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Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College

Advanced Manufacturing Technology

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Manufacturing Technology

About the Program

This program offers students training opportunities in various metal working occupations. Students in this program will learn the safe use of hand tools and the set-up and operation of conventional machine shop tools such as lathes, milling machines, drill presses, and surface grinders. The emphasis of the training focuses on the set-up, operation, and programming of Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) machine shop tools, and CAD/CAM programming software instruction. Additionally, the interpretation of engineering drawings, semi-precision and precision measurement, material characteristics and metallurgy are components of the curriculum.