Standards

Posted: 10/09/07

R State Standard

 £ Institutionally Developed

College: n/a

MCA 217 – CNC Practical Applications

Course Description

Provides additional instruction in part holding and fixture design. Students will also gain addition experience in print-to-part development of CNC programming. Topics include: safety, fixture design and manufacturing, and CNC part manufacturing.

 

Competency Areas

Hours

Safety

Class

1

Fixture Design & Manufacturing

D. Lab

0

Practical Applications

P. Lab/O.B.I.

9

 

Credit

4

 

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

MCA 211, MCA 213, MCA 215

 

Course Guide

 

Competency

After completing this section, the student will:

Hours

Class

D.Lab

P.Lab/

O.B.I.

SAFETY

1

0

0

 

List safety precautions that can be followed in fixture design to ensure proper part loading by machine operator.

 

 

 

 

List safety procedures for first run of new programs.

 

 

 

 

List operation safety procedures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIXTURE DESIGN & MANUFACTURING

9

0

0

Fixture Design

Design fixtures for part holding on CNC machines.

 

 

 

 

Identify and explain uses for dowel pins and shoulder bolts.

 

 

 

Fixture Making

Manufacture a part fixture for CNC machine use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

0

0

90

Print-To-Part

Evaluate part print for manufacturing methods.

 

 

 

 

Determine order of operations for part manufacturing.

 

 

 

 

Determine part holding and program zero location.

 

 

 

 

Determine cutting tools required and order of use.

 

 

 

 

Program parts per drawing specifications for manufacturing on CNC machine tools.

 

 

 

 

Setup and load program into CNC machine tool for part manufacturing.

 

 

 

 

Dry run, run, and edit part program for part manufacturing.

 

 

 

 

Suggested Resources

 

Books

 

Smid, P. CNC Programming Handbook. Industrial Press

Valentino, J.  Introduction to Computer Numerical Control (CNC). Prentice Hall.

Nanfara, F. The CNC Workbook. Addison Wesley.

Stenerson, J & Curran, K Computer Numerical Control – Operation & Programming. Pearson/Prentice Hall

 

Posted: 10/09/07