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(man)
My job at Hirschvogel is
I'm responsible for making dies
and various tools
in our die shop.
A die is a negative mold.
Parts are formed
inside of these tools.
One example would be
a pinion shaft in a car,
which is a component
of the transmission
or of a rear end
that is a driven gear.
That part is forced into a die.
Various punches make this tool
and it is ejected out.
To get into the machining trade,
to be hired by a company,
usually they're looking
for technical school training
or college,
associate's degrees.
You can enter
with a high school diploma,
but it's much more difficult
without some sort
of past experience.
The training at Hirschvogel
consists of being placed
with an experienced machinist.
You learn his or her
day-to-day job duties,
and they teach you
the various skills
that you'll need to know
to perform that job.
My goals for myself,
I wish to further
my technical knowledge more,
even within the die shop,
and also further my knowledge
about the company overall,
as far as their processes
in the United States
and in other Hirschvogel
plants around the world.
We send many people from all
departments of the company
to Germany for training,
not only in their job,
but also to experience
the culture
and further their skills
more so there.
Technology's involved in
most all machining processes.
Most machines we use in our
die shop are CNC machines,
computer numerical
controlled machines.
The CNC machine that I run
is a CNC lathe.
We program this machine
to turn dies.
That involves
taking a blueprint,
reading and understanding
what is on that print
and then programming the machine
to perform those steps
in the order that I choose.
My typical job flow
in the die shop
consists of receiving parts back
from the heat treat process,
where they're already hardened.
Then I will evaluate the part,
look at the blueprints
and determine what needs
to be done to that part.
I'll then program
the CNC machine
to produce the part correctly,
select my tooling,
process the part
through hard turning,
and on to operations
after that.
Funding to purchase and make
this educational production
accessible was provided by the
U.S. Department of Education:
PH: 1-800-USA-LEARN (V)
or WEB: www.ed.gov.
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