Coastal Alabama Community College

On-the-job Training

• Demonstrates basics of measurement, materials, and safety of products and parts
  • Identifies and demonstrates use of machine safety and personal protective equipment
  • Demonstrates compliance with lock-out/tag-out procedures and OSHA requirements and guidelines
  • Handles and stores hazardous materials as assigned while adhering to safe practices in accordance with OSHA and EPA requirements and guidelines
  • Develops an inspection plan and inspects simple parts using precision tools and techniques while preparing reports on the compliance of the parts
  • Performs the inspection of parts
  • Follows a sampling plan to allow for process control
  • Analyzes the performance of a single-part production process
  • As a member of a process team, analyzes the performance of a production process
• Conducts job planning, layout, and benchwork
  • Lays out the location of hole centers and surfaces with accuracy
  • Using aluminum or mild steel, hand drills and hand tap holes
  • Sets up and performs sawing to a layout
  • Develops a process plan for a part requiring milling, drilling, turning, or grinding.
• Operates manufacturing equipment
  • Sets up and operates machine tools to perform routine drilling operates
  • Sets up and performs squaring up the six surfaces of a block to within +/- .2 inch and .002 inch over 4.5 inches squareness
• Generates CNC programming and operates a milling machine
  • Using the principles of Cartesian coordinates, develops a program for the manufacture of a simple part
  • Creates a qualified CNC program, sets up and operates the mill, changes tool values as necessary, and replaces and qualifies tooling as necessary
  • Sets up and operates a CNC mill or CNC milling center
  • Writes sophisticated RS-274-D programs
  • Creates programs using a manufacturing modelling software package
• Demonstrates CNC turning operations and operates a CNC lathe
  • Sets up and carries out, between centers and with chucks, turning operations
  • Uses the principles of Cartesian coordinates to develop a program for the manufacture of a simple part
  • Operates a CNC lathe or turning centre
  • Writes sophisticated programs
  • Creates programs using a manufacturing modelling software package
• Conducts general housekeeping and maintenance
  • Keeps the duty station, tools, workbenches, and manual equipment clean and safe for work
  • Inspects and assesses the general condition of an assigned machine tool
  • Inspects and assesses the condition of tooling
• Engages in career management and employee relations
  • Develops and explains a short-term career plan and resume
  • Completes job application form and demonstrates interviewing skills
  • Demonstrates appropriate interpersonal skills in job performance evaluations, group communication and decision-making, and conflict resolution
  • Identifies and explains the major departments or functions in a metalworking company and how they affect production units
  • Understand and explains employment rights and responsibilities in metalworking companies