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Introduction to Manufacturing Technology

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Credit: 0.50
 Course Preface
Core Code: 38-01-00-00-070
Printable Version: Introduction to Manufacturing Technology (pdf)


Course Description
A broad exploratory course that introduces students to the manufacturing industry. Though hands‐on activities students will learn how manufactures use technology to change raw materials into finished products. The course will include: a brief history of manufacturing, social impacts, types of manufacturing production, design processes, properties of materials, manufacturing processes, safe use of tools and equipment, free enterprise and marketing principles, and career exploration.

Core Standards of the Course

Standard 1
STUDENTS WILL INVESTIGATE THE EVOLUTION AND IMPACTS OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY.

Objective 1.1
Students will state the differences between past and present methods of manufacturing.
  • Vocabulary: Cottage Industries (specialized craft industries), Industrial Revolution, Manufacturing Process, Interchangeable Parts, Manufacturing Technology, Assembly Line, Mass Production, Automation, Technology

Objective 1.2
Students will understand the positive and negative impacts that manufacturing has on society.
  • Vocabulary: Impacts of Manufacturing (Benefits/ Consequences)

Standard 2
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE THREE TYPES OF MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION. STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO APPLY THE TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS MODEL TO MANUFACTURING.

Objective 2.1
Students will be able to define continuous, intermittent, and custom types of manufacturing production.
  • Vocabulary: Three main manufacturing systems: Continuous Manufacturing, Intermittent Manufacturing, Custom Manufacturing
  • Other vocabulary: Flexible Manufacturing (a type of Continuous Mfg.), Mass Production

Objective 2.2
Students will understand the advantages and disadvantages of the three manufacturing production systems
  • Continuous Manufacturing Advantages:
    • Saves time
    • Workers become very skilled in doing one task
    • Special tooling and trained workers waste less material
    • Especially effective with large production runs
  • Continuous Manufacturing Disadvantages:
    • Workers are only trained in one task
    • Not effective for small production runs
  • Intermittent Manufacturing Advantages:
    • Products can be produced in sizable quantities, but with definite starting and stopping points
    • Good for batch processing of specific production orders
    • Production can quickly change to another production item at the end of a run.
  • Intermittent Manufacturing Disadvantages:
    • Management must do more planning to schedule the various production runs
    • Lots must be moved from station to station
    • Machines & tooling must be changed for each production run
  • Custom Manufacturing Advantages:
    • Excellent for small lots or one‐of‐a kind items.
    • A customer can order the exact product and features that they want
  • Custom Manufacturing Disadvantages:
    • Products cost more
    • Workers must be highly skilled and paid more
    • Slowest form of production

Objective 2.3
Students will be able to identify examples of inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback in the Technology Systems Model.
  • Vocabulary: Technology Systems Model, Input, Process, Output, Feedback

Objective 2.4
For a specific manufactured product, the student will be able to identify the inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback in the manufacturing process.

Standard 3
UNDERSTAND THE MANUFACTURING DESIGN PROCESS

Objective 3.1
Students will demonstrate competency in the Conventional Measuring System (inches/feet) and in the Metric Measuring System.
  • Vocabulary: Conventional Measuring System, Metric Measuring System

Objective 3.2
Students will know the steps of the Problem Solving/Design Process.
  • Design Process
    1. Identify, state and define the problem
    2. Research information
    3. Develop possible solutions (brainstorm, develop thumbnail sketches)
    4. Select the best solution/design
    5. Test the solution
    6. Evaluate and refine the solution
  • Vocabulary: CAD (Computer Aided Design), Innovation, Invention, Mock‐ups, Models, Prototype, Rendering, Rough Sketch, Thumbnail

Objective 3.3
Students will understand how to identify, state and define the problem.
  • State or write the problem clearly
  • Identify the requirements, criteria and constraints of the design problem

Objective 3.4
Students will know the steps of researching a design problem.
  • Find information that is already known
  • Describe conditions or factors that may effect the solution
  • Experiment, test, or research to gain additional information

Objective 3.5
Students will solve a designbased problem.

Standard 4
CHANGING RAW MATERIALS INTO FINISHED PRODUCTS

Objective 4.1
The students will understand various manufacturing materials, their sources, properties and uses.
  • Vocabulary: alloy, ceramic, Composite, Ferrous/Non‐Ferrous, Metal, Plastic, Wood

Objective 4.2
The student will define and demonstrate a Separating processes.
  • Vocabulary: Separating Process (sawing, milling, routing, die cutting, sanding, drilling, shearing, flame cutting, laser cutting, water‐jet cutting)

Objective 4.3
The student will define and demonstrate a Forming processes.
  • Vocabulary: Forming Processes (casting, molding, bending, die stamping, forging, rolling, extruding), Injection molding

Objective 4.4
The student will define and demonstrate an Assembling processes.
  • Vocabulary: Assembly processes (combining, joining, bonding, gluing, nailing, riveting, bolting, screwing, welding), Fasteners

Objective 4.5
The student will define and demonstrate a Finishing processes.
  • Vocabulary: Conditioning Processes (heat treating, cooling, drying, tempering, annealing, firing, chemical etching), Finishing Processes (painting, staining, waxing, anodizing, electroplating, plating, coating, glazing)

Objective 4.6
The student will apply all the necessary steps in a production sequence.
  • Vocabulary: Production sequence

Objective 4.7
Students will understand the application of automated systems in manufacturing.
  • Vocabulary: Automation, CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing), CNC (Computer Numeric Control), Robotics

Standard 5
DEVELOP BASIC SKILLS AND SAFE USE OF MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS

Objective 5.1
The student will learn and use safety rules and practices

Objective 5.2
The student will demonstrate the proper use of basic tools and machines
  • Vocabulary: Hand tools, Machinery, Portable power tools

Objective 5.3
The student will understand the use of jigs and fixtures
  • Vocabulary: Jigs and Fixtures

Standard 6
DEFINE FREE ENTERPRISE AND MARKETING AS IT RELATES TO MANUFACTURING

Objective 6.1
Students will explore concepts of entrepreneurship
  • Vocabulary: Entrepreneur, Free Enterprise

Objective 6.2
Students will participate in a continuous production system. (Mass production activity)
  • Vocabulary: Continuous Production

Objective 6.3
Students will understand the importance of labor efficiency and be able to identify ways to improve a mass production system.
  • Vocabulary: Labor Efficiency, Mass Production

Objective 6.4
Students will understand the process of obtaining capital and managing finances.
  • Vocabulary: Budget, Capital, Labor Costs, Material Costs, Production Costs, Profit, Stock

Objective 6.5
Students will learn marketing techniques, e.g. Product (market research, market survey), Price (cost analysis, price point), Promotion (advertising), Place (target market, sales and distribution)
  • Vocabulary: Advertising, Distribution, Marketing, Market Research, Market Survey, Packaging, Sales, Supply and Demand

Standard 7
STUDENTS WILL INVESTIGATE THE EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

Objective 7.1
The students will identify occupations related to the manufacturing industry.
  • Vocabulary: Career Pathway, Skilled/Unskilled, Occupations

Objective 7.2
The student will be able to identify different types of occupational training.
  • Vocabulary: On‐the‐job‐training, Apprentice, Skill Certification, Associate Degree, Bachelor Degree
   
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