Spring Maker Stationary Plant & Machine Operators

The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.

Qualities, specifications, applications and reactions to different fabricating processes of various types of metal, such as steel, aluminium, brass, copper and others.

Types of metal springs such as leaf, coil, torsion, clock, tension and extension spring.

Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.

Continuously check up on the automated machine's set-up and execution or make regular control rounds. If necessary, record and interpret data on the operating conditions of installations and equipment in …

Monitor the processing of a workpiece in motion, such as a piece of metal or wood moved linearly over a static manufacturing machine.

Measure the size of a processed part when checking and marking it to check if it is up to standard by use of two and three dimensional precision measuring equipment …

Perform tests putting a system, machine, tool or other equipment through a series of actions under actual operating conditions in order to assess its reliability and suitability to realise its …

Evaluate which deficient processed workpieces do not meet the set-up standard and should be removed and sort the waste according to regulations.

Remove individual workpieces after processing, from the manufacturing machine or the machine tool. In case of a conveyor belt this involves quick, continuous movement.

Ensure the machine is fed the necessary and adequate materials and control the placement or automatic feed and retrieval of work pieces in the machines or machine tools on the …

Supply the machine with the necessary tools and items for a particular production purpose.

Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.

Coil, usually steel, metal rings by winding them continuously and regularly spaced atop of one another, creating metal springs.

Handle fabricated, drawn metal wire safely by calculating the risks and dangers of its unreliable nature due to spring force and resilience.

Tend a metalworking machine designed to produce metal springs, through either hot winding or cold winding processes, monitor and operate it according to regulations.

Various processing methods on iron and iron-containing alloys such as steel, stainless steel and pig iron.

The manufacturing of items used in the daily life, personal use or daily practice. These products include protective safety equipment, drawing equipment, stamps, umbrellas, cigarette lighters, baskets, candles, and many …

The manufacture of metal cable, plaited bands and other articles of that typr, uninsulated or insulated cable not capable of being used as a conductor of electricity, coated or cored …

The variety of technologies and techniques, such as forging, pressing, stamping, rolling and others, used for the forming processes of metal product manufacturing.

The most optimal rotation or cycle time and over-all quality of a tool or a machine's processes.

Method of quality control that uses statistics to monitor processes.

Metal processes linked to the different types of metal, such as casting processes, heat treatment processes, repair processes and other metal manufacturing processes.

The coiling process of hot winding, winding heated wire around a mandrel, then cooling it in oil and tempering it, in order to create metal springs.

Recommended Books

1 book

Handbook of Coil Winding

Jürgen Hagedorn, Florian…

2018

The coiling process of cold winding by winding wire at room temperature around a mandrel, in order to create metal springs.

Read and interpret such technical resources such as digital or paper drawings and adjustment data in order to properly set up a machine or working tool, or to assemble mechanical …

Dispose of dangerous materials such as chemical or radioactive substances according to environmental and to health and safety regulations.

Maintain records of the progress of the work including time, defects, malfunctions, etc.

Oversee the data presented by a gauge concerning the measurement of pressure, temperature, thickness of a material, and others.

Perform regular maintenance, possibly including corrections and alterations, on a machine or machine tool to ensure it remains in a proper productive state.

Test processed workpieces or products for basic faults.

Set up the desired product design in the CNC controller of the CNC machine for product manufacturing.

Offer help and advice to service technicians in case of machine malfunctions and other repair tasks.

Read and comprehend standard blueprints, machine, and process drawings.

Keep records of the machine's faults, interventions and irregularities for quality control.

Set up and give commands to a machine by dispatching the appropriate data and input into the (computer) controller corresponding with the desired processed product.

Use computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) programmes to control machinery and machine tools in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimisation as part of the manufacturing processes of workpieces.

Wear relevant and necessary protective gear, such as protective goggles or other eye protection, hard hats, safety gloves.

Turn on the ventilation systems, such as a vacuum pump or blower, of a manufacturing machine in order to remove noxious fumes, smoke, dust, or for other removal of debris …

Remove the accumulated scale, or metal 'flakes', on the surface of the metal workpiece caused by oxidation after removal from the furnace by spraying it with an oil-based liquid that …

Tend a drawing machine designed for forming cold or hot metal into wire, monitor and operate it, according to regulations.