Career Details :: Grinding, Honing, Lapping, and Deburring Machine Set-Up Operators
Description
Set up and operate grinding, honing, lapping, or deburring machines to remove excess materials or burrs from internal and external surfaces.
Experience
Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
Education
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.
Tasks
- Measures workpieces and lays out work, using precision measuring devices.
- Maintains stock of machine parts and machining tools.
- Moves machine controls to index workpiece and adjust machine for pre-selected operational settings.
- Lifts and positions workpiece manually or with hoist, and secures in hopper, on machine table, faceplate, or chuck, using clamps.
- Observes and adjusts machine operation.
- Inspects or measures workpiece, using measuring instruments, such as gauges or micrometers, for conformance to specifications.
- Activates machine start-up switches to grind, lap, hone, debar, shear, or cut workpiece, according to specifications.
- Grinds, sharpens, or hones tools, dies, and products to prescribed dimensions, using power tools, hand tools, and precision measuring instruments.
- Brushes or sprays lubricating compound on workpiece or turns valve handle and directs flow of coolant against tool and workpiece.
- Mounts and positions tools in machine chuck, spindle, or other tool-holding device to specifications, using hand tools.
- Studies blueprints, work order, or machining instructions to determine tooling and product dimensions, and to plan operational sequence.
- Computes machine indexing and settings for specified dimension and base reference points.
- Threads and hand-feeds materials through machine cutters or abraders.
- Repairs or replaces machine parts, using hand tools, or notifies engineering personnel when corrective action is required.
- Selects machine tooling to be used in machine operation, utilizing knowledge of machine and production requirements.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Performing General Physical Activities
Important Skills
- Operation and Control
- Product Inspection
- Equipment Selection
- Operation Monitoring
- Equipment Maintenance
Frequent Work Context
- Indoors
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Consequence of Error
- Degree of Automation
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
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