NZQA registered unit standard
285 version 5
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Title
Change dies and set ancillary equipment for extrusion
Level
2
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: remove, fit,
set, and change die and calibration or sizing equipment; and
describe, select, set up, and test ancillary and downstream
equipment.
Classification
Plastics Processing Technology > Extrusion
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Recommended skills
and knowledge
Unit 282, Operate the extrusion machine; and Unit 283, Run
and control the extrusion production process.
Explanatory notes
1
Definitions
Enterprise – an organisation where training and/or assessment is taking place,
and/or where the trainee is employed.
Enterprise procedures – 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.
Extrusion dies refer to common monolayer sheet, pipe, profile, rod, and cablemaking
dies. Typical features may include – die body, die, die lips, tips, mandrel, spider,
torpedo, choker bar, breaker plate, heaters, thermocouples.
Extrusion calibration or sizing equipment refers to – calibration arms and fingers,
vacuum sleeves, pressure sleeves, vacuum calibrator, roll stack, draw down.
2
For assessment, the performance of all outcomes must take place in accordance with
enterprise procedures.
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NZQA registered unit standard
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Remove, fit, set and change die and calibration or sizing equipment.
Range
evidence is required for two sets of dies and associated calibration or sizing
equipment, each set to produce product of different configuration and set-up
criteria.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Die and calibration or sizing equipment are selected, and are assembled.
1.2
The extruder is prepared for a die and calibration or sizing equipment change.
1.3
Dies and calibration or sizing equipment are prepared for removal and fitting.
1.4
Die and calibration or sizing equipment changes are performed.
1.5
Extrusion equipment is set in accordance with job specification.
Outcome 2
Describe, select, set up, and test ancillary and downstream equipment.
Range
ancillary and downstream equipment may include – pay off, sizing, cooling, haul
off, printing, marking, testing, cutting, belling, packaging, coiling, on-line
measuring.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Ancillary and down-stream equipment are identified, their purpose described.
Range
2.2
evidence is required for at least three types of equipment.
Ancillary and downstream equipment is selected, set up, and tested.
Range
Planned review date
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evidence is required for at least three types of equipment which
are different to those provided for evidence requirement 2.1.
31 December 2016
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NZQA registered unit standard
285 version 5
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
28 April 1993
31 December 2014
Revision
2
13 February 1997
31 December 2014
Review
3
23 January 1998
31 December 2014
Review
4
1 July 2016
31 December 2014
Review
5
15 September 2011
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0134
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.
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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