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Set up, run, monitor, and correct a conductor assembly line
Level
2
Credits
8
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: demonstrate knowledge of
the operation of a conductor assembly line; set up and run a conductor
assembly line; and identify and correct routine conductor assembly faults.
Subfield
Cablemaking
Domain
Cable Production
Status
Registered
Status date
21 April 1998
Date version published
20 November 2006
Planned review date
31 December 2008
Entry information
Recommended: Unit 14655, Operate a conductor
assembly line, or demonstrate equivalent knowledge
and skills.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Competenz
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0134
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
All work practices must meet enterprise health and safety requirements.
2
Enterprise means an organisation where training and/or assessment is taking place,
and/or where the trainee is employed.
3
Enterprise procedure is defined as actions which comply with the policies, systems,
and directives in a particular enterprise. Enterprise procedure must comply with the
requirements of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, and subsequent
amendments.
4
Competenz unit designation is CON2.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Demonstrate knowledge of the operation of a conductor assembly line.
Performance criteria
1.1
The construction, operation, and capability of the components on a conductor
assembly line are described, using enterprise equipment.
Range
1.2
The construction and operation of types of conductor assembly lines are
described.
Range
1.3
construction, operation, and capability – evidence is required for
fundamental characteristics only;
components may include – controls, safety features, pay-off,
diestation, capstan, main drive, gearbox, carriage(s), bow, braking
system, loading system, pintle locking system, wire guides, wire
break system, carriage gears, take up.
construction and operation – evidence is required for fundamental
characteristics only;
types of conductor assembly lines – rigid, planetary, bunching, SZ.
The construction and operation of the ancillary equipment on a conductor
assembly line are described, using enterprise equipment.
Range
construction and operation – evidence is required for fundamental
characteristics only;
ancillary equipment may include – welder, packaging,
measurement system.
Element 2
Set up and run a conductor assembly line.
Range
evidence is required for two conductor products, each product of different
configuration and size and material.
Performance criteria
2.1
Line set up information is interpreted in accordance with enterprise
requirements.
2.2
Set up components are selected and verified against job specification in
accordance with enterprise procedure.
Range
2.3
set up components may include – sector rollers, dies, gears,
preforming heads, grease pots.
Set up components are changed in accordance with enterprise procedure.
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2.4
Line is set to job specification.
2.5
Line is started, settings are monitored to maintain product specification, and are
reported in accordance with enterprise procedure.
Element 3
Identify and correct routine conductor assembly faults.
Range
routine conductor assembly faults include – non-conforming: diameter, ovality,
depth, width, surface appearance, weight, electrical resistance; wirebreaks.
Performance criteria
3.1
Routine conductor assembly faults are identified and corrected in accordance
with enterprise procedure.
3.2
Conductor assembly production faults are reported in accordance with
enterprise procedure.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority, or an inter-institutional body
with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from
assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority before
they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP 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.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Competenz info@competenz.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the
content of this unit standard.
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