Workplace Skills Enhancement

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills related to safety in a manufacturing environment. Topics covered include working in a safe and productive manufacturing workplace, performing safety and environmental inspections, performing emergency drills and participating in emergency teams, identifying unsafe conditions and taking corrective action, providing safety orientation for all employees, training personnel to use equipment safely, suggest process and procedures that support the safety of work environment, fulfill safety and health requirements for maintenance, installation and repair, monitor safe equipment and operator performance, and utilize effective, safety-enhancing workplace practices. Students completing courses WKO 141, 142, 143, and 144 will receive the Certified Production Technician credential.

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills related to quality practices and measurement in a manufacturing environment. Topics covered include participating in periodic internal quality audit activities, checking calibration of gages and other data collection equipment, suggesting continuous improvements, inspecting materials and product/processes at all stages to ensure they meet specifications, documenting the results of quality problems, communicating quality problems, take corrective actions to restore or maintain quality, record process outcomes and trends, identify fundamentals of blueprint reading, and use standard measurement systems and precision measurement tools. Students completing this course will receive an MSSC certificate in quality practices and measurement. Students completing courses WKO 141, 142, 143, and 144 will receive the Certified Production Technician credential.

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills related to maintenance awareness in a manufacturing environment. Topics covered include preparing preventative maintenance and routine repair, monitoring indicators to ensure correct operations, performing all housekeeping to maintain the production schedule, recognizing potential maintenance issues with basic production systems, including knowledge of when to inform maintenance personnel about problems with electrical systems, pneumatic systems, hydraulic systems, machine automation systems, lubrication systems, bearings, and couplings. Students completing this course will receive an MSSC certificate in maintenance awareness. Students completing courses WKO 141, 142, 143, and 144 will receive the Certified Production Technician credential.