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Title / Operate a clamshell die cutter in the corrugated packaging industry
Level / 3 / Credits / 8
Purpose / People credited with this unit standard are able to: plan ahead, to avoid delays during make ready and during production running; communicate to ensure that job requirements are met; make ready and run the machine, in accordance with workplace practices, to produce die cut product without avoidable delays and to meet job requirements; stack product on a pallet or slip sheet, in accordance with workplace practices, to meet production order requirements; and follow safety requirements for the machine being used.
Classification / Fibreboard Packaging > Corrugated Case Converting
Available grade / Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and safety prerequisites / Unit 340, Demonstrate knowledge of safe working practices in the printing and graphic pre-press industries, or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Recommended skills and knowledge / Unit 10129, Demonstrate knowledge of a clamshell die cutter in the corrugated packaging industry, or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
1 All workplace practices must meet any applicable and recognised codes of practice, and documented workplace health, safety, and environmental procedures for personal, product, workplace health, safety, and environmental matters, and the obligations required under current law including the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, Resource Management Act 1991, Privacy Act 1993 and their subsequent amendments.
2 Workplace practices refer to the documented procedures for the machine and/or workplace.
3 Board warped in excess of 2% is not to be used during assessment. The process for defining and calculating warp percentage is as follows: when a warped board is laid on a level surface so as to form a shallow arch, the maximum vertical deviation from the horizontal is expressed as a percentage of the board dimension that forms the arch.
4 Assessments must be conducted where board sheet size is 20% above the machine’s specified minimum limit and 20% below the machine’s specified maximum limit.
5 Assessment is to be carried out on a new job, or a job involving the first time use of a new die or a reknived die.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Plan ahead, to avoid delays during make ready and during production running.
Evidence requirements
1.1 Procedures for the handling of priority orders where special job prioritisation is scheduled are described and followed in accordance with workplace practices.
1.2 Before make ready work begins, production order documentation is confirmed as the documentation required for the next job scheduled.
1.3 Identification for the initial pallet load is prepared in advance of production running in accordance with workplace practices.
1.4 All required materials and documentation are confirmed as available prior to make ready.
Range may include but is not limited to – dies, samples, lay cards, make ready sheets, slip sheets, pallets, tools, board to be run, load identification, production order, matrix.
Outcome 2
Communicate to ensure that job requirements are met.
Evidence requirements
2.1 Staff responsible for delivering materials for the next job are clearly advised of the requirements in accordance with workplace practices ensuring that no avoidable delays occur.
Range forkhoist operators, pre-press.
Outcome 3
Make ready the machine to make die cut product without avoidable delays.
Evidence requirements
3.1 Make ready is completed in accordance with workplace practices and to meet job requirements.
Range time allowed, board condition;
job requirements which may include – run length, print specifications, take off requirements, number of ups in die cutting.
Outcome 4
Run the machine, in accordance with workplace practices, to make die cut product to meet job requirements.
Evidence requirements
4.1 All checks on the board to be die cut are carried out.
Range checks may include but are not limited to – board warp, delamination, wet board, damage to liners, print registration outside specification, inadequate ink coverage, print position outside specification.
4.2 Cutting, creasing and die cutting to print are all achieved to meet the job requirements.
4.3 Production running speed is maintained ensuring that required quality and production standards are met.
4.4 Checks for faults are carried out during production running.
4.5 Action is immediately taken to identify and rectify any faults, and fault free production running is successfully resumed.
4.6 Actions available to counter the effect of board warp exceeding 2% are explained in terms of workplace practices.
Outcome 5
Stack product on a pallet or slip sheet, in accordance with workplace practices, to meet production order requirements.
Evidence requirements
5.1 Product is continuously stacked, throughout production.
5.2 Checks for obvious visible faults are carried out.
Range obvious visible faults include – cutting and creasing faults, die to print faults, damaged product, unstripped waste.
5.3 Actions to be taken in the event of faults ranged at evidence requirement 5.2 occurring are followed.
5.4 Load format and load identification are carried out.
Range load format may include – specific requirements for counts, bundling, strapping, unitising, palletising.
5.5 Documentation is completed.
Range may include but is not limited to – internal fault error sheets, time sheets, record of waste, production order data, quality control data, machine fault reports, feed stock sheets, maintenance sheets, load identification, provision of product sample(s), final count confirmation, information required for the next time the job is run.
Outcome 6
Follow safety requirements for the machine being used.
Range operating manual, workplace practices.
Evidence requirements
6.1 Machine start up, shutdown and emergency procedures in the workplace are explained.
6.2 Hazard control measures, as circulated by the company, are described and followed.
6.3 Hazards or potential hazards in the workplace are identified and reported in accordance with workplace practices.
Replacement information / This unit standard and unit standard 10129 have been replaced by unit standard 27790.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 / 18 February 1998 / 31 December 2015
Revision / 2 / 27 March 2001 / 31 December 2015
Review / 3 / 28 February 2006 / 31 December 2015
Rollover / 4 / 12 December 2008 / 31 December 2015
Review / 5 / 20 September 2012 / 31 December 2019
Rollover / 6 / 10 December 2015 / 31 December 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference / 0005
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.
CompetenzSSB Code 101571 / Ó New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016 / / New Zealand Qualifications Aut