Technology, Fabricating and Woodworking. Many of the courses offer certifi cate programs, as well as credit toward an Associate degree.
Bachelor of Science Cerritos College partners with Northwood University to
offer students who want to continue their education and receive a B.S. in Applied Management with a technical em- phasis in Machine Tool Technology. Northwood offers cost- effective, accelerated degree completion, and the eligibility criteria is in line with the Associate degree in Machine Tool Technology offered by Cerritos College.
intact—from design to manufacturing to inspection and qual- ity reporting. Everything that defi nes the part exists in a single digital archive, including how to manufacture and inspect the part. Of course, a comprehensive deployment of MBD in manufacturing can go far beyond this to complete Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), but it is important for students to understand the concept.
Reverse Engineering Using coordinate metrology, reverse engineering is taught for use in determining best fi t, producing legacy parts with missing CAD data, or manufacturing complex surface profi les—in each case adding value to the all- important digital thread. These are just a few examples of providing students with relevant and modern concepts that will increase their value as technicians in the workplace.
Quality Inspection
Second-year student Steve Dorado is studying to earn his Associates degree and become a Certifi ed CNC Programmer. In addition to his studies he holds a job in the industry as a machine operator.
“The whole idea behind the programs at Cerritos College is to enlighten students, as early as possible, about manu- facturing technology as a vocation and viable career path,” Real said. “Once the passion has been ignited, we want to provide students the most comprehensive and practical education we can—learning by doing.”
Coordinate Metrology and the Digital Thread Today’s design, manufacturing and quality engineers
are becoming increasingly accountable to maintain a digital workfl ow, end-to-end. To this end, modern manufacturing is rapidly adopting model-based defi nition (MBD). When employing an MBD strategy, the CAD model becomes more than the nominal to which all parts are measured and inspected against. MBD keeps the all-important digital thread
Quality inspection and reporting used to be a disparate process isolated in a quality lab. Today, it is much more integrated with the production fl oor through in-process inspection. Students are taught the importance of cross- platform compatibility, starting with deploy- ment of an enterprise inspection software and extends to all coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) and accessories. Today’s inspection software solutions are capable of serving the entire manufacturing enterprise. In order to
maintain the digital thread, software must be rooted in CAD and have the ability to import from, manipulate, annotate, model, inspect against, and export to virtually any CAD fi le format. At the end of the day, it is the job of inspection software to align and compare the nominal CAD model with measured points collected from the fi nished part, whether that includes a relatively small number of manually triggered contact points, or noncontact scanned point cloud data containing millions of points.
Ray Elledge Director of Education Verisurf Software
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