MANUFACTURING FUNDAMENTALS (PRINTS & DRAWINGS)
General Dimensioning and Tolerances
For entry level employees, apprentices, inspectors, engineers, office personnel, sales engineers, machinists, mold makers, die makers
This course provides an understanding of general dimensions and tolerances, terms and symbols used in dimensioning and tolerancing, and the fundamental rules of the ASME 14.5 Standard. Other information includes locating tolerances, tolerancing methods, tolerance accumulation and dimensioning methods addressing tolerance accumulation
Time Commitment: 3 hours / Cost: $75 REGISTER NOW
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
For engineers, machinists, quality personnel, production personnel, sales engineers, tool and die makers, apprentices, maintenance personnel
Each participant will learn about basic dimensioning and tolerances including purpose, as well as common terms used in GD&T presentation. Instruction includes identifying the true geometric counterpart, free-state condition, feature control frame interpretation and types of feature control frames. Students will explore material modifiers, geometric tolerance zones, data and data reference frames, and alternate data references. Content includes instruction in form, profile, location, and run-out tolerancing application and interpretation.
Time Commitment: 11 hours / Cost: $150 REGISTER NOW
AWS Welding Symbols on Blueprints
For engineers, machinists, quality personnel, production personnel, sales engineers, tool and die makers, apprentices, maintenance personnel
Students enrolled in this course will learn how to define the eight elements of a welding symbol, describe the purpose of a tail, discover how to read and interpret dimensions related to the symbol, and the basic types of weld symbols. Other instruction includes defining the purpose of weld symbols, supplementary symbols, and interpreting additional information on a welding print.
Time Commitment: 1 hour / Cost: $75 REGISTER NOW
Blueprint Reading
For entry level personnel, apprentices, inspectors, production personnel
This course covers line convention and the use of each type of line, types of drawings, sizes and sections of prints, dimensions and notes, scale, size and location dimensions, tolerancing and basic orthographic theory. Other content areas included in instruction are basic data theory, introduction into GD&T, print symbols and types of dimensioning.
Time Commitment: 5 hours / Cost: $75 REGISTER NOW
Mathematics 1
For production personnel, apprentices, inspectors, quality engineers, tool and die makers, CNC machinists, mold makers, front line supervisors
This course informs the students about the ground rules of math, terms, symbols, application of the number line, whole numbers and integers. Other content includes the four basic math functions, basic mathematical properties, definition of a variable, solving inequalities, fractions and decimals, place value, conversion, percentage, average and ratio. The basics of geometry are also covered in this course.
Time Commitment: 6 hours / Cost: $120 REGISTER NOW
Trigonometry 1
For entry level employees, apprentices, inspectors, toolmakers, machinists, CNC operators
This course will integrate CNC theory into the mathematics of trigonometry. Students will learn about angles, triangles, Pythagorean theorem, basic trigonometry, circles and semi-circles. Other content includes the components of angles, angle conversion, basic trigonometric functions, inverse functions, quadrants, finding unknowns using the Pythagorean theorem and basic manufacturing applications.
Time Commitment: 6 hours / Cost: $120 REGISTER NOW
Principles of Advanced Manufacturing
For entry level employees, apprentices, inspectors, toolmakers, machinists, CNC operators, engineers, quality engineers, production personnel, managers, supervisors
Individuals enrolled in this course will learn about advanced manufacturing processes and materials, three characteristics of all advanced manufacturing plants, technology of advanced manufacturing such as CNC, PLC, CAD, CAM and CIM, automation, robots the software relationships applied in manufacturing. Other content includes plant layout, layout formats, manufacturing metrics and key departments of a typical advanced manufacturing plant.
Time Commitment: 5 hours / Cost: $75 REGISTER NOW