Tool and Die Maker
Competency-based
ONET: 51-4111.00
4
Years
27
Skills
1728h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- CNC Milling
- Writing and Inquiry
- Machining Applications I
- Machining Applications II
- Machining Calculations
- Basic CAD I
- Intro to CAD/CAM
- Applied Physics
- Advanced CNC Milling
- Humanities/Fine Arts Elective
- Industrial Specifications
- Public Speaking
- General Psychology
- Physical Metallurgy
- CNC Turning
- Advanced CNC Turning
- Adv Multi-Axis Machin
- CNC Machining Processes
- Adv Multi-Axis Machin Lab
- Comp-Aided Manufacturing I
- Applications in CNC Machining
- Advanced CNC Processes
- Comp-Aided Manufacturing II
- Blueprint Reading
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
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