Material Processing

The group of material processing training systems exposes students to many important aspects of modern computer numeric control (CNC) milling and lathe machines, vacuum forming and bending, pressure forming and blow molding of plastic materials. The training systems are specifically designed to afford a modular approach to meet the requirements of a wide variety of curricula.

The training systems cover the following topics:

• CNC history and development
• Cartesian axis system, absolute and relative coordinates
• Standard G-code
• Introduction to dedicated CNC control software
• Milling machine safety and setup
• Simulation and production of milled components
• Lathe safety and setup
• Simulation and production of lathed components
• Molecules polymers and plastics
• Producing plastic material and plastic components
• Plastic waste: recycling and burning
• Bending
• Vacuum forming
• Vacuum forming
• Blow molding