Workplace Skills Enhancement

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills related to safety in a manufacturing environment. Topics covered include: work in a safe and productive manufacturing workplace, perform safety and environmental inspections, perform emergency drills and participate in emergency teams, identify unsafe conditions and take corrective action, provide safety orientation for all employees, train personnel to use equipment safely, suggest process and procedures that support 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: participate in periodic internal quality audit activities, check calibration of gages and other data collection equipment, suggest continuous improvements, inspect materials and product/process at all stages to ensure they meet specifications, document the results of quality problems, communicate quality problems, take corrective actions to restore or maintain quality, record process outcomes and trends, identify fundamentals of blueprint reading, and use common 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 quality practices and measurement in a manufacturing environment. Topics covered include: participate in periodic internal quality audit activities, check calibration of gages and other data collection equipment, suggest continuous improvements, inspect materials and product/process at all stages to ensure they meet specifications, document the results of quality problems, communicate quality problems, take corrective actions to restore or maintain quality, record process outcomes and trends, identify fundamentals of blueprint reading, and use common 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: prepare preventative maintenance and routine repair, monitor indicators to ensure correct operations, perform all housekeeping to maintain production schedule, recognize 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.