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Title / Demonstrate knowledge of rotary die cutting faults in the corrugated packaging industry
Level / 2 / Credits / 10
Purpose / People credited with this unit standard are able to identify rotary die cutting faults and describe their causes, and demonstrate knowledge of the actions required to rectify faults.
Classification / Fibreboard Packaging > Corrugated Case Converting
Available grade / Achieved
Explanatory notes
1All 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.
2Workplace practices refer to the documented procedures for the machine and/or workplace.
3The publication Corrugating Defect/Remedy Manual, editor James T. Carbone, TAPPI Press, AtlantaUSA, Sixth edition 1999 is the standard for fault types and remedies for this unit standard.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Identify rotary die cutting faults and describe their causes.
Evidence requirements
1.1Faults are identified from photographs or diagrams or physical samples.
Rangefaults – variations in blank size, board fractured or cracked or damaged at die cutting, board fractured or cracked or damaged at creasing, board bends at non specified locations during creasing, board not cut to specification, board not creased to specification, board fails to bend accurately along crease locations, intermittent cutting, waste or scrap ejection not to specification, uneven cutting and/or creasing, die to board variation.
1.2A minimum of two causes are described for each fault identified at 1.1.
Rangethe causes described are those most often experienced in the workplace.
Outcome 2
Demonstrate knowledge of the actions required to rectify faults.
Evidence requirements
2.1A minimum of one action to rectify each fault cause provided 1.2 is described.
Rangethe corrective actions described are those most often undertaken in the workplace.
Replacement information / This unit standard and unit standard 10121 have been replaced by unit standard 27787.This unit standard is expiring.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 AssessmentRegistration / 1 / 18 February 1998 / 31 December 2015
Revision / 2 / 27 March 2001 / 31 December 2015
Review / 3 / 27 April 2005 / 31 December 2015
Rollover and Revision / 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
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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.
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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 / New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2018 / / New Zealand Qualifications Aut