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Undertake production planning and control procedures in a print
industry company
Level
5
Credits
15
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to undertake production
planning, and follow production control processes in a print industry company
in accordance with established company practice.
Subfield
Printing
Domain
Print Industry Management
Status
Registered
Status date
20 March 2009
Date version published
20 March 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Competenz
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0005
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special note
Definitions
established company practice refers to the documented policies and procedures set down
by the print industry company;
print industry includes all sectors involved in print and packaging industries including
pre-production, production, and post-production activities, suppliers and distributors. The
sectors include graphic pre-press, digital output, sheet-fed, reel-fed, screen, binding and
finishing, and fibreboard packaging;
print industry company refers to a business involved within the print or packaging
industries.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Undertake production planning in a print industry company in accordance with established
company practice.
Performance criteria
1.1
Production planning of workplace resources is carried out to meet the
requirements of the job.
Range
1.2
equipment availability and capacity, labour availability, substrates,
materials and other requirements.
Jobs are routed through the workplace to achieve maximum efficiency of
resource utilisation while meeting the requirements of the job.
Range
workflow, workload, completion date.
1.3
Production hours required and commencement times are scheduled to meet the
completion requirements of the job.
1.4
Allocation of instructions, materials, and other processes are carried out to meet
the requirements of the job.
Range
job specifications, materials requisitions, ancillary processes
required, completion times.
1.5
Work-in-progress is monitored against planned production schedules.
1.6
Production planning board or system is used for scheduling work.
Range
work-in-progress, expected completion dates, work constraints,
bottlenecks.
Element 2
Follow production control processes in a print industry company in accordance with
established company practice.
Performance criteria
2.1
Equipment capacity utilisation is monitored.
Range
under/over utilisation, co-ordination of labour resources to meet
demands.
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2.2
Inventory control is monitored to ensure availability of substrates, materials and
other supplies.
Range
2.3
Effectiveness of purchasing and supply of materials and outside services is
monitored.
Range
2.4
delivery performance, quality, quantity.
The achievement of quality standards and procedures is monitored.
Range
2.5
movements in stock levels (receipts, issues, wastage, loss).
job specifications, company standards.
Scheduled downtime and maintenance programmes are allowed for and
monitored when undertaking production planning.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, 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 NZQA 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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