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Title
Make ready and run an automatic straight line folder gluer in the
corrugated packaging industry
Level
3
Credits
25
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: plan ahead,
to avoid delays during make ready and during production
running; communicate to ensure job requirements are met;
make ready for folding and gluing to meet job requirements; run
the machine, in accordance with workplace practices, to make
folded and glued product to meet job requirements; and follow
safety requirements for the machine being used.
Classification
Fibreboard Packaging > Corrugated Case Converting
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Unit 340, Demonstrate knowledge of safe working practices in
the printing and graphic pre-press industries, or demonstrate
equivalent knowledge and skills.
Recommended skills
and knowledge
Unit 10141, Demonstrate knowledge of automatic folder gluer
machinery in the corrugated packaging industry; Unit 10142,
Use squaring and counting equipment in the corrugated
packaging industry; Unit 10149, Demonstrate knowledge of
glues and gluing, and folding faults in the corrugated packaging
industry; Unit 10113, Set up and run a hopper feeder for high
speed machinery in the corrugated packaging industry; and
Unit 10154, Use load forming and strapping equipment in the
corrugated packaging industry; or demonstrate equivalent
knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
1
All workplace practices must meet any applicable and recognised codes of practice,
and documented workplace health, safety, and environmental procedures for
personal, product, workplace health, safety, and environmental matters, and the
obligations required under current law including the Health and Safety in Employment
Act 1992, Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, Resource
Management Act 1991, Privacy Act 1993 and their subsequent amendments.
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Workplace practices refer to the documented procedures for the machine and/or
workplace.
3
Competence in this unit standard may be assessed at the folding and gluing sections
of either a flexo folder gluer or an automatic straight line gluer ie, machine with a full
fold function from a flat sheet. Assessments should not be conducted at any
specialty gluer.
4
It is recommended that assessments be conducted using light grammage B flute
board. However, with the agreement of the candidate, board other than this may be
used at assessment.
5
Assessments must cover both glue in and glue out production requirements in two
separate repeat production tasks.
6
Board warped in excess of 2% is not to be used during assessment. The process for
defining and calculating warp percentage is as follows: when a warped board is laid
on a level surface so as to form a shallow arch, the maximum vertical deviation from
the horizontal is expressed as a percentage of the board dimension that forms the
arch.
7
Assessments must be conducted where board sheet size is 20% above the
machine’s specified minimum limit and 20% below the machine’s specified maximum
limit.
8
Competence in this unit standard may be assessed at any machine having a full fold
function from a flat sheet, and configured with a hopper feeder.
9
At assessment, the production task must be a job new to the candidate requiring a
maximum of two glue points. This assessment task is to be carried out without the
use of prior settings.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Plan ahead, in accordance with workplace practices, to avoid delays during make ready
and during production running.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Procedures for the handling of priority orders where special job prioritisation is
scheduled are described and followed in accordance with workplace practices.
1.2
Before make ready work begins, production order documentation is confirmed
as the documentation required for the next job scheduled.
1.3
Identification for the initial pallet load or slip sheet load is prepared in advance
of production running in accordance with workplace practices.
1.4
All required materials and documentation are confirmed as available prior to
make ready.
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materials may include but are not limited to – glue, glue heads,
samples, slip sheets, pallets, tools, board to be run,
documentation, load identification.
Outcome 2
Communicate to ensure that job requirements are met.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Any forward rescheduling to match up similar jobs is agreed with other staff in
accordance with workplace practices.
Range
2.2
Staff responsible for delivering materials for the next job are clearly advised of
the requirements in accordance with workplace practices ensuring that no
avoidable delays occur.
Range
2.3
forkhoist operators, pre-press, own machine crew.
Machine crew confirm that they understand the specific make ready and
production tasks they are responsible for.
Range
2.4
supervisor, manager, planning department.
task responsibilities – stripping down machine from the previous
job, setting up for the next job, checks at feed end, checks to be
made at take off.
Potential problems during make ready and production, and any special
production needs are identified, and their requirements are met through clear
communication with crew members.
Outcome 3
Make ready for folding and gluing to meet job requirements.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Production order documentation is checked to ensure that all specifications are
complete and any discrepancies are reported.
Range
documentation may be written or electronic.
3.2
All initial machine settings are made in accordance with workplace practices,
and confirmed against production order documentation.
3.3
The full length of the folding section is utilised to provide a continuous and
smooth folding of product.
Range
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The glue delivery system is set to ensure that glue is applied in the position and
at the application level necessary to meet job requirements.
Range
glue type, glue heads, timing.
3.5
Any changes required to initial settings are made in accordance with workplace
practices.
3.6
A fault-free folding sequence is achieved in accordance with workplace
practices.
Range
3.7
faults may include – skewing, fishtailing, failure of board to fold at
crease lines, failure to achieve continuous and unbroken glue
application, excessive glue squeezed out, glue applied out of
position.
Make ready is completed in accordance with workplace practices and to meet
job requirements.
Range
board condition;
job requirements which may include – run length, take off
requirements, gluing requirements.
Outcome 4
Run the machine, in accordance with workplace practices, to make folded and glued
product to meet job requirements.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Production running is maintained to meet the requirements of the job, ensuring
that the reject rate does not exceed that set down to meet workplace practices.
Range
4.2
time allocated;
job requirements – box style and design, run length, take off
requirements, gluing requirements, folding requirements;
board condition – warp level, moisture, content, grammage, size,
presence of faults.
Bonding of product is achieved.
Range
incorrect bonding may include – failure to bond from inadequate
compression, or the occurrence of flat crush from excessive
compression, insufficient glue.
4.3
Checks for faults are carried out during production running.
4.4
Action is immediately taken to rectify any faults, and fault-free production
running is successfully resumed.
4.5
Proactive measures to reduce the likelihood of faults occurring during
production are followed.
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proactive measures may include but are not limited to checks on –
machine settings and machine running, condition of board being
input, condition of finished product at take off, glue levels.
4.6
Actions available to counter the effect of board warp exceeding 2% are
explained in terms of workplace practices.
4.7
Load format and load identification are carried out.
Range
4.8
load format may include – specific requirements for counts,
bundling, strapping, unitising, palletising.
Documentation is completed.
Range
may include but is not limited to – internal fault error sheets, time
sheets, record of waste, production order data, quality control
data, machine fault reports, feed stock sheets, maintenance
sheets, load identification, provision of product sample(s), final
count confirmation, information required for the next time the job is
run.
Outcome 5
Follow safety requirements for the machine being used.
Range
operating manual, workplace practices.
Evidence requirements
5.1
Machine start up, shutdown and emergency procedures in the workplace are
explained.
5.2
Hazard control measures, as circulated by the company, are described and
followed.
5.3
Hazards or potential hazards in the workplace are identified and reported in
accordance with workplace practices.
Replacement information
This unit standard, unit standard 3681, unit standard
21724, and unit standard 21727 have been replaced by
unit standard 27798.
This unit standard replaced unit standard 10143 and unit
standard 10144.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
27 April 2005
31 December 2015
Rollover
2
12 December 2008
31 December 2015
Review
3
20 September 2012
31 December 2019
Rollover
4
10 December 2015
31 December 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0005
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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