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Title
Operate a semi-automatic gluer in the corrugated packaging industry
Level
3
Credits
8
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify the
components of the semi-automatic gluer used in the workplace,
and demonstrate knowledge of their functions and adjustments;
plan ahead, to avoid delays during make ready and during
production running; undertake checks and set up the machine
in accordance with workplace practices; run the machine, in
accordance with workplace practices, to meet job requirements
during production running; 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 10149, Demonstrate knowledge of glues and gluing, and
folding faults in the corrugated packaging industry; and Unit
10117, Stack converted product on a pallet or slip sheet 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.
2
Workplace practices refer to the documented procedures for the machine and/or
workplace.
3
A semi-automatic gluer is here defined as a gluer requiring manual folding and
feeding prior to the subsequent automatic gluing process.
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4
No assessment of outcome 3 is possible should final checks at outcome 2 indicate
that squareness is not achievable in the board to be used in production running.
5
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.
6
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.
7
Competence in this unit standard must be demonstrated by the production running of
a new as well as a repeat production task.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Identify the components of the semi-automatic gluer used in the workplace, and
demonstrate knowledge of their functions and adjustments.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The glue delivery and application components are identified, and their functions
and purposes are described.
Range
components may include but are not limited to – glue wheels, glue
nozzles, glue drums, cold glue tanks, hot melt tanks, glue shoes,
air lines, glue blocks, glue pumps, hot melt glue heads, glue
hoses, timing controls, pressure controls, sidelays.
1.2
All adjustments requiring to be made to the components identified in evidence
requirement 1.1 are explained in accordance with workplace practices.
1.3
The wash up system and process is explained in terms of workplace practices.
1.4
The set up requirements for inside gluing and outside gluing are explained in
terms of the differences between them.
Outcome 2
Plan ahead, to avoid delays during make ready and during production running.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Procedures for the handling of priority orders where special job prioritisation is
scheduled are described and followed in accordance with workplace practices.
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2.2
Before make ready work begins, production order documentation is confirmed
as the documentation required for the next job scheduled.
2.3
Identification for the initial pallet load or slip sheet load is prepared in advance
of production running in accordance with workplace practices.
2.4
All required materials and documentation are confirmed as available prior to
make ready.
Range
2.5
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
2.6
forkhoist operators, own machine crew.
Machine crew confirm that they understand the specific make ready and
production tasks they are responsible for.
Range
2.7
may include but are not limited to – glue, glue nozzles, samples,
slip sheets, pallets, tools, board to be run, documentation, load
identification, production order documentation.
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 special production
needs are identified, and their requirements are met through clear oral
communication with crew members.
Outcome 3
Undertake checks and set up the machine in accordance with workplace practices.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Production order documentation is checked and requirements for job are
confirmed.
3.2
Production order documentation requirements are followed.
Range
3.3
actions required must include but are not limited to – determining
whether inside or outside gluing, agreeing palletisation and/or
bundling requirements with take off crew, agreeing ongoing quality
checks with take off crew.
Checks are carried out on the board to be folded and glued.
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Range
3.4
checks must include but are not limited to checking to ensure
board – has clean cuts and slots and edges, folds squarely and at
crease lines, is free from visible crush and damage and printing
defects.
Machine settings are made ensuring that a secure closure and the correct glue
position are achieved within the first two sheets of board fed to meet production
order specifications.
Range
3.5
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sidelay, roller pressures, glue application, glue timing and delivery.
All final checks to be undertaken prior to production running are carried out.
Range
squareness, make-up of box, glue position, glue bond.
3.6
Action is immediately taken to rectify any faults ranged at evidence requirement
3.5.
3.7
The requirements for running board warped in excess of 2% are described in
terms of workplace practices.
Outcome 4
Run the machine, in accordance with workplace practices, to meet job requirements.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Production running is maintained ensuring that the required quality and
production standards are maintained.
4.2
At least one sheet in every 300 or one sheet per pallet load (whichever is the
more frequent) is physically checked to establish all production specifications
are met.
Range
4.3
checks must include but are not limited to, those for – squareness,
make-up of box, glue position, secure closure.
Communications are maintained with the take off crew to ensure that all
required ongoing visual checks are made.
Range
ongoing visual check must include at least a check on glue
position.
4.4
The actions to be taken, if any faults ranged at evidence requirement 4.2 occur,
are followed.
4.5
Load format and load identification are carried out.
Range
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load format may include – specific requirements for counts,
bundling, strapping, unitising, palletising.
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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
21723, and unit standard 21727 have been replaced by
unit standard 27798.
This unit standard replaced unit standard 10148 and unit
standard 10150.
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
27 April 2005
31 December 2015
Rollover and
Revision
2
12 December 2008
Review
3
20 September 2012
31 December 2019
Rollover
4
10 December 2015
31 December 2019
31 December 2015
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.
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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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