Objectives:
  • Milling Cutter Materials
  • Milling Cutter Design
  • Milling Cutters
  • Carbide Inserts
  • Milling Techniques
  • Care and Reconditioning of Cutters
Special Notes:
  • This new course replaces courses 3522C and 386008.

Milling Machine Practice and Operation, Part 1

Course #: 386033
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Milling Machine Fundamentals (386031)

Course Objectives:
  • Kinds of Work Done on the Milling Machine
  • Cutting Speeds and Feeds
  • Preparation of Stock
  • Setting Machine
  • Setting and Holding Work on Table, in Vise, on Faceplate, in Fixtures and Chucks, and between Centers
  • Taking Cuts
  • Milling-Machine Troubles
Special Notes:
  • This new course replaces courses 2217 and 386009.

Milling Machine Practice and Operation, Part 2

Course #: 386034
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Milling Machine Fundamentals (386031)

Course Objectives:
  • Kinds of Work Done on the Milling Machine
  • Cutting Speeds and Feeds
  • Preparation of Stock
  • Setting Machine
  • Setting and Holding Work on Table, in Vise, on Faceplate, in Fixtures and Chucks, and between Centers
  • Taking Cuts
  • Milling-Machine Troubles
Special Notes:
  • This new course replaces courses 2217 and 386009.

Milling Machine Indexing and Spiral Work

Course #: 386035
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Milling Machines Fundamentals (386031)
  • Milling Machine Practice and Operation, Parts 1-2 (386033-386034)

Course Objectives:
  • Indexing
  • Direct Indexing
  • Indirect Indexing
  • Compound Indexing
  • Differential Indexing
  • Linear Indexing
  • Spiral Work
  • Generation of Helix
  • Calculation of Spiral-Head Change Gears
  • Cutting Helixes
  • Milling Cams
  • Tables
  • Simple and Differential Indexing
  • Compound Indexing
  • Bevel-Gear Dividing Head
  • Angular Indexing
  • Power Drive for Helical Milling
  • The Use of CNC in Modern Indexing and Spiral Work
Special Notes:
  • This new course replaces courses 2218 and 386014.

Lathes, Part 1

Course #: 386036
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Types of Lathes
  • Principal Parts of a Lathe
  • Speed Controls
  • Feed Controls for Tools
  • Basic Work-Holding Devices
Special Notes:
  • This new course replaces courses 3520A and 386001.

Lathes, Part 2

Course #: 386037
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Auxiliary Work-Holding Devices
  • Preparation for Machining
  • External Machining
Special Notes:
  • This new course replaces courses 3520B and 386002.

Lathes, Part 3

Course #: 386038
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Internal Machining
  • Special Lathe Operations
  • Tailstock Operations
  • Offset Turning
Special Notes:
  • This new course replaces courses 3520C and 386003.

Lathes, Part 4

Course #: 386039
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Types of Tapers
  • Taper Turning
Special Notes:
  • This new course replaces courses 3520D and 386004.

Lathes, Part 5

Course #: 386040
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Threading
  • Thread Standards and Chasing Setup: Thread Chasing and Standard Threads. Specialty Threads
Special Notes:
  • This new course replaces courses 3520E and 386005.

Automatic Screw Machines

Course #: 3530A-B
Duration: 20 hours (includes 2 tests)
Prerequisites:

  • Basic Machining Skills (Block X08)
  • Turret Lathes (3525A)
  • Turret Lathe Tools and Setups (2213)

What Students Learn:

Part 1 (3530A). Types of Automatic Screw Machines; Single-Spindle Chucking Lathe; Multiple-Spindle Chucking Lathe; Bar-Type Lathes.

Part 2 (3530B). Tools and Setups; Single-Spindle Chucking Lathe; Multiple-Spindle Chucking Lathe; Single-Spindle Bar Machine; Swiss-Type Automatic Lathe; Single-Spindle Bar Lathe; Multiple-Spindle Bar Lathe.

Turret Lathes

Course #: 3525A
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Basic Machining Skills (Block X08)

Course Objectives:
  • Turret Lathe Design
  • Ram-Type Turret Lathes
  • Saddle-Type Turret Lathes
  • Electronically Controlled Turret Lathes
  • Turret-Lathe Basic Maintenance
  • Work-Holding and Work-Feeding Devices

Turret Lathe Tools and Setups

Course #: 2213
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Turret Lathes (3525A)

Course Objectives:
  • Hexagon Turret Tool-Holding Provisions
  • Flanged, Adjustable, and Floating Holders
  • Duplex Holder
  • Center Drilling Tool
  • Knee Tool
  • Stock Stop Box Tools
  • End Former
  • Taper Turner
  • Taper Forming Box Tool
  • Chamfering Tools
  • Multiple Turning Head
  • Slide Tools
  • Boring Bars
  • Rack Tool
  • Knurling Tool
  • Collapsing Taps
  • Self-Opening Dies
  • Cross Slide Tool-Holding Provisions
  • Square Turret
  • Single Point Cutters and Holders
  • Tool Posts
  • Forming Cutters and Holders
  • Threading Toolholder
  • Tooling Principles
  • Economics of Turret Lathe Setups
  • Bar Setups
  • Chucking Setups

Fundamentals of Grinding

Course #: 386016
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Basic Machining Skills (Block X08)

Course Objectives:
  • Forms of Abrasives
  • Classification of Abrasives
  • Abrasive Grinding Processes and Machines
  • Standard Wheel Marking System
  • Abrasive Types
  • Grain Size
  • Wheel Grade, Wheel Structure, Wheel Bonds
  • Diamond and Cubic Boron Nitride Wheels
  • Wheel Grinding Machines
  • Wheel Shapes
  • Grinding Wheel Testing and Maintenance
  • Grinding Fluids or Coolants Coated Abrasives
  • Applications and Characteristics of Coated Abrasives
  • Factors Affecting Stock Removal and Finish
  • Safe Practices for Grinding
Special Notes:
  • Covers subject at an advanced, in-depth level.
  • This updated course replaces course 5023.

Cylindrical Grinding, Part 1

Course #: 386010
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Basic Machining Skills (Block X08)

Course Objectives:
  • Types of Cylindrical Grinding Machines
  • Major Units of Center-Type Grinders
  • Grinding Machine Controls
  • Grinding Wheels
  • Coolants
Special Notes:
  • This updated course replaces course 3560A.
  • The entire course consists of study units 386010-386011.

Cylindrical Grinding, Part 2

Course #: 386011
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Basic Machining Skills (Block X08)

Course Objectives:
  • General Safety Information
  • Machine Setup Procedure
  • Production Grinding
  • Roll Grinding
  • Grinding Applications
  • Troubleshooting in Cylindrical Grinding
Special Notes:
  • This updated course replaces course 3560B.
  • The entire course consists of study units 386010-386011.

Surface Grinding, Part 1

Course #: 386012
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Fundamentals of Grinding (386016)

Course Objectives:
  • Introduction to Surface Grinding
  • Types of Surface-Grinding Machines
  • Components of Surface-Grinding Machines
Special Notes:
  • This updated course replaces course 5024A.
  • The entire course consists of study units 386012-386013.

Surface Grinding, Part 2

Course #: 386013
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Fundamentals of Grinding (386016)

Course Objectives:
  • Preparing the Abrasive Wheel for Surface Grinding
  • Surface Grinder Operations
  • Surface Finish and Measurement
Special Notes:
  • This updated course replaces course 5024B.
  • The entire course consists of study units 386012-386013.

Inspection of Shop Products

Course #: 5962
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Introduction to Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry (Block X02)

Course Objectives:
  • Specifications for Inspection
  • Tolerances, and Allowances
  • Standards
  • First-Piece Inspection
  • Automatic Machine-Product Inspection
  • Patrol Inspection
  • Batch Inspection
  • Final Inspection
  • Screw Inspection
  • Measuring Threads
  • Three-Wire Methods
  • Thread Gages
  • Comparators
  • Measuring Spur Gears
  • Gaging Odd Teeth
  • Recurring Inspection
  • Ultrasonic Equipment
  • Dynamic Balances
  • Inspection of Machined Castings
  • Spectrographic Testing

Quality Control for the Technician

Course #: 386E02
Duration: 70 hours (includes 7 tests)
Prerequisites:

  • Basic Industrial Math (Block X21)

What Students Learn:

Part 1 (386026). Lesson 1 - Total Quality Management for Technicians:

Quality Systems, Communication, and Motivation; Total Quality Management (TQM) Tools, Responsibilities and Systems; Quality Costs: Identifying, Controlling, Minimizing, Reporting and Analysis; Planning and Conducting Audits; Inspection Systems and Planning.

Lesson 2 - Blueprint and GD&T System Interpretation for Inspection:

Using Engineering Prints for Inspection; Working with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Systems; Graphical Inspection Analysis Procedures and Advantages.

Part 2 (386027). Lesson 3 - Common Inspection Tools:

Measurement Tools, Accuracy and Errors; Spring Calipers; Gage Blocks; Indicators; Micrometers and Vernier Instruments; Hole, Attribute, and Radius Gages; Tapered Parallels; Measuring Threads; Calibration Techniques.

Lesson 4 - Surface Plate Inspection Methods: · Surface Plates and Gages: Care of Equipment; Measuring Various Attributes with Surface Plates.

Lesson 5 - Special Measurement Equipment and Techniques: · Digital Measuring Equipment; Using Optical Flats; Measuring Surface Finish; Pneumatic Comparators; Circularity and Cylindricity; Optical Comparators; Coordinate Measurement Machines (CMM’s); Hardness Testing.

Lesson 6 - Lot by Lot Acceptance: · Basic Probability; Sampling Verses 100% Inspection; Lot-by-Lot, Process Control and Random Sampling; Using Mil-Std-105E for Sampling; Dodge-Romig Tables; Mil-Std-414; Variable Sampling Tables; Operating Characteristic Curves.

Lesson 7 - Statistical Process Control in Practice: Objectives and Tools for Process Control; Computing Average, Range and Standard Deviation; Control and Specification Limits; Identifying Processes In-Control; Plotting Techniques; Control Charts and Pattern Analysis; Process Capability.

Special Notes:
  • This course consists of a textbook and two supplemental study guides. We recommend the course be purchased in its entirety. However, if needed due to targeted training, study guides (Parts 1 and 2) can be purchased separately, with or without the textbook. Note that the textbook is required for the Part 1 study guide. Call Customer Service for pricing and ordering information.

Boring Mills

Course #: 5636A
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Fundamentals of Boring Mills
  • Basic Functions
  • Vertical Boring Mills
  • Horizontal Boring Mills
  • Attachments and Accessories
  • Special Boring Mills
  • Boring Mill Motions
  • Boring Operations

Planers

Course #: 6118
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Shapers, Slotters, and Keyseaters (2222)

Course Objectives:
  • Planer Cutting Action
  • Bed and Table Construction
  • Drive and Lubrication Systems
  • Column, Crossrail, and Toolhead Construction
  • Counterbalancing and Power Swiveling System
  • Automatic Feed and Rapid-Power Traverse Systems
  • Elevating and Clamping Mechanisms
  • Pendant Stations
  • Cutters
  • Feeds and Speeds
  • Work-Setting Equipment
  • Planer Practice

Broaching

Course #: 6091
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Broaching Principle
  • Broaching Tools
  • Internal Broaching
  • Pull and Push Broaches
  • Chip Breakers
  • Burnishers
  • Manual and Automatic Broach Pullers
  • Surface Broaches
  • Broaching Machines
  • Broaching Press
  • Broaching Fixtures
  • Broaching Practice
  • Cutting Speeds
  • Cutting Oils
  • Chip Disposal
  • Dislodging a Stuck Broach

Shapers, Slotters, and Keyseaters

Course #: 2222
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Horizontal Reciprocating Equipment
  • Crank-Driven Shapers
  • Stroke Length
  • Ram Quick-Return Motions
  • Stroke Area
  • Rapid-Power Traverse
  • Universal Shaper
  • Hydraulic Shaper
  • Draw-Cut Shaper
  • Work-Holding Devices
  • Automatic Tool Lifter
  • Index Centers
  • Cutting Tools
  • Setting Length and Position of Stroke
  • Overtravel and Machine Time
  • Speeds and Feeds
  • Horizontal, Vertical, and Angular Shaping
  • Duplicating
  • Slotters and Slotter Practice
  • Keyseaters
  • Keyseater Bars and Cutters

Nontraditional Machining Technologies

Course #: 386029
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Fundamentals of Metal Cutting (386030)

Course Objectives:
  • Explain how electrical discharge machining (EDM) works.
  • Describe the difference between wire and ram EDM.
  • Explain how laser light is produced and how lasers are used in industrial settings.
  • Explain why a plasma cutting torch is so much hotter than other types of cutting torches.
  • Describe the difference between chemical and electro-chemical machining.
  • Explain how water can be made to cut steel.
  • Describe the common manufacturing methods of rapid prototyping

Hardening and Tempering

Course #: 3195
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Methods of Heat Treatment
  • Gas-Fired and Electric Furnaces
  • Controlled Atmospheres
  • Heating Baths
  • Crucible Furnace
  • Oil and Air Tempering Furnaces
  • Quenching Baths
  • Quenching Tanks
  • Heat-Treating Operations
  • Composition, Properties, and Uses of Carbon Tool Steel
  • Heating and Cooling for Annealing
  • Heating for Hardening
  • Oil-Hardening Steels
  • Air-Hardening Steels
  • High-Carbon, High- Chromium Tool Steels
  • Chisel Steels
  • Hardening and Tempering Taps and Reamers
  • Twist Drills
  • High-Speed Steel Saws
  • Springs and Chromium-Steel Rolls
  • Heat Treatment of Dies, Forged Chisels, and Rock Drills
  • Structures of Alloy Steels
  • High-Frequency Hardening
  • Dielectric Heating

Tool Grinding

Course #: 386017
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Fundamentals of Grinding (386016)

Course Objectives:
  • Wheel Selection and Shapes
  • Oilstones
  • Honing Cutting Tools
  • Grinding Single-Point Tools
  • Angle Calculations
  • Universal Grinder
  • Drill Grinding
  • Testing Drill Points
  • Grinding Milling Cutters
  • Clearance Grinding
  • Tooth Rest
  • Grinding Side, Shank Angular, Inserted-Blade, and Helical Cutters
  • Grinding Circular Saws, Formed Cutters, Gear Cutters, Hobs, Reamers, Taps, Radial, and Tangential Chasers
  • Grinding Carbide Tools
  • Grinding Internal and Slab Broaches
Special Notes:
  • This updated course replaces course 5349.

Tool Dressing

Course #: 3194
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Inspection of Steels
  • Cutting and Heating Tool Steel
  • Forging Tools
  • Tipping Forged Tools
  • Annealing, Hardening, and Tempering
  • Colors Corresponding to Hardening Temperatures
  • Heating Furnaces
  • Heating Baths
  • Tempering Furnace
  • Quenching Baths
  • Annealing, Hardening, and Tempering High-Speed Steel

Gear Calculations

Course #: 2243
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Kinds of Gears
  • Spur Gears
  • Spur-Gear Calculations in Circular-Pitch System and in Diametral-Pitch System
  • Involute System
  • Form of Helical Gear
  • Helical-Gear Calculations
  • Bevel Gears
  • Laying Out Bevel Gears
  • Spiral-Bevel Gears
  • Worms and Worm Gears
  • Worm-Gear and Worm Calculations
  • Spiral Gears
  • Spiral-Gear Calculations

Gear Making

Course #: 5532A-B
Duration: 20 hours (includes 2 tests)
Prerequisites:

  • Practical Measurements (Block X22)
  • Plane Trigonometry (2309A-B)
  • Milling Machine Practice and Operation (386033 and 386034)
  • Milling Machine Indexing and Spiral Work (386035)
  • Gear Calculations (2243)

What Students Learn:

Part 1 (5532A). Processes; Cutters; Tooth Dimensions; Milling Spur Gear; Helical Gears; Bevel Gears; Worm Gears; Internal Gears; Planning; Generating; Herringbone Gears.

Part 2 (5532B). Hobbing; Spiral Bevels; Hypoids; Gear Finishing; Rack Shaving; Rotary Shaving; Curve Shaving; Burnishing; Lapping; Grinding; Gear Inspection; Gear Materials; Heat Treatment; Flame Hardening.

Manufacturing Processes, Part 1

Course #: 186075
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Relate historical trends in manufacturing to modern ones
  • Describe the development and importance of modern quality systems
  • Explain how available material types shape manufacturing processes
  • Describe early factory systems and their impact on modern systems
  • Classify modern manufacturing systems by type and abilities
Special Notes:
  • This course replaces 2520A

Manufacturing Processes, Part 2

Course #: 186076
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Explain the relationship between atomic structure and material properties
  • Classify materials used in manufacturing based on physical and mechanical properties
  • Identify benefits and drawbacks of specific materials for a given application
  • Interpret the classifications of various metallic materials
  • Compare properties of various metallic materials
  • Identify properties of and applications for various nonmetallic materials
Special Notes:
  • This course replaces 2520B

Manufacturing Processes, Part 3

Course #: 186077
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Describe common methods and applications for casting metals and plastics
  • Describe and contrast various forming processes including forging, drawing, and others
  • Differentiate between the benefits and costs of casting and forming processes
  • Explain how the various conventional metal-removal technologies are used in manufacturing
  • Identify the benefits of and range of applications for robotics and CNC systems in manufacturing
  • Describe the benefits and costs of non-contact metal removal and shaping processes
Special Notes:
  • This course replaces 2520C

Manufacturing Processes, Part 4

Course #: 186078
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Course Objectives:

  • Relate the factors of production to how a given manufacturing organization is structured
  • List the types of manufacturing production systems
  • Suggest modifications of equipment layout to improve productivity
  • Evaluating automation strategies and problems
  • Benefits of quality management methods
  • Describe their role in JIT, Lean, and e Manufacturing systems
Study Units:
  • This course replaces 2520D

CNC Technology and Programming

Course #: 066903
Duration: 45 hours (includes 3 tests)
Prerequisites:

  • Basic Machining Skills (Block X08)

Course Objectives:
  • Numerical Control Basics; The History of Numerical Control; The Computer; Input Media; How Numerical Control Operates; Machine Tools.
  • CNC System Programming; Programming Data; Simple Programming; Angular and Contour Programming; Miscellaneous Numerical Control Functions.
  • Types of CNC Equipment; Machining Centers; Chucking and Turning Centers; Electrical Discharge Machining; Numerical Control and the Future.

CNC Turning

Course #: 386041
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • CNC Technology and Programming (066903)

Course Objectives:
  • Apply of canned cycles, subroutines, and loops in real-world programming applications.
  • Modify and adapt basic programs and commands to develop advanced turning programs.
  • Use special codes to automate complete jobs, including programming for maximum production efficiency.
  • Affect of some CNC operations on cutting speeds and feed rates.
  • Correct common problems such as unacceptable part size and out-of- tolerance feature locations.

CNC Milling

Course #: 386042
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • CNC Technology and Programming (066903)

Course Objectives:
  • Apply of canned cycles, subroutines, and loops in real-world programming applications.
  • Modify and adapt basic programs and commands to develop advanced milling programs.
  • Use special codes to automate complete jobs, including programming for maximum production efficiency.
  • Affect of some CNC operations on cutting speeds and feed rates.
  • Correct common problems such as unacceptable part size and out-of- tolerance feature locations.

Toolholding Systems

Course #: 386028
Duration: 10 hours (includes 1 test)
Prerequisites:

  • Fundamentals of Metal Cutting (386030)

Course Objectives:
  • Understand the fundamental characteristics of toolholders required for various machine tools.
  • Understand and describe how the toolholder affects the quality of the machining operation.
  • Interpret national standards for tool and toolholder identification systems.
  • Understand the differences in toolholder tapers and the proper applications for each type of taper.
  • Understand and describe the effects of toolholder concentricity and imbalance

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