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Title / Run and monitor the injection moulding production process
Level / 2 / Credits / 9
Purpose / People credited with this unit standard are able to: apply and monitor injection machine settings; perform a material or colour changeover on the moulding machine; and identify and correct routine product moulding faults.
Classification / Plastics Processing Technology > Injection Moulding
Available grade / Achieved
Entry information
Recommended skills and knowledge / Unit 253, Operate the injection moulding machine;and Unit 23130, Classify and name plastics materials; or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
1All work practices must meet enterprise health and safety requirements.
2Definitions
Enterprise- an organisation where training and/or assessment is taking place, and/or where the trainee is employed.
Enterprise procedure- actions which comply with the policies, systems, and directives in a particular enterprise. Enterprise procedure must comply with the requirements of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, and subsequent amendments.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Apply and monitor injection machine settings.
Rangeevidence is required for two machine set-ups for two different products.
Evidence requirements
1.1Injection moulding machine is set up in accordance with job specification and enterprise procedures.
1.2Injection moulding machine settings are monitored to maintain product specification, and records are maintained in accordance with enterprise procedures.
Outcome 2
Perform a material changeover on the moulding machine.
RangeTrainee must carry out a material changeover and a colour changeover.
Evidence requirements
2.1Purging is performed in accordance with enterprise procedures.
2.2Raw material and additives are selected to comply with job specification.
2.3Machine is cleaned of all previous materials, and is reloaded with the selected raw material in accordance with enterprise procedures and job specification.
2.4Machine is run with new material and monitored to meet job specification.
Outcome 3
Identify and correct routine product moulding faults.
Rangeroutine product moulding faults include but are not limited to – sinking, flash, shorts, colour, size, surface finish, deformations, voids, degradation;
evidence is required for at least six faults.
Evidence requirements
3.1Routine product moulding faults are identified and corrected in accordance with enterprise procedure.
3.2Injection process faults are reported according to enterprise procedure.
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 / 28 April 1993 / 31 December 2013
Revision / 2 / 13 February 1997 / 31 December 2013
Review / 3 / 23 January 1998 / 31 December 2013
Review / 4 / 24 August 2006 / 31 December 2019
Review / 5 / 21 March 2013 / 31 December 2019
Review / 6 / 15 September 2016 / 31 December 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference / 0134
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