I am going to set up for next year an RNCP Title of Senior Technician in Industrial Design of Mechanical Systems
See my website for more details: http://ts.cism.free.fr/index.html
In short, it allows the trainees to learn how to draw tools and special machines (which is done in the design of methods).
I have planned "school" subjects that I put together from scratch: tools for drilling, milling; A plastic mold tool; press tools (sheet metal cutting); a small rivet crimping machine (with one cylinder for clamping and another for crimping to size).
Do you have any ideas for work to do that would be sufficiently "generalist" to be reusable in the profession?
I'm also looking for old specifications that would give a "real" side to the work I give them (I remove customer references and these are works that won't leave my class class). Only the specifications interest me.
For me, the must is people who have done an apprenticeship. They have a good vision of the practice. A BAC PRO TCI for the workshop experience to also know the different means of production and then after a BTS CRCI for everything that is apprenticeship in BE. It's a great understood and they are almost operational when they leave the BTS with a vision of the 2 worlds.
For me, all interns or apprentices in BE should do an internship of one or two months in a workshop so that they learn to work according to a plan and that they see the mistakes not to make and the improvements that can be made to people to make their lives easier... Style, position marking or mortise and tenon etc...
Good idea for your students. It's not the "sexiest" when you're studying, but it actually serves well afterwards.
I saw that you were in cutting press tools. Maybe you should also include punching and stamping?
If it is in method optics, perhaps also include robot grippers with the movements to be expected? At the time I was doing it, we had to include a ventolline increment system in the main body. This includes gripping the body, orienting it in the right direction, setting up gears, springs, etc. Validate that the elements are in place, plan the cam paths, etc etc
In fact, if you can't find an existing specification, it's quite simple. You take any object, have it dissected by your students, have them make the specifications for the assembly... and divide up a design position each ;)
Otherwise, I had also thought of the hoppers to sort, store and distribute caps, washers, etc etc. It's quite peculiar and it serves quite a lot in a special machine.
I am a design office in plastics processing and it often happens that my other colleagues in a mechanical design office need to make positioning assemblies for plastic pcs for workstations (control of electronic boards assembled in plastic boxes, installation for screen printing etc...).
They generally struggle to take back drafts, leaves, passages of joint plans, etc... So I'm the one who redoes all the installation.
It is easy to find 3d molds of parts to be welded in ultrasound, to be deceived in a special machine, to be integrated into assemblies from machining.
If necessary I can send you some 3d parts + simple plastic molds (or more complicated ;-) ) to create subjects. Even see functional raw pcs subjects on which to lay the rules of plastic design (constant walls, ribbed reinforcements, drafts,...).
@Alain, it would have been with pleasure... Unfortunately, I haven't been in this company for 4 years. So it's a bit too far! :(And today, I'm more on thin sheet metal (and so not sure if it helps you?)
@Aurélien Fives, I have already planned small assemblies with mechanically welded frames and then another one in Norcan, a rivet setissing assembly with clamping cylinder and an effort one; probably the management of an electric conveyor, machining fixtures (milling and drilling). I remain open to other proposals.