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Title / Demonstrate industry knowledge for carton converting
Level / 3 / Credits / 15
Purpose / People credited with this unit standard are able to: use trade terms, vocabulary, instruction marks and abbreviations applicable to carton converting; demonstrate understanding of pre-make ready tasks, and the requirements of other departments and processes affected by production in the workplace; demonstrate mathematical skills applicable to carton converting production; demonstrate knowledge of the machinery and equipment used in carton converting production, the importance of maintaining workflow throughout production, and the storage and/or warehousing systems in use in the workplace; demonstrate knowledge of paper, board and product consumables used in carton converting; follow written instructions and complete forms; use reference material to ensure procedures are followed and required standards are met; demonstrate knowledge of the factors contributing to production costs; and explain the importance of confidentiality.
Classification / Fibreboard Packaging > Carton 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, Resource Management Act 1991, and their subsequent amendments.
2Workplace practices refer to the documented procedures for the machine and/or workplace.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Use trade terms, vocabulary, instruction marks and abbreviations applicable to carton converting.
Evidence requirements
1.1Trade terms and vocabulary common to carton converting are listed and defined.
Rangemay include but is not limited to – automatic set up base (ASUB), bleed, calibration, calliper, carton, case, corrugated board, crashlock, crease lines, creasing, cutting, delivery, die, dwell time, feed gates, flatbed, foiling, fold, folder, folded and glued cartons, form, forme, forme cut cartons, grain direction, glue, glue flap, grammage, gravure, grip, guard, guillotine, half slotted case (HSC), hot-melt, impression, laminating, lay, letterpress, lithography, lock out, machine direction, make ready, margins, nicks, number up, offset, one up (two up), panels, pre folder, pre-make ready, picking, pick off, plough, proof, register, register marks, regular slotted container (RSC), scoring, screen printing, set off, shippers, shingle, side lay, solvent, stacker, stitching, stripped carton blanks, stripping, substrate, transfer section, tray forming, viscosity, window patching;
at least eight terms.
1.2Trade terms and vocabulary applicable to carton converting are used in the process being undertaken.
1.3Instruction marks and abbreviations are used for the process being undertaken.
Rangemay include but is not limited to – register marks, bleed marks, trim marks, laymarks, centre line.
Outcome 2
Demonstrate understanding of pre-make ready tasks, and the requirements of other departments and processes affected by production in the workplace.
Evidence requirements
2.1Pre-make ready tasks undertaken in the workplace are identified.
2.2Machine systems used in the carton converting area of the workplace are described, and the uses and advantages of each system explained.
2.3Requirements of other departments and processes affected by the production being undertaken are described.
Rangemay include but is not limited to – cut and crease, carton forme making, finishing.
Outcome 3
Demonstrate mathematical skills applicable to carton converting production.
Evidence requirements
3.1Problems are solved using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
3.2Scales are read and calculations made to ensure job requirements are met.
3.3Calculations used meet requirements of the processes and operations being undertaken.
Outcome 4
Demonstrate knowledge of the machinery and equipment used in carton converting production.
Rangemay include but is not limited to – printer, folders, gluer, slotter, creaser, transfer section, window patcher, folder/gluer, glue gun, glue station, plough, rails.
Evidence requirements
4.1Machinery and equipment used in the workplace for carton converting production are identified.
4.2Machinery and equipment used in the workplace for carton converting production are described in terms of their functions.
Outcome 5
Demonstrate knowledge of the importance of maintaining workflow throughout production.
Evidence requirements
5.1Importance of flow of work from the time a job is raised through production and distribution is described.
5.2A selected job is explained in terms of its workflow from start to finish.
Outcome 6
Demonstrate knowledge of the storage and/or warehousing systems in use in the workplace.
Evidence requirements
6.1Storage and/or warehousing systems located in the workplace are described.
Rangestorage systems may include but are not limited to – board store, plate store, die store, ink store, finished goods store, distribution store, hazardous goods store, inward goods store;
handling systems may include but are not limited to the use of – racks, pallet jacks, buckets, trolleys, pallet containers, conveyors, forklifts, fork-hoists.
6.2Functions and services of storage and/or warehousing systems in the range of evidence requirement 6.1 are described.
Rangefunctions may include – receive, store and move stock, monitor stock, issue stock, dispose of obsolescent stock, despatch stock;
services may include – stock enquiries, stock level maintenance, cataloguing, data entry, scanning.
6.3Systems used in the workplace for recording stock movement are outlined.
Rangemay include but is not limited to – electronic, paper, storage areas, movement procedures, documentation requirements.
6.4Material handling equipment is identified in terms of the types of goods it may be used for.
Rangemay include but is not limited to – conveyors, forklifts, fork-hoists, trolleys.
Outcome 7
Demonstrate knowledge of paper, board, and product consumables used in carton converting.
Evidence requirements
7.1Processes used to manufacture substrates used in carton converting are described.
Rangeany of – papermaking, board making.
7.2Substrates used in carton converting are identified in terms of their characteristics.
Rangepaper, carton boards.
7.3Effects of relative humidity problems likely to be encountered in the workplace are outlined and ways of overcoming these are explained.
Rangesubstrate distortion, adhesive tape problems, temperature control, relative humidity control units.
7.4Product consumables used in the workplace are described in terms of their uses and characteristics.
Outcome 8
Follow written instructions and complete forms.
Evidence requirements
8.1Job instruction sheets and associated written instructions are followed to meet workplace practices.
8.2Forms are completed in accordance with workplace practices.
Rangemay include but is not limited to – time sheets, order forms, requisition forms.
Outcome 9
Use reference material to ensure procedures are followed and required standards are met.
Rangemay include but is not limited to – trade publications, instruction manuals, maintenance manuals, spare parts manuals, videos, DVDs, product specification information, customer specification information.
Evidence requirements
9.1Reference material applicable to the process and workplace is located.
9.2Reference material is used to ensure machine operation and product use meet workplace requirements.
Outcome 10
Demonstrate knowledge of the factors contributing to production costs.
Evidence requirements
10.1Effects of wages, materials and machinery costs are described in terms of overall production costs.
10.2Effect of wastage is described in terms of profitability.
10.3Systems for recording stock movements are outlined in terms of their importance.
Outcome 11
Explain the importance of confidentiality.
Evidence requirements
11.1Importance of maintaining confidentiality is explained in terms of work entrusted to the company.
11.2Importance of maintaining confidentiality is explained in terms of the business affairs of the company’s clients.
11.3Importance of maintaining confidentiality is explained in terms of the company’s business.
Replacement information / This unit standard and unit standard 21615 have been replaced by unit standard 27821.This unit standard replaced unit standard 3675.
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 December 2006 / 31 December 2015
Revision / 2 / 12 December 2008 / 31 December 2015
Review / 3 / 20 September 2012 / 31 December 2019
Rollover / 4 / 10 December 2015 / 31 December 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference / 0005
This CMR can be accessed at
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 / New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2018 / / New Zealand Qualifications Aut