Manufacturing Day is your day to explore the high-tech world of manufacturing. Dive into campus and learn more about OTECH’s manufacturing programs like welding, automation, machining and composites. Then tour local manufacturing employers as a VIP.
Event Schedule |
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| 9:00 | Arrival |
| 9:15 – 9:45 | Company Interactions |
| 9:55 – 10:30 | Manufacturing Activities (in Manufacturing Technology Building) |
| – | Lunch |
| 11:35 – 1:45 | Company Site Tours |
Note: Some groups will have an inverse schedule to provide smaller numbers for company tours
For questions or concerns, contact outreach@otech.edu
Registration is not currently available.
Throughout the day, you’ll tour various manufacturing companies local to Weber County.
Please select which cluster of programs to tour on MFG Day
The composite industry can take you where you want to go, and help you achieve the lifestyle you want whether you are interested in the aerospace industry helping build commercial airliners, or the defense and military industry working as a team to build the new F-35 fighter jet or attack helicopters. You could also venture to one of the recreational industries making skis, bicycles, surfboards or other high end sporting goods. Composites are widely used in the manufacturing the some of the lightest, strongest and fastest vehicles known to man.
Non-destructive inspection technicians work with engineers to define and implement tests that locate and characterize material conditions and flaws that might otherwise cause planes to crash, reactors to fail, trains to derail, pipelines to burst and a variety of less visible but equally troubling events. You will not only obtain a solid understanding of the principles of NDI, but also related skills that will enable you to be a viable asset in the aerospace, nuclear, infrastructure, petroleum and the defense industries, to name a few.
Non-destructive inspection is applied physics.
How does an idea become reality? Imagine being a part of creating a rocket engine with over 22 million horsepower, Rattlesnake Rapids at Lagoon, the Egyptian Theater on 24th Street, or even designing your own home. All of these things and millions more were created here in Utah and a Computer Aided Designer was there every time. Computer Aided Designers work with engineers, designers, and architects to create a variety of models and drawings. Sometimes the Computer Aided Designer’s digital model will be used directly with high-tech equipment (example: 3D printing); other times, the Computer Aided Designer will prepare detailed drawings.
You’ve seen it on TV – people using a machine to carve out a wicked custom aluminum wheel they designed on the computer. Well, those people are machining, and it might be just the career you’re looking for. Machining is defined as any operation that changes the shape, surface finish, or mechanical properties of a material by the application of special tools and equipment. Machining is almost always a process where a cutting tool removes material to effect the desired change in the work piece.
Jumpstart a career in a dynamic, high-demand field that is the definition of “hands-on.” Students in this program will learn a variety of welding processes and gain entry-level job skills to work in a production environment as a welder.
Do you like to tinker? Are you fascinated with how things work?
A career in industrial automation can have you working with machine automation including packaging machines and lapping machines, and process automation including refineries and chemical plants.
Industrial automation is the use of different control systems to operate equipment like machines, factory processes, heat treating ovens and boilers, aircraft and other applications with minimal to no human intervention. Automation can provide enhanced quality, precision and accuracy. It involves various control systems operation that enables operating equipment to run on its own with increased speed for completing tasks.
Robotics serves as an important means to provide industrial automation. Companies utilizing hardware and software automation benefit from increased productivity, safety and profitability.
As an Industrial Automation technician, you will troubleshoot, repair and maintain automated control systems, including hydraulic and pneumatic systems, robotic systems, PLCs and mechanical drive systems.
Special thanks to Manufacturing Day’s sponsor, the Ogden-Weber Technical College Foundation.
