LEAP@ForsythTech

On-the-job Training

• Inspect of Materials and Components
  • Identifies material by type
  • Converts measurements
  • Locates center lines, checks fit and form using gagging, and measures threads
• Machining Processes
  • Develops a process plan for a part requiring milling, drilling, turning, or grinding
  • Using the principles of Cartesian coordinates, develops a program for the manufacture of a simple part
  • Creates programs using a manufacturing modeling software package
  • Operates manufacturing equipment
• General Drafting and Modeling
  • Applies CAD file management practices
  • Demonstrates proficiency in solid modeling practices
  • Applies drafting standards and procedures
  • Inerprets working drawings and related technical documentation
  • Reads and interprets BOM information
  • Demonstrates best design process practices
• Design Die and Troubleshoot
  • Ensures punch is at die clearance
  • Designs guide components and checks for sharp edges on noncutting tools
  • Designs balances and levelers and sets blocks
  • Observes/Troubleshoots at press for dry run and/or tryouts
  • Designs blank/trim profiles
  • Designs shut height and sets blocks
  • Analyzes, solves, and corrects formability problems and runs at proper rate
  • Reviews Inspection results to make quality improvements/adjustments in design
  • Understands how to read strip
  • Isolates the cause of why strip is not feeding straight into or through die
  • Determines why tool steel is chipping or showing premature wear
  • Determines why die components are breaking
  • Helps isolate the cause of why a sensor has shut down the press
• Plan Job
  • Reviews and verifies prints and drawings
  • Verifies bill of materials
  • Prioritizes and schedules workflow/progression (from a design standpoint)
  • Determines availability of materials and equipment
  • Specify premanufactured commercial die components and incorporate into design
  • Determines grinding and heat-treating allowances
  • Sketches/highlights critical processing information and specs
  • Determines machining requirements and processes
  • Verifies/assesses shut height specifications, tonnage requirements, and feedline
  • Identifies and determines availability of perishable tooling
  • Determines lubrication requirements and plumbing standards
  • Assesses part and scrap-ejection methods
• Employability Skills
  • Reliably follows the instructions of others
  • Willingly asks questions about things not fully understood
  • Works with due regard for the safety of others
  • Establishes a system of maintaining appropriate notes and reminders and completes any required logs, calibration records, etc.
  • Ensures proper communications between previous and next shifts, with both operations and supervision
  • Identifies problems and changes that could lead to problems by exchanging information with operators, supervisors, and others
  • Establishes trust and rapport with operators, supervisors, and others
• Knowledge Points
  • Demonstrate understanding of surface finish requirements and how they affect part quality and die performance
  • Demonstrate understanding of mounting and checking details for fit and function, punching tools, and forming tools and components
  • Demonstrate understanding of installing and fitting cutting and drawing tools and components
  • Demonstrate understanding of installing and setting pressure devices or systems and stripping and holding devices
  • Demonstrate understanding of establishing and setting die timing and mounts/adjusts CAMs or sliding components
  • Demonstrate understanding of verifiying/adjusting slug clearance and grinds/deburrs and mount parallels
  • Demonstrate understanding of installing quality control (QC) sensors and electronics and die-protection sensors and devices
  • Demonstrate understanding of aligning upper and lower die assembly and checks/adjusting material feed and level on the bench