Die Designer
Competency-based
ONET: 17-3027.00
1
Years
53
Skills
1616h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- CAD I
- Writing and Inquiry
- Humanities/Fine Arts Elective
- Public Speaking
- Intro to GD&T
- Intro to Solid Modeling
- Algebra/Trigonometry II
- Machine Processes I
- Intro to Electricity
- Machine Processes II
- Physics-Mechanics
- Industrial Specifications OR Work-Based Learning I/II
- Design Process I
- Statics
- CNC Milling
- Manufacturing Processes I
- Interpersonal Psychology OR General Psychology
- Design Process II
- Strength of Materials
- Hydraulics/Pneumatics I
- Engineering Mechanisms
- Capstone Design Project
- Manufacturing Proc I Lab
- Mfg Materials I
- Algebra/Trigonometry
- Appl Software for Tech
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
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