Standards - Career & Technical Education

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces..

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Monitor indicators and adjust equipment to ensure correct operations.

Accurately read a pressure gauge.

Calculate the shaft speed and torque of a belt drive system.

Perform belt tension for an application.

Use a belt tension tester to measure belt tension.

Calculate shaft speed and torque of a chain drive system.

Determine allowable chain sag for a given application.

Create a schedule of facility cleaning, organizing, and repairs to maintain a production schedule.

Plan for and conduct regular inspections of machinery and equipment.

Identify potential and impending failures in manufacturing equipment.

Perform preventive maintenance and routine repair on manufacturing equipment.

Adjust belt tension using an adjustable mounting base.

Explain how to install, align, and remove a roller chain drive system with adjustable centers.

Use a ruler and a straightedge to measure chain sag.

Explain how to inspect a hydraulic system during operation.

Identify potential maintenance issues with basic pneumatics, fluid power, mechanic transmissions, belt drives, electromechanical relays, and chain drive systems and indicate when maintenance personnel should be informed about problems.

Compare pneumatics and fluid power and give an example of when and how they are used.

Describe the function of a mechanical power transmission system.

Describe the functions of the three basic components of a belt drive.

Describe the function of an electromechanical relay and give an example of its use.

Describe the functions of the three basic components of a chain drive.