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Title
Carry out advanced maintenance for sheet-fed printing
Level
4
Credits
5
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: adjust the
various systems of the sheet-fed printing press and associated
auxiliary equipment; and adjust and calibrate measuring
gauges and instruments as available in the workplace.
Classification
Printing > Printing - Sheet-Fed
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Prerequisite: Unit 341, Carry out routine and preventive
maintenance common to the printing industry, or demonstrate
equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
Workplace practices refer to the documented procedures for the machine and/or
workplace.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Adjust the various systems of the sheet-fed printing press and associated auxiliary
equipment used in the workplace.
Range
ink delivery and control system, rollers, damping system (offset), press
cylinders, feeder, sheet transfer system, register system, delivery system.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Printing press and auxiliary equipment adjustments required for optimum
operation are identified while carrying out inspection and maintenance.
1.2
Adjustments and repairs required for optimum operation of the press and
auxiliary equipment are carried out or reported in accordance with workplace
practices.
Outcome 2
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Adjust and calibrate measuring gauges and instruments as available in the workplace.
Range
may include, but is not limited to – micrometer, densitometer, pH meter,
conductivity meter, packing gauge, bar code verifier, spectrophotometer.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Adjustments required for measuring gauges and instruments used in the
workplace are identified while carrying out inspection and maintenance.
2.2
Calibration is checked and adjusted to ensure that accurate production
standards are maintained.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
31 March 1995
31 December 2019
Revision
2
20 July 1998
31 December 2019
Review
3
25 May 1999
31 December 2019
Review
4
22 October 2003
31 December 2019
Rollover and
Revision
5
12 December 2008
Review
6
18 June 2010
31 December 2019
Rollover
7
10 December 2015
31 December 2019
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
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to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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