Chaffey College

On-the-job Training

• Industrial Safety
  • Acquire PPE and tools according to safety protocol
  • Install lockout protective devices
  • Comply with safety requirements and standards and initiate safety protocols at all times
  • Identify, report & take corrective action on unsafe & out-of-compliance conditions and behaviors regarding safety
  • Comply with environmental regulations
  • Test for proper operation
  • Return machine to service
  • Set up and test industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly
  • Operate equipment to demonstrate proper use or to analyze malfunctions
  • Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, and quality control
  • Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures and strategies related to employer
  • Interpret the National Electrical Code (NEC) and use its applications in the field
  • Select and analyze the proper codes for any application of the code in the field
  • Properly examine material safety data sheets, lockout/tag out procedures, and protective clothing
  • Summarize OSHA Act/General Safety and Health Provisions according to standards
• Preventative Maintenance
  • Perform preventative maintenance on the various production and warehouse systems
  • Develop and upgrade preventative maintenance procedures for components, equipment, parts and systems
  • Perform preventative maintenance and calibration of equipment and systems
  • Perform scheduled preventative maintenance tasks, such as checking, cleaning or repairing equipment, to detect and prevent problems
  • Maintain equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations or tests
  • Watching gauges, dials or other indicators to make sure machine is working properly
  • Conducting tests and inspection of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance
  • Test electrical equipment or systems to ensure proper functioning
  • Adjust equipment to ensure optimal performance
  • Maintain repair or maintenance records
  • Maintain work equipment or machinery
  • Maintain inventories of materials, equipment or products
  • Connect a voltmeter, ammeter, wattmeter to a circuit and record readings
  • Connect a DC series motor and in parallel
  • Connect a capacitor, resistor and an inductor in series and calculate the voltages drop
  • Define the differences between single and three phase transformers related to industry applications
  • Define the differences between single and three phase motors related to industry applications
  • Calculate values pertaining to three-phase motor controls and wire the same
  • Analyze the basic construction of an AC axis drive control section
  • Monitoring/assessing performance of machines and equipment
• Troubleshooting/Repair/Installation - Electrical Equipment
  • Perform diagnostic testing and root cause analysis
  • Adjust and replace defective or improperly functioning circuitry and electrical components
  • Assemble, test, and maintain electrical equipment
  • Identify and resolve equipment malfunctions
  • Modify electrical prototypes, parts, assemblies, and systems to correct functional deviations
  • Emergency repairs for temporary maintenance of service
  • Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment or software, and applying knowledge of the functional operation of electronic units and systems
  • Repair or adjust equipment, machines or defective components, replacing worn parts, such as gaskets or seals in watertight electrical equipment
  • Inspect components of industrial equipment for accurate assembly and installation or for defects, such as loose connections or frayed wires
  • Install repaired equipment in various settings, such as industrial establishments
  • Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools
  • Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it
  • Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed
  • Installing equipment, machines, wiring or programs to meet specifications
  • Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning or testing machines, devices and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical)
  • Inspecting equipment, structures or materials to identify the cause of erros or other problems or defects
  • Inspect equipment to locate or identify electrical problems
  • Install electrical components, equipment or systems
  • Evaluate the different types of wire insulation
  • Calculate what wire size to use for controls based on ampacity loads
  • Analyze and troubleshoot solid state components in operational amplifiers (op amps)
  • Analyze the basic adjustments that can be made to a velocity feedback control circuit
  • Compare hardwire problems with PLC ladder diagrams
  • Demonstrate troubleshooting skills using a PLC
• Troubleshooting/Repair/Installation - Mechanical Equipment
  • Identify different motor control operating principles
  • Properly demonstrate correct use of motors and controls
  • Connect motor controllers for specific applications
  • Examine work orders and converse with equipment operators to detect equipment problems and to ascertain whether mechanical or human errors contributed to the problems
  • Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance
  • Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools
  • Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it
  • Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed
  • Installing equipment, machines, wiring or programs to meet specifications
  • Inspecting equipment, structures or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects
  • Servicing, repairing, adjusting and testing machines, devises, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles
  • Repair worn, damaged or defective mechanical parts
  • Replace worn, damaged or defective mechanical parts
  • Test mechanical equipment to ensure proper functioning
  • Create different motor control operations and apply assignments into hardwire system
• Identify, Care and Use of Equipment & Tools of the Trade
  • Calibrate testing instruments and installed or repaired equipment to prescribed specifications
  • Identifying the tools needed for a job, which may include wrenches, air compressors, ammeters, articulating boom lift, calibrated resistance measuring equipment, calipers, circuit testers, conduit benders, drill bits, and more
  • Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job
  • Determine types of equipment, tools or materials needed for jobs
  • Properly use the Volt-Ohmmeter to take measurements of resistors
  • Identify and demonstrate the use of measurement instruments
  • Identify and be able to test diodes, transistors, and solicon controlled rectifiers
  • Identify the field and commutator on a DC motor/generator
• Programming of Equipment/Systems
  • Preventative maintenance of PLCs
  • Perform diagnostic testing on PLC equipment
  • Repair or install parts for PLC system and equipment
  • Suggest ways to prevent future equipment malfunction or improve equipment performance
  • Enter information into computer to copy program or to draw, modify or store schematics, applying knowledge of software package used
  • Develop or modify industrial electronic devices, circuits or equipment, according to available specifications
  • Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment and computer hardware and software, including applcations and programming
  • Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations and the environment will affect outcomes
  • Controlling operations of equipment or systems
  • Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance
  • Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes
  • Calibrate equipment to specifications
  • Enter codes or other information into computers
  • Develop equipment or component configurations
  • Draw a ladder diagram using RSLogics program in a computer
  • Analyze and verify the ladder diagram using a computer
  • Use the computer to communicate with the PLC
  • Edit programs in a PLC that includes timers, counters and master control relays
  • Connect and operate a general purpose AC drive
  • Interpret PLC diagram to facilitate troubleshooting of equipment input/output signals
• Demonstrated Use of Drawing, Schematics, etc.
  • Study blueprints, schematics, manuals or other specifications to determine installation procedures
  • Knowledge of design techniques, tools and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings and models
  • Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained or used
  • Interpret blueprints, specifications or diagrams to inform installation, development or operation activities
  • Design series/parallel circuits
  • Understand the interpretation of one line diagrams and electrical symbols pertaining to industrial controls
  • Apply the electrical symbols to schematic drawings
  • Infuse hydraulic symbols with electrical diagrams to complement the drawings
  • Read and interpret line diagrams, signals, decisions and action
  • Take readings and plot them in a chart
  • Translate assignments into a ladder diagram