Today I went a shadowed someone at skills Inc. He showed me more of the basics of CNC machining. Like how to load a fixture for the part we were machining, how to see how to load our part with the operations page, how to load our part onto the fixture, and some things to do while the part is running. While waiting for the part to be machined you can get your next part ready to be machined. Also you can clean your work area by putting your tools where they're supposed to go or you can mop your area. After all your parts have run or your wating for a first part check you can clean out chips in your machine with the coolant hose or air hose.
Wednesday I went down to inspection and helped/was trained with a mentor. I spent the first half of the day relearning the basics of inspecting with the mentor. Like using calipers, micrometer, and pin gauges. After I got it all down we inspected a few parts together, then he would inspect a part then watch me do it by myself. While he was letting me check a part by my self I would measure out the part then have him come over to see if it was accurate, every time he check if I did it right it was correct. This went on until he was comfortable enough that he let me inspect an order by myself while watching me. Before I did one by my self the mentor showed me how to lay it on a PCM to make sure the part was accurate to the PCM. I also did really good on lining it up with the PCM when I did it by myself.
Thursday I was helping with the 3-D printer, We started out the day setting up where the g-codes (the printer would only take g-codes) and where you could see the part would be in different folders. Unfortunately when we tried to print a AMLA keychain and it messed up and misaligned the x and y axis, so the rest of the day we tried to fix the problem at the end of the day we factory reset the printer and that seemed to fix the problem.
Friday I worked more on the 3-D printer and tried to re-build and reprint the AMLA keychain. Rebuilding it in fusion was easy and went by quickly, and so did the slicing, but when we tried to print the keychain the printer slammed into the left side of itself and then the front. We decided to do another factory reset and leave it for next week.
Today I went on the floor with Brittany as my mentor, she just had me run a Z-bar (a bar that is in a z shape/stringers) with keyholders (a different type of vise). To start out with I had to check all of the tools to make sure that they were the correct tools. Then I started the machine and watched the first tool start to cut. Before the tool cuts I slow down the rapid movement down to 5% when the tool its like 5-7 inches away from the part because when the tool is about to cut it hovers for a second and then cuts. Now since it is slowed down I can look for the hovering and see if it is close enough to start cutting, or a can stop it from running into the part if the hovering doesn't happen. If the tool doesn't have any problems the first time I don't have to check it again because I know that it is good. I continue to check new tools and pressing go on every operation until the part is finished.