Advanced Manufacturing - Machining
Central Community College offers several short-term training courses related to subtractive manufacturing. These courses will prepare you to enter many high-paying jobs in the machining industry, or help you advance in your current career. These classes are hands-on in our Advanced Manufacturing Machining lab and are based on real-world applications taught by industry experts.
You’ll find the classes we offer listed below, and you can expand the tabs to see course descriptions. You can find upcoming courses with our Community & Industry Class Search. Please remember that we also can customize classes to meet your specific needs.
This three-day workshop covers the reading and interpretation of blueprints for the purpose of machining. This includes becoming familiar with concepts such as multi-view drawings, angles of projection, section views, thread callouts, and much more.
- Alphabet of blueprint lines
- Title blocks
- Multiview drawings
- Part dimensioning and tolerancing
- Auxiliary and section views
- Analyzation of machined features
- Thread interpretation
- Print reading for machining purposes
This two-day workshop will teach the proper use of common precision measuring tools including, but not limited to, calipers and micrometers. Through precision measuring theory and hands-on practice, attendees will learn the proper application of different measuring tools as well as basic shop math and terminology.
- Basic shop math
- Shop terminology regarding measuring
- Precision measuring theory
- Proper use of various measuring devices such as tape measures, steel rules, angle protractors, dial and digital calipers and micrometers, depth micrometers, dial indicators, depth gauges, and many more.
- Practical use exercises for each practiced measuring device
This five-day workshop covers the basic usage and operation of a vertical manual mill. Attendees will learn the different functions of the mill controls, how to properly align the machine, tool selection, speeds and feeds, how to safely conduct themselves around the equipment, and then be able to apply all these concepts with hands-on machining exercises.
- Anatomy of a manual mill
- Analyzation of mill tooling and tool holding
- Analyzation of mill work holding methods
- Manual mill and work holding alignment
- Speeds and feeds
- Hands-on machining
Prerequisite: Blueprint Reading and Precision Measuring workshop completion OR an equivalent skillset derived from occupational experience.
This five-day workshop covers the basic usage and operation of a horizontal manual lathe. Attendees will learn the different functions of the lathe controls, proper lathe setup, tool selection, speeds and feeds, how to safely conduct themselves around the equipment, and then be able to apply these concepts with hands-on machining exercises.
- Anatomy of a manual lathe
- Analyzation of lathe tooling and tool holding
- Analyzation of lathe work holding methods
- Manual lathe alignment procedures
- Speeds and feeds
- Hands-on machining
Prerequisites: Blueprint Reading and Precision Measuring workshop completion OR an equivalent skillset derived from occupational experience.
This nine-day workshop discusses several types of CNC programming, proper machine setup and operation, how to safely conduct oneself around the equipment, as well as providing attendees with the opportunity to gain confidence with CNC equipment through many different hands-on machining exercises.
- CNC terminology and nomenclature
- Anatomy of CNC equipment
- CNC setup procedures
- Tool touch-off + offsets
- G+M code programing
- Conversational programing
- Hands on machining
Prerequisites: Blueprint Reading, Precision Measuring, Manual Mill, and Manual Lathe workshop completion OR an equivalent skillset derived from occupational experience.