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Title
Manage technical aspects of groundwood operations
Level
4
Credits
20
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: maintain
groundwood production, monitor and control the efficient
performance of groundwood production; and repair, prepare,
and sharpen stones.
Classification
Wood Fibre Manufacturing > Pulp Making
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Definition
Worksite documentation refers to instructions to staff on policy and procedures
(including the application of legislation to worksite situations) which are formally
documented, and are available for reference at the worksite. Examples are standard
operating procedures, specifications, manuals, and manufacturer’s information.
2
The following apply to the performance of all outcomes of this unit standard:
a
All work practices must meet recognised codes of practice and documented
worksite health and safety and environmental procedures (where these exceed
code) for personal, product, and worksite health and safety, and must meet the
obligations required under current legislation, including the Health and Safety in
Employment Act 1992, the Resource Management Act 1991, and their
subsequent amendments.
b
All work practices must meet documented worksite operating procedures. This
includes the recording (by electronic or non-electronic means) of activities,
events, and decisions.
c
All communications made in relation to this unit standard must be made in
accordance with worksite procedures for content, recipient, timing, and method.
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Maintain groundwood production.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Daily production figures are maintained in accordance with worksite
documentation.
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Range
1.2
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pocket counters, storage levels, grinder down time, daily
tonnages, pulp quality variations.
Solutions are identified and implemented through analysing grinder problems.
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hydraulics, valving, stone condition, finger bar settings.
1.3
Production rate is maintained in accordance with worksite documentation and
process requirements.
1.4
Identification of the maintenance needs of grinders allows repairs to be
arranged in accordance with worksite documentation.
Outcome 2
Monitor and control the efficient performance of groundwood production.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Product specifications are maintained by the timely adjustment of operating
parameters.
Range
2.2
operating parameters may include but are not limited to – finger
bar position, showers, freeness, consistency, energy, rejects.
Production schedule is achieved by entering data and monitoring and
interpretation of process data.
Range
process data may include but is not limited to – energy per tonne,
stone condition, freeness.
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Range
freeness produced from stones, length of sharpening cycle, tonnes
produced, consistency,
blue glass test.
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2.3
Production of in-specification product is maintained by the monitoring of output
product quality.
2.4
Operating and equipment faults and malfunctions are identified, and corrective
action is taken, in accordance with worksite documentation.
Range
equipment faults and malfunctions – mechanical, electrical,
instrumentation, hydraulic, distributed control system.
2.5
Monitoring of fibre losses allows corrective actions are taken to minimise fibre
loss in accordance with worksite documentation.
2.6
Visual inspection of stone quality, and monitoring pulp quality, allows corrective
action to be taken in accordance with worksite documentation.
2.7
Monitoring fresh water usage allows action to be taken to minimise usage in
accordance with worksite documentation.
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Outcome 3
Repair, prepare, and sharpen stones.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Safe work practices associated with repairing, preparing, and sharpening
stones are identified and used in accordance with worksite documentation and
legislative requirements.
Range
practices may include but are not limited to – isolation procedures,
lock outs, emergency stops, machine guarding, wearing
appropriate safety equipment.
3.2
Stone preparation is explained in terms of stone specifications, repair material,
burr selection, specific energy, and pulp freeness.
3.3
Indicators of the requirements for stone sharpening are explained in accordance
with worksite documentation.
Range
3.4
Groundwood stones are repaired in accordance with worksite documentation.
Range
3.5
3.7
patch, replace segments.
Groundwood stones are prepared and sharpened in accordance with worksite
documentation.
preparing may include but is not limited to – truing, dressing,
sharpening.
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Preventative maintenance and cleaning requirements for wood grinders are
demonstrated in accordance
with worksite documentation.
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Range
3.6
indicators may include but are not limited to – sharpening cycle,
burr selection, showering, finger bar changes and adjustments,
stone truing, stone bevelling.
Output meets worksite targets for full pockets and stone condition.
Outcome 4
Monitor and control the efficient performance of wood grinders.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Monitoring and interpretation of process information ensures efficient grinder
performance and legislative requirements are met in accordance with worksite
documentation.
4.2
Monitoring of billet quality ensures that pulp quality from the stone meets
worksite specification requirements.
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billet quality includes – size, bark, sapstain.
Range
4.3
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Operating and equipment faults and malfunctions are identified, and corrective
action is taken, in accordance with worksite documentation.
equipment faults and malfunctions – electrical, mechanical,
hydraulic, instrumentation.
Range
4.4
Production rate is regulated in accordance with worksite documentation and
process requirements.
4.5
Production, maintenance, and quality records are explained and completed in
accordance with worksite documentation.
operating faults and malfunctions – residual bark, short ends,
over-length logs.
Range
4.6
Production, maintenance, and quality records are explained and completed in
accordance with worksite documentation.
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
22 February 1995
31 December 2017
Revision
2
27 January 1997
31 December 2017
Revision
3
16 February 1999
31 December 2017
This
unit
standard
is2017
5
24
October 2014
31 December
Consent and Moderation Requirements
(CMR) reference
0173
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Review
4
18 December 2006
31 December 2017
Review
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.
Competenz
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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.
This unit standard is
expiring
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016