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Identify job details, and measure and mark out material for industrial textile fabrication
Level 3
Credits 6
Purpose This unit standard is for people who work in the industrial textile fabrication
industry. People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify job
details and select and lay out material; obtain dimensions for marking out;
and measure and mark out material.
Subfield Industrial Textile Fabrication
Domain Industrial Textile Fabrication Core Skills
Status Registered
Status date 26 March 2007
Date version published 26 March 2007
Planned review date 31 December 2011
Recommended: Unit 23487, Demonstrate knowledge of Entry information
measuring and marking material, and making templates
for industrial textile fabrication; and Unit 23513,
Demonstrate knowledge of job specifications for the
industrial textile fabrication industry; or demonstrate
equivalent knowledge and skills.
Replacement information This unit standard, unit standard 23487, unit standard
23493, and unit standard 23494 replaced unit standard
1318.
Accreditation Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0014
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1 Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992.
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2 Definition
Company requirements refer to instructions to staff on policy and procedures which
are documented in memo or manual format and are available in the workplace.
These requirements include but are not limited to – company specifications and
procedures, work instructions, manufacturer specifications, product quality
specifications, and legislative requirements.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Identify job details and select and lay out material.
Performance criteria
1.1 Job details are identified, and material type is determined for each piece in
accordance with job specifications and company requirements.
Range job specifications, sample, workplace directive.
1.2 Material is selected from storage in accordance with company requirements.
1.3 Material is laid out for measuring and marking in accordance with company
requirements.
Range moving materials, manual handling, table, floor.
1.4 Material is checked for faults and size to ensure it can accommodate the job in
accordance with company requirements.
1.5 Safe working practices are carried out throughout the task in accordance with
legislative requirements.
Range includes – personal safety; safety of other people; workshop safety;
tool, equipment, and machine safety;
may include but is not limited to – knee pads.
Element 2
Obtain dimensions for marking out.
Performance criteria
2.1 Overall sizes are established in accordance with job specifications.
Range may include but is not limited to – sketch, drawing, plan, sample,
job specifications.
2.2 Individual piece sizes are determined in accordance with job specifications.
2.3 Allowances are applied to each piece in accordance with company
requirements.
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Range seams, hem stretch, shrinkage.
2.4 Piece marking out dimensions are recorded in accordance with company
requirements.
Range workbook, job card.
2.5 Safe working practices are carried out throughout the task in accordance with
legislative requirements.
Range personal safety; safety of other people; workshop safety; tool,
equipment, and machine safety.
Element 3
Measure and mark out material.
Performance criteria
3.1 Layout of pieces is determined for the most economic use of material in
accordance with company requirements.
Range job specifications, fabric and/or material characteristics.
3.2 Pieces are measured and marked out on the selected material using an
appropriate marker in accordance with company requirements.
Range may include but is not limited to – french chalk, felt pen, biro,
pencil, chalkline.
3.3 Piece alignment marks are applied in accordance with company requirements.
Range pen, chalk, holes, cuts, nicks.
3.4 Pieces are marked for product and assembly identification in accordance with
company requirements.
3.5 Safe working practices are carried out throughout the task in accordance with
legislative requirements.
Range personal safety; safety of other people; workshop safety; tool,
equipment, and machine safety.
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.
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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 NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation jlane@mito.org.nz if you wish
to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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