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Define and produce design specifications for new electronic
telecommunication products and services
Level
6
Credits
6
Purpose
This unit standard is for people who currently are, or will be defining,
developing, and producing design specifications for electronic
telecommunications products and services.
People assessed as competent in this unit standard are able to identify
telecommunications customer and organisational requirements for electronic
telecommunication products and services; and define, develop, and produce
design specifications to satisfy those requirements.
Subfield
Telecommunications
Domain
Telecommunications - Provide Goods and Services
Status
Registered
Status date
28 July 1995
Date version published
25 January 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
New Zealand Certificate in Engineering or equivalent; or
demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry
and teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
Standard setting body (SSB)
ElectroTechnology Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0003
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
Critical underpinning knowledge and skills required: at least three years on-job
experience.
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General Range
Electronic telecommunications products and services: base stations, networks,
testing systems, internal and external plant, proprietary equipment, interconnections,
circuits; those electronic products and services relating to electronic communication
systems including transmission equipment, television studios, teletext, television,
transmitters and receivers, customer premise equipment, operating support systems,
data, voice, links, test equipment, cryptographic systems, power supply, supervisory
control and data acquisition, cabling, electronic warfare, jamming, switches, remote
detonation equipment.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Define design specifications for new electronic telecommunications products and services.
Performance criteria
1.1
Existing and future customer requirements for electronic telecommunications
products and services are identified and recorded.
1.2
Feasibility of meeting identified customer requirements is identified and agreed.
1.3
Functional performance, and security requirements of new electronic
telecommunications products and services are identified and defined.
1.4
Design specifications for electronic telecommunication products and services
are defined and include environmental considerations.
Range
1.5
Logistical requirements are identified, including timetables for deliverables, and
are accurate and complete.
Range
1.6
aesthetics, disposal, life time and life cycle of product or service,
manufacturability, compatibility with existing product or service,
upgrade potential.
time allowed, availability of resources, costs involved.
Defined design specifications comply with organisational policies and
procedures and external standards and statutes and are cost, effective.
Element 2
Develop design specifications for electronic telecommunications products and services.
Performance criteria
2.1
Design specifications for electronic telecommunications products and services
are developed and are concise, accurate, and relevant to agreed definition.
2.2
Developed design specification meets customer requirements, is in the agreed
format, and is available by the agreed time.
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2.3
Developed design specification complies with identified constraints.
Range
budget, time, resources, customer requirements.
2.4
Variations from agreed definition of design requirements for electronic
telecommunication products and services are noted, and changes are agreed
with customer prior to inclusion in final design.
2.5
Developed design specification is documented, filed in a secure environment,
and is available to authorised personnel.
Element 3
Produce design specifications for electronic telecommunications products and services.
Performance criteria
3.1
Design specifications for electronic telecommunications products and services
are produced and are legible, accurate, concise, complete, and understood by
end-users.
Range
end-users – customers, manufacturing, management, technical
experts.
3.2
Produced specification for electronic telecommunications products or services is
in the agreed format and style and is completed by the agreed time.
3.3
Produced specification for electronic telecommunications products and services
includes glossary of terms and definitions used.
3.4
Produced specification is documented and includes current version number and
date produced.
3.5
Produced specification is filed and is available to authorised users.
Range
3.6
References and acknowledgements are noted in produced design specification.
Range
3.7
authorised users – customers, manufacturing, management,
technical experts.
sources used, contributors, co-writers.
Produced design specification for electronic telecommunications products or
services is distributed to authorised personnel promptly on completion of
design, and a register of specification holders is maintained up to date.
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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 the ElectroTechnology Industry Training Organisation
reviewcomments@etito.co.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit
standard.
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