REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

 1.  Define manufacturing.

 2.  Explain the importance of safety in manufacturing.

 3.  List the responsibilities of a manufacturing design technician.

 4.  Detail the duties of the manufacturing accounting technician.

 5.  State the function of a procurement specialist in a manufacturing setting.

 6.  Describe the responsibilities of a manufacturing assembly technician.

 7.  Identify the duties of a manufacturing maintenance technician.

 8.  Discuss the function of an operations technician in a manufacturing setting.

 9.  Define QA as it relates to manufacturing processes.

 REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 I.    Define

       A.  Raw material into finished products.

       B.  Production methods

           1.  Batch

           2.  Continuous

           3.  One-off aka prototype

 II.   Safety

       A.  Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

       B.  A culture of safety

       C.  Yields higher profits

       D.  Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

 III.  Design

       A.  Importance of design specifications

       B.  Design drawings

       C.  Bill Of Materials (BOM)

       D.  Process instructions

       E.  Engineering Change Orders (ECO)

 IV.   Accounting

       A.  Tracking project costs

           1.  Parts costs

           2.  Labor costs

           3.  Profit margins

       B.  Accounts Payable (AP) team

       C.  Accounts Receivable (AR) team

 V.    Procurement

       A.  Sourcing materials for assembly

       B.  Supply chain management

           1.  Fair prices

           2.  Sufficient quality

           3.  In reasonable time

           4.  Work with vendors

           5.  Fix defectives

           6.  Incorrect quantities

           7.  Delays

 VI.   Assembly

       A.  Assemblies vs. subassemblies

       B.  Engineering documentation

       C.  Established processes

       D.  Engineering documentation reviews

       E.  5S’s of assembly workstations

 VII.   Maintenance

       A.  Preventive Maintenance (PM)

       B.  Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)

       C.  Sight

       D.  Sound

       E.  Touch

       F.  Smell

 VIII. Operations

       A.  Overseeing production

       B.  Removing hurdles

       C.  Project on time

       D.  Project on budget

       E.  Lean manufacturing

 IX.   QA

       A.  Six sigma

       B.  Fishbone diagrams

       C.  Process improvement tools