• When on plant tours, students will be required to observe and record significant items on the sheets given below.
Date and Time: Tues., Feb., 2, 2:45-4:15 p.m.
Pre-Tour: Read the Padnos Scrap Yard Case Study again.
Highlights: A large facility for reclaiming metals that has received the Ford Q-1 award for the quality of their shredder scrap. On-site the facilities include a briqueting operation for fine turnings, car shredding, sizing operations for various large scrap, aluminum melting, pressing operations for high grade scraps and an extensive machine shop for fabricating much of their own equipment. Environmental concerns are addressed at all points in the facility.
Some Items to Look For (only a start):
1. What is Q-1 and what does it mean?
3. What are the sources of the metal?
7. The shredding process and the output.
8. Preprocessing of automobiles.
9. Input materials that cause problems.
10. Separation operations (manual/automatic).
14. Equipment designed in-house
Date and Time: Tues., Feb., 9, 2:30-3:30pm
Highlights: Heat treating processes including annealing, tempering/quenching (oil, water and salt), case hardening and shot blasting.
Date and Time: Tues., Feb., 23, 2:30pm
Highlights: Precision machining processes including grinding and turning for the autoparts and computer industries.
Date and Time: Tues., Mar., 16, bus leaves at 8am
Highlights: Thousands of exhibitors showing automation, robotics, CAD, processes, ........
Submit: 5 pieces of literature from different vendors that apply to something you did in your coop. Write a brief paragraph for the significance of each.
Date and Time: Tues., Mar., 2, 1 p.m. -- NOTE EARLY TIME
Highlights: A Variety of Casting Processes
Date and Time: Tues., Feb., 18, 3pm
Date and Time: Tues., Apr., 1, 2:30 p.m.
Highlights: A world leader in office furniture manufacturing with a wide range of sheet metal and finishing processes. Many sheet metal processes, painting, assembly, packaging, etc.
Date and Time: Tues., Apr., 8, 3pm
Highlights: A manufacturer of powder metallurgy parts.
Date and Time: Tues., Apr., 15, 3 p.m.
Highlights: An industrial scale injection molder. They have numerous machines organized in bays. These allow flexibility and makes it a very open environment. Other processes include embossing and ultrasonic welding.
• Other Tours are yet to be determined, but may include,
Shape: Rollforming: Dave Riemersma
Blackmer Pump: Casting and machining: Doug Stolz
Brill Cast: Die Casting: Ron Holland
Cascade Engineering: plastics: engineering
Nicholas Plastics: extrusion, compression molding: Mike Andres