CNC Turning Operation
Credits: 3
Course Number: 32-420-335
Course Description
32-420-335 CNC TURNING OPERATION ...equipment overview, production planning, machine start-up, control panel operations, CNC control tools, operational codes and functions, operation modes and CNC code generation. (Prerequisite: 31-420-369 CNC/Machining Fundamentals 4)
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What will I learn?
- Examine lathe components and principles of operation
- Identify the coordinate system and directions of movement
- Control machine movements
- Determine machining operations and related tooling
- Compare EIA and conversational programming
- Define basic programming codes
- Discuss various methods of programming
- Employ manual machine controls
- Compare measurement systems and absolute/incremental programming concepts
- Review conversational programming methods on various controls
- Establish tool setup data and offsets
- Prepare the CNC machine for operation
- Investigate methods to improve finished part quality
- Troubleshoot tooling problems
- Troubleshoot programming problems
- Plan order of operations from print information
- Plan out required tooling and fixturing
- Set up fixturing for required machined part
- Practice use of canned programming cycles
- Verify and test the program prior to machining
- Produce a finished part from a CNC program
- Practice advanced program editing techniques
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