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
• 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
• 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