Earning Criteria

• Earn NIMS Grinding Skills I certification issued by the National Institute of Metalworking Skills to signify passing the NIMS Grinding Skills I credentialing test
• Demonstrate safe and proper use of cutting tool selection, applications, and operation including wheel application, features/attributes, side/surface grinding, part loading (magnetic chuck) wheel dressing, and nomenclature. Demonstrate effective process planning, setup and operation to include: machine configuration, selection, operation sequencing, and work-holding concepts/devises, balancing/mounting grinding wheels, mounting/dressing magnetic chucks.
• Apply correct operations such as deburring and part loading (vise/fixture). Apply inspection techniques to include: verification of angularity, with/out size, perpendicularity, position profile of a surface and surface finish. Identify shapes and symbols associated w/feature control frames.