Course Overview
This senior-level course provides students with advanced bindery and finishing skills. Students will learn how to do complex (e.g. working with diverse materials) set-up and running of a Perfect Binder. Students will continue to build on previously learned machine operating and specialty skills and learn to handle plant floor organization.
Prerequisite(s)
- 50% in GTEC 2365
Credits
4.5
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify and explain complex bindery and different finishing functions and operations.
- Plan the necessary work process for completion of a job that requires a minimum of 4 processes (e.g. stitching, folding, cutting, binding, perforating, scoring, foil stamping, die cutting, etc.).
- Set up the Perfect Binder and perform complex job set ups.
- Produce an assigned job with a minimum of 4 processes to defined job standards.
- Complete job lay-outs that clearly optimize the bindery equipment and meet the customer's needs.
- Lead an operating crew in completion of a complex bindery or finishing project.
- Perform complex maintenance of the Folder, Stitcher, Cutter and Perfect Binder and other equipment.
- Complete all bindery and finishing tasks safely.
- Maintain a clean and safe workplace.
- Identify the degree of complexity of substrates to be bound and/or finished and recommend the best (most suitable) substrate for the intended binding and/or finishing work.
Effective as of Fall 2006
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