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This is a common entry-level position, primarily tasked with fusing metal components together according to blueprints in a repetitive assembly setting.
What is a Production Welder or Welding Fabricator?
This type of robot is designed to safely work alongside humans on the factory floor without traditional safety cages.
What is a Collaborative Robot or Cobot?
This "additive" manufacturing process builds 3D objects layer by layer.
What is 3D printing or additive manufacturing?
A machine controlled by a computer, often used for precision cutting, like milling or turning.
What is a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine - subtractive manufacturing?
A well-known brand of skid-steer loaders and other construction equipment made by Doosan, is a major ND manufacturer.
What is Bobcat?
This person uses tools like calipers and micrometers to inspect products for defects and ensure they meet design specifications.
What is a Quality Control (QC) Inspector?
This component on the end of a robot arm acts as the robot's hand, gripping, welding, or painting a part.
What is the end-effector or end-of-arm tooling (EOAT)?
The process of joining two pieces of metal by applying heat, causing them to melt and fuse together.
What is welding?
Name one of the main benefits of automation.
What is consistency, reliability, and/or increase safety?
The majority of manufacturing jobs in North Dakota are found in the major cities of Fargo, West Fargo, and this other city.
What is Grand Forks?
This role analyzes customer demand and inventory levels to create and adjust the detailed schedules that dictate what and when products are built.
What is a Production Planner or Supply Chain Planner?
Aside from increased quality, a primary benefit of using robots is improving worker safety by taking over tasks that are dangerous or... what?
What are tasks that are repetitive or monotonous?
This process involves injecting molten plastic into a mold cavity.
What is injection molding?
What is the acronym for the small, specialized computer that is the "brain" controlling automated equipment on an assembly line?
What is PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)?
North Dakota's second-largest manufacturing sector is Food Processing due to its huge supply of this raw material.
What are agricultural crops or wheat/beans/sugarbeets?
This professional uses CAD software to create the 3D models and detailed blueprints that a machinist will follow to build the product.
What is a Design Engineer or Drafter?
The physical location in a factory where a worker or robot performs a specific task, like assembly or inspection.
What is a workstation?
This material removal process uses a rotating cutter to remove material from a workpiece.
What is milling, machining and/or subtractive manufacturing?
A robotic system's ability to "see" and interpret its environment, often used for inspection and guidance.
What is Machine Vision?
In addition to farm equipment, North Dakota manufactures parts for this giant vehicle industry, like cargo systems and aircraft interiors.
What is aerospace or transportation equipment?
This technician is responsible for the programming, calibrating, and troubleshooting of mechanical arms and automated systems on the assembly line.
What is a Robotics Technician?
This term describes a robot's ability to operate without direct human control by sensing its environment and making its own decisions.
What is autonomy or autonomous?
A finishing process that uses tiny abrasive particles carried in a fast-moving stream of air or liquid to clean or polish a surface.
What is sandblasting or abrasive blasting?
This input device tells an automated machine that a part has arrived or that a step has been completed.
What is a sensor?
Dakota Gasification Company manufacturers fertilizer near Beulah, North Dakota. Name one type of fertilizer they produce.
What is Ammonium Sulfate, Anhydrous Ammonia, or Urea?