L.I.G.H.T Hands-on Courses

Grinding Parallel and Perpendicular Planes
3-day Course

This training module covers the fundamentals of making surfaces flat, square and parallel. The course continues into sharp corners, radii, centerlines, and tangent points. Rapidly changing technology has caused many shops to lose sight of these fundamentals. Recovering them can help even experienced craftsmen to greatly increase productivity. The key concepts of this course apply to most precision grinding operations. For effectiveness of presentation, the workshop is presented based on the surface grinding application.

Jig Grinding
32-hr. Course

This course is for the machinist who needs an entry-level course in the operation of a jig grinder. It covers the components, maintenance and safety of a Moore Jig Grinder. Operation basics of indicating, table positioning, workholding, and fixturing of the work piece. Spindle selection, air pressure adjustment, speeds and feeds as well as wheel selection. Hands on applications include jig-grinding basics of roughing and finishing holes while measuring with gage pins and bore gages. This course can be customized to your needs. A pre-requisite is the grinding application class or some previous experience in surface or jig grinding.

Design for Manufacturing
1-day Course

The topics covered in this seminar include:

• Type of material chosen for the stamped product
• Assembly processes that need to take place
• Possible ways to perform these assembly processes within the die.

Specific features of the final product that have an affect on the stamping process will be looked at, as well as any secondary operations that must occur on the product and possible ways to reduce these operations.  Also covered in this seminar will be an overview of the maintenance that needs to take place on the stamping die in order for it to perform up to expectations; and finally, an overview of the design process.

Machining for Engineers
40-hr. Course

This workshop is designed for the knowledge-based engineer who needs hands on applications of drilling, milling and turning operations. It covers general rules of thumb applied to drilling, milling and turning operations and includes resource material for tooling and cutting theory. There will be discussion of machine and work setups, machine capacities, speeds and feeds relating to specific materials types, tooling material and geometry, and discussion on general sequences of machining operations. Attendees will be shown demonstrations and given hands on experience. This workshop can be customized to your needs.