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CACT @ North Orange County Community College District

Training, Development  & Innovation Resource Center
1830 W. Romneya Drive, 5th Fl.
Anaheim, CA 92801

Norma A. Alvarado, CACT Director
T (714) 808-4611
F (714) 808-4606
Email: nalvarado@sce.edu

CACT @ North Orange Community College District

Industry Focus

The CACT @ the North Orange Community College District, was established to enhance the strength and competitiveness of California’s small to medium-sized manufacturing and technology-based companies and its current and future workforce; through technology transfer, continuous process improvement, and workforce empowerment.

The NOCCCD CACT has evolved into the area’s resource for customized, industry-specific training in:

  • Advanced and environmentally conscious manufacturing processes
  • Workforce development
  • Vocational English-as-a-Second Language (VESL) for Advanced Manufacturing
  • Introduction to Advanced Manufacturing, and in new and emerging technologies. 

The NOCCCD CACT’s primary industry focus is printing and Flexography (label manufacturing) but it also provides training in machine technology, welding, construction, and engineering.

The NOCCCD CACT, through its Demonstration Site at Fullerton College, provides industry certification, credit classes and training in Printing Technology, and Flexography/Label Manufacturing—Fullerton’s Printing Technology Program is the only community college-based printing program left in Southern California.

 

Core Competencies

  • CNC
  • Total Quality Management
  • Printing Technology/Flexography
  • Introduction to Advanced Manufacturing
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Vocational English as a Second Language (VESL) for Manufacturing

Customers

  • Alcoa Fastening Systems
  • Abbot Label
  • Boeing Company
  • Label King
  • LASCO Bathware
  • Raytheon
  • Toshiba
  • Universal Alloy

Special Projects

Student Career Pathways

  • Outreach and Career exploration assistance for secondary school
  • NOCCCD CACT offers technology academies for high school students (grades 11 & 12) on Saturdays at 4 local community colleges

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The interview with the CACT was quite an eye-opener, causing us to realize for the first time just how much 'big bang for the buck' training the Community Colleges offer to local manufacturers and metalworking job shops.

C.H. Bush, Editor
CNC West Magazine