VOA 587 - Certified Production Technician - Maintenance Awareness

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

This course is designed to enable the student to gain a basic understanding of tools and equipment used in manufacturing and knowledge of how to improve productivity through predictive and preventive maintenance. Topics to be covered include welding, basic electrical measurement, electrical power, pneumatic power systems, hydraulic power systems, lubrication concepts, bearings and couplings, belt drives, chain drives, machine control concepts, and machine automation.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

1. perform preventive maintenance and routine repair,
2. monitor indicators to ensure correct operations,
3. perform all housekeeping to maintain production schedule, and
4. recognize potential maintenance issues with basic production systems.