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Die Setter Training Program
Die Setter Training |
| Class: | Die Setter |
| Delivery: | In Person Penn State DuBois and St. Marys High School |
| Dates & Times: | To be announced. |
| Cost: | $5,000 |
Penn State DuBois, in partnership with several of the region’s leading powder metal companies, has developed a 74.5-hour course for existing employees who have shown loyalty and aptitude to the skills needed to become valued die setters for their organization.
A unique combination of high-level classroom and hands-on training, the classes all take place in St. Marys and DuBois over a six-month period.
Utilizing some of the region’s best engineering instructors and veteran die setters, students gain both the knowledge and the skills to tackle all types of press set-ups from straight-wall, flange and spherical to multi-action set-ups like dual top and dual bottom processes. Hands-on classes are taught using Gasbarre presses.
Courses include:
- Introduction to Die Setting
- Industrial Math I
- Blueprint Reading I
- Metrology I
- Straight Wall Set-up (10 Hours)
- Industrial Math II
- Blueprint Reading II
- Metrology II
- Industrial Math III
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance
- Flange Set-up (6 hours)
- Spherical Set-up (3 hours)
- Statistical Process Control
- Fracture and Failure Analysis
- Dual Top Set-up (7 hours)
- Dual Bottom Set-up (7 hours)
- Press Functions and Troubleshooting (3.5 hours)