Achievement Standard
Subject Reference / Technology 3.3Title / Develop a proposal for a production process for a client
Level / 3 / Credits / 6 / Assessment / Internal
Subfield / Technology
Domain / Technology - General Education
Status / Expiring / Status date / 4 December 2012
This achievement standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place before the expiry date set out below.
Expiry date / 31 December 2013 / Date version published / 4 December 2012
This achievement standard involves the development of a proposal for a production process for the multi-unit production of a client’s one-off solution(s).
Achievement Criteria
Achievement / Achievement with Merit / Achievement with Excellence- Identify suitability of the client’s one-off solution(s) for multi-unit production. Identify necessary design adaptations to the one-off solution(s) to ensure it is suitable for multi-unit production.
- Identify suitability of the client’s one-off solution(s) for multi-unit production. Identify and explain necessary design adaptations to the one-off solution(s) to ensure it is suitable for multi-unit production.
- Identify suitability of the client’s one-off solution(s) for multi-unit production. Identify and justify necessary design adaptations to the one-off solution(s) to ensure it is suitable for multi-unit production.
- Identify key factors and their implications in developing a brief for the multi-unit production of a client’s one-off solution(s).
- Identify and prioritise key factors, explaining their implications and interactions, in developing a brief for the multi-unit production of a client’s one-off solution(s).
- Identify key factors and justify the prioritisation of key factors, explaining their implications and interactions, in developing a brief for the multi-unit production of a client’s one-off solution(s).
- Identify a suitable mode of multi-unit production and describe the process stages.
- Identify and explain a suitable mode of multi-unit production and explain the process stages and feedback requirements.
- Identify and justify a suitable mode of multi-unit production and justify the process stages. Discuss the process stages in relation to feedback requirements and known and potential variables that require accurate management.
- Estimate resource requirements and their availability for the multi-unit production of a client’s one-off solution(s).
- Estimate and explain resource requirements and their availability for the multi-unit production of a client’s one-off solution(s).
- Estimate and justify resource requirements and discuss their availability for the multi-unit production of a client’s one-off solution(s).
- Estimate the benefits and costs for the client.
- Estimate and explain the benefits and costs for the client and other key stakeholders.
- Estimate and discuss benefits and costs for the client, other key stakeholders and wider-community stakeholders. Predict process viability and critical factors for project success, and discuss means to minimise or maximise estimated impacts.
Explanatory Notes
1This achievement standard is derived from Technology in the New Zealand Curriculum, Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 1995, Level 8; and Hangarau i roto i te Marautanga o Aotearoa, Te Pou Taki Kōrero, Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga, 1999.
2Appropriate reference information is available in Safety and Technology Education: A Guidance Manual for New Zealand Schools, Ministry of Education, and theHealth and Safety Code of Practice for State Primary, Composite and Secondary Schools, Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 1993.
3The client’s one-off solution may be a product or system that the client wishes to take into multi-unit production. The client cannot be the student. However, if the client is representing a group, eg sports team manager, the student may be a non-leading member of this group, eg team member.
4Brief development entails:
- exploration and critical evaluation of the client’s one-off solution(s) to identify its suitability for multi-unit production
- the development of an initial brief that identifies the constraints and opportunities on the mode of production and the processes needed to develop it
- identifying and accessing skills and knowledge that will be needed to refine the brief and fully investigate the identified opportunities and constraints with consideration of key and wider community stakeholder perspectives
- ongoing brief refinement and/or modification is based on the student’s developing understanding of the social and physical environment in which practice is undertaken, and in particular on feedback from key and wider community stakeholders. The student should develop an understanding of the mode of production and the processes proposed for the multi-unit production of the client’s one-off solution(s)
- development of a final brief that will provide specifications for the student, teacher, and key and wider community stakeholders, which includes a means of evaluating the proposal for multi-unit production of the client’s one-off solution(s) as being fit for purpose.
5Modes of multi-unit production includes batch production, continuous production, and semi-continuous production.
6A suitable mode of production is one where the characteristics of the process match the requirements of the one-off solution and the social and physical environment where the production process will be sited.
7Examples of:
- Process stages may include such things as storage, transport, delay, inspection, transformation operation, production management.
- Variables may include such things as temperature, volume, length, quantity of output, labour availability, protocols including cultural and professional.
8Resource requirements are the quantities of the major resources (eg materials, energy, labour) required for the process to operate in an ongoing manner.
9Estimated benefits refer to likely positive impacts from the production, distribution and/or sales of the units produced in terms of economic, social and environmental considerations. Examples of considerations include: economic – increased personal revenue, increased revenue in local/national economy; social – increased employment opportunities, enhanced quality of life due to product, increased cultural understandings through product line; environmental – impact of ‘green’ production, reducing waste and decreasing energy consumption.
Note: It is expected that the estimates will be approximate, but realistic.
10Estimated costs refer to likely negative impacts from the production, distribution and/or sales of the units produced in terms of economic, social and environmental considerations. Examples of considerations include: economic – obtaining materials, equipment purchase and maintenance, energy and labour; social – rezoning of land, shift work impacts on family life, impact of new product on existing/competing market; environmental – noise, pollution, erosion, depletion of natural resources.
Note: It is expected that the estimates will be approximate, but realistic.
11Viability refers to such things as the sustainability of the production process for its estimated life cycle in terms of its potential social and environmental impact, likely future demands and availability of resources for the maintenance of the production process.
12The client is a key stakeholder. Otherkey stakeholdersare those who are directly implicated in the development work, or who would be directly impacted by the implementation of the multi-unit production. Wider-community stakeholdersare those who are or may be indirectly implicated in the development work, or who are or may be indirectly impacted by the implementation of the multi-unit production.
Replacement information
This achievement standard and unit standard 14374 have been replaced by AS91618.
This achievement standard replaced AS90627.
Quality Assurance
1Providers and Industry Training Organisations must have been granted consent to assess by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against achievement standards.
2Organisations with consent to assess and Industry Training Organisations assessing against achievement standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those achievement standards.
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference / 0226 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2019