Industrial Maintenance Technology

CIP Code -470303

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AAS Industrial Maintenance Technology  TD Industrial Maintenance Technology 

Mission

The mission of the Associate of Applied Science in Industrial Maintenance Technology is to provide classroom instruction and practical shop experience to prepare students to succeed through skills training programs. We are committed to teaching what is needed, when it is needed, and where it is needed with available resources. Program content is supplemented with employability skills, with safe and efficient work practices, and with the use of current industry standards and techniques.

Program Description

The Associate of Applied Science in Industrial Maintenance Technology is designed to provide specialized classroom instruction and practical shop experience to prepare students for employment in a variety of jobs in the industrial maintenance field. The Industrial Maintenance Technology program prepares individuals to install, repair, and maintain industrial machinery and equipment such as pumps, motors, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, and production machinery. It includes instruction in testing, adjusting, and repairing pneumatic and hydraulic systems, attaching supplemental equipment such as hoses, valves, gates, mechanical, electrical, and electronic control devices. It also includes instruction in material handling equipment, pipefitting, welding, metal fabrication, and millwright.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Louisiana Delta Community College Industrial Maintenance Technology program will be able to:

• Identify and demonstrate appropriate safety and health procedures, safe operation of hand and power tools, materials handling and maintaining a safe working environment.
• Construct foundations for and to assemble, dismantle, align machinery and equipment.
• Identify and demonstrate the ability to apply the principles of Pneumatics.
• Identify and demonstrate the ability to apply the principles of Hydraulics.
• Maintain and repair machinery and equipment.
• Demonstrate basic occupational and employability skills.
• Demonstrate the application of theory.

Partners

• WPS Industries Group
• Pulpmill Services, Inc.
• Steel Fabricators
• Ardagh Group
• Tidsdale Converting, LLC.
• Weyerhaeuser
• Town of Hodge Street Maintenance
• West Rock
• A&W Sheet Metal and Industrial Contractors, LLC.
• Guy Paper & Supply
• Turner Specialty Services
• Drax Biomass