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Title
Set and operate a slitter-creaser on a corrugator or laminator for
fibreboard manufacture
Level
3
Credits
12
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: confirm
required equipment is available and in good condition before
start up; change settings of slitter knives and creasers for
production; slit and crease board during production; maintain
equipment in good condition; and follow safety requirements for
the equipment being used.
Classification
Fibreboard Packaging > Fibreboard Manufacture
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 3762, Identify faults in corrugated board in the fibreboard
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 equipment and/or
workplace.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Confirm required equipment is available and in good condition before start up.
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
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Evidence requirements
1.1
Spare creasers and slitter knife blades are confirmed as being available in the
work area in accordance with workplace practices.
1.2
All spare blades are confirmed as being in good condition in accordance with
workplace practices.
1.3
The setting of the creasers and slitter knives on the first bar to be used are
confirmed as being those specified on the job documentation.
Outcome 2
Change settings of slitter knives and creasers for production.
Evidence requirements
2.1
The first slitter knife is set to produce trim of not less than 5mm.
2.2
The secondary slitter knives are set to reduce excessive trim widths in
accordance with workplace practices.
2.3
All creasers and slitter knives are set in accordance with the specifications of
the job documentation.
Range
2.4
following the setting of the first slitter knife, all subsequent knives
are set (1mm from the first slitter knife, and all creasers are set
(1mm crease to crease or crease to knife;
faces of all slitter knives are square to each other;
creaser bosses are aligned with each other.
All creasers and slitter knives are securely locked onto the bar in accordance
with workplace practices.
Outcome 3
Slit and crease board during production.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Slitter-creaser is operated in accordance with workplace practices and to meet
job requirements.
Range
3.2
running speed, safety requirements;
required quality – clean slits, clean bends at crease lines, liners
not split at creases.
Lateral adjustments are made at the start of each new production run ensuring
minimum waste is produced in accordance with the requirements of workplace
practices.
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3.3
Trim waste is removed continuously from equipment in accordance with
workplace practices.
3.4
Where trim waste suction systems are used, breaks in trim waste are reinserted
into chutes immediately in accordance with workplace practices.
3.5
At an order change, no turnover is made until confirmation is provided that the
existing run is completed in accordance with workplace practices.
3.6
Diverting ramps, where present, are operated in accordance with production
requirements and workplace practices.
Outcome 4
Maintain equipment in good condition.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Equipment is cleaned in accordance with workplace practices.
4.2
Damaged and blunt slitter knife blades are replaced or maintained in
accordance with workplace practices.
4.3
Stocks of spare equipment are stored in accordance with workplace practices.
Outcome 5
Follow safety requirements for the equipment being used.
Range
operating manual, workplace practices.
Evidence requirements
5.1
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.
5.4
Nip points on the slitter-creaser are identified.
Range
includes at least those nip points between – rotating slitter and
creaser bosses, bosses moving horizontally along shafts,
movement of diverting ramps (where these are present).
Replacement information
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
This unit standard and unit standard 3774 have been
replaced by unit standard 27800.
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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
28 April 1995
31 December 2015
Revision
2
19 December 1997
31 December 2015
Revision
3
27 March 2001
31 December 2015
Review
4
27 April 2005
31 December 2015
Rollover and
Revision
5
12 December 2008
Review
6
20 September 2012
31 December 2019
Rollover
7
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.
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.
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
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