Manufacturing

This course is designed to prepare students for jobs in advanced manufacturing. Topics include an introduction to safety; workplace skills; Lean manufacturing concepts; quality; understanding metals and other materials; heat treating and grinding, hand tool use; precision machining technology; careers in machining and related careers. Students will identify a career goal and create a personal resume as part of this course.

Students will learn to read blueprints and develop an understanding of how blueprints provide information necessary to control the manufacturing operation and quality outputs. Topics include terminology, standard abbreviations, the different types of lines on a blueprint, and reading different views. The course covers geometric definitions, including profiles, parallelism, and position. Both paper and electronic formats are included, students are introduced to CAD environment processes, and the English inch and Metric dimensional examples are included.

This course will cover mathematic concepts frequently used in manufacturing, including some review of fractions, decimals, algebra, ratios, data visualization and statistical measures, plane and solid geometry and applications, Cartesian coordinate system, and right triangle trigonometry with applications including vectors. Students will be introduced to semi-precision measurement and precision measurement, using both Metric and English Standard systems.

Building on the introduction to Computer Aided Design (CAD) students received in MANF120, this course will give students the opportunity to create and modify more complicated computer models of parts and assemblies. They will then use these models to produce blueprints of parts and assemblies and run simulations to test the parts in a digital model of their intended working environment. The course will also introduce students to Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM). Finally students will use CAM software to define milling operations, tooling and toolpaths that will instruct a CNC machine to cut a part from a block of material.

Ethics in manufacturing is meant to maintain high standards needed to ensure consumer safety. Compromise of process, standards, or conduct can threaten the welfare of consumers and society. In this course, students will explore how in some manufacturing processes even a slight error can cause danger, why standards are in place, and the importance of following a code of conduct.

This hands-on course prepares students for jobs as quality inspectors and CMM operators where they will inspect, test, or measure materials, products, or work for conformance to specifications. Students will use precision measuring instruments as they apply advanced quality inspection methods, processes, and standards. Students will be required to read and prepare technical documents and will use mathematical formulas to collect data and prepare reports. They will use critical thinking skills to use logic and reason to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches to problems.

This hands-on course prepares students for jobs where they will successfully operate a milling machine on CNC FANUC and Siemens controller, under the direction of the CNC supervisor. Focus is on developing the skills needed to use computer numerical control (CNC) to run a milling machine efficiently and within required quality standards. Students will be introduced to Solidworks and Mastercam, will learn the basics of writing CNC code, and will set up and run CNC milling machines. They will maintain cutting tools dedicated to composite manufacturing and perform machine maintenance.