VOA 575 - Automated Facilities Technician - Part 7

8 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to learn about microcomputer fundamentals, PC hardware and troubleshooting, microcontroller functions, addressing modes, internal operations, PIA interfacing, Computer number systems, codes, and arithmetic functions, procedures for organizing and presenting technical data through informal and formal documents and presentations, writing memoranda, letter reports, and formal technical reports. Topics include convert between the binary and decimal number systems and recognize the most commonly used binary codes; the operation of digital logic gates; identify the more commonly used integrated circuit families used in digital equipment and discuss their operation and characteristics; recognize and identify characteristics of technical communications; how to identify the needs of a given audience; collect and organize information; create technical documents in accordance with conventional formats; and write descriptive and operational instructions for nontechnical users of technical information and properly integrate graphs, tables, and references into technical reports.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to:
1. define the basic principles of cost-effectiveness throughout the supply chain, 2. identify the four main international security initiative for logistics, 3. identify the main federal safety organizations, 4. describe how to document a quality control problem, 5. identify computer and software systems commonly used in logistics, 6. describe common receiving and transportation documentation, 7. explain safe load procedures including load distribution, 8. describe the most common inventory control systems, 9. explain six key work habits with examples from industry, 10. describe the correlation between good work habits and personal/team/organizational success, and 11. define an ethical dilemma and illustrate with examples from industry.