Manufacturing Blueprints
Upon completion of these materials, students will learn what manufacturing blueprints are and how they benefit the customer and the manufacturer.
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Lesson materials include:
- Lesson Plan
- Instructional Video
- Student Test
Helping your students discover, understand, and evaluate various career paths and occupations within the Manufacturing cluster that align with their personal interests, skills, and values.
Occupation Research Tools 140
MyCareerTech offers full occupation reports on 140 Occupations across the 4 Manufacturing Career Pathways.
Manufacturing Production Process Development Pathway 18
Process Development is responsible for product design and design of the manufacturing process. They work with customers to ensure the manufacturing process produces a product that meets or exceeds customer expectations. They also monitor the manufacturing process and the materials used to manufacture the product.
Production Pathway 115
People with careers in production work on the shop floor making parts or assembling them. They work with machines, making or assembling electronic parts, constructing or assembling modular housing, performing welding jobs, or printing various materials.
Maintenance, Installation & Repair Pathway 22
People with careers in this pathway perform preventive maintenance procedures on machines, tools and equipment. These are performed routinely and on a regular basis. They also troubleshoot and repair electrical, electronic and mechanical systems. This will include mechanical repair as well as using computer-based inventory control systems, retrieving information histories on each machines from computer records, and recording repair activities on the system to keep accurate records of repairs performed on each machine.
Quality Assurance Pathway 3
Quality Assurance employees assure that standards and procedures are adhered to and that delivered products or services meet performance requirements. They may have responsibility for monitoring and maintaining the quality of parts and manufacturing processes. This could include identifying the raw product to ensure it meets specifications, as well as measuring or otherwise testing products and parts to ensure they meet required customer specifications.
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Advance CTE sponsors the 16 National Career Clusters Framework and career cluster definitions.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Industries at a Glance, at bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag_index_alpha.htm (visited March 20, 2024).