CACT @ De Anza CollegeFoothill-De Anza Community College District Professional & Workforce Development 12345 El Monte Road Ellen Miller, CACT Project Director |
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Industry Focus
The CACT @ De Anza College offers customized on-site training delivered in a flexible way that is oriented to direct business application. The training programs help companies implement basic and advanced manufacturing techniques to aid in achieving technical and business objectives.
All CACT trainers have hands-on industry experience and training expertise within the manufacturing environment—from blueprint reading to Lean Manufacturing. The CACT team of trainers, engineers, and technical staff can provide a wide variety of training and services to enhance advanced technology companies in many strategic and technical areas. Benefits to our customers include greater profitability, high-performance employees, increased productivity, higher ROI, superior quality products. reduced hazards and wastes, lower liability and increased sales.
Core Competencies
- Manufacturing Materials and Processes
- Computer-Aided Numerical Control (CNC)
- CAD/CAM Programming Using Mastercam
- Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0
- SolidWorks
- Applied Geometric Inspection Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T)
- Coordinate Measuring Machines(CMM)
- AutoDesk Inventor
- AutoCAD
- Simultaneous Product Development
- Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)
- Design for Manufacturability
- Root Cause Analysis
- Project Management
Current Customers
- Agilent Technologies
- BAE Systems
- Caliper Life Sciences
- Carl Zeiss Meditech
- Chordiant
- Cisco Systems
- Coherent
- Conceptus Incorporated
- CPI Inc.
- E3 Institute
- EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute)
- Intuitive Surgical
- Jai Pulnix
- Johnson & Johnson
- Johnson Matthey Corporation
- KLA Tencor
- Lam Research
- LifeScan Inc.
- Lockheed Martin
- LTX
- Metrika
- Mondavi
- NASA
- National Semiconductor
- Network Appliance
- Osram
- Pelikan Technologies
- Plantronics
- Power TV
- Raytheon
- SAIC
- Savi
- Scientific Atlanta
- Spectra Physics
- SPL World Group
- Stryker Endoscopy
- Support Soft
- Synopsis
- Tecan Systems
- Trend Micro
- Vander-Bend Manufacturing
- Varian Medical Systems
- Varian Analytical Instruments
- Westcor
- WL Gore Associates
- Xenoport
- Xicom Technology
Special Projects
Solar Panel IDRC
SV Solar IDRC (Silicon Valley Solar Industry-Driven Regional Collaborative) is a strategic regional response to meet the need for a skilled workforce in photovoltaic solar system design and installation. This industry-driven effort, responding to the message conveyed at the February 2007 New Energy Workforce SVWorks event, aims to institutionalize within the community colleges training that individual employers are currently having to provide – at cost to productivity and quality.
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