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Title / Operate a film conversion machine
Level / 2 / Credits / 7
Purpose / People credited with this unit standard are able to: start up and shut down a film conversion machine and ancillary equipment that have been pre-set; operate a film conversion process for printed and unprinted products; and demonstrate knowledge of film conversion products.
Classification / Plastics Processing Technology > Film Conversion
Available grade / Achieved
Entry information
Recommended skills and knowledge / Unit 275, Perform process operations for film conversion.
Explanatory notes
Definitions
Enterprise – an organisation where training and/or assessment is taking place, and/or where the trainee is employed.
Enterprise procedures – actions which comply with the policies, systems, and directives in a particular enterprise. Enterprise procedures must comply with the requirements of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, and subsequent amendments.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Start up and shut down a film conversion machine and ancillary equipment that have been pre-set, in accordance with enterprise procedures.
Evidence requirements
1.1Work area is cleared and cleaned to ensure safe operating conditions.
Rangework area may include – floors, stairs, platforms, machine surfaces, ledges, intake and output areas, hand tools.
1.2Materials for conversion are verified against job specification, and a simple roll change is performed.
Rangesimple roll change includes manual changing and splicing of rolls of single wound sheet or layflat film.
1.3Film conversion machine and ancillary equipment start up and shut down are performed.
Outcome 2
Operate a film conversion process for printed and unprinted products in accordance with enterprise procedures.
Rangeprinted and unprinted products may include those made from – centre folded film, registered product, perforated product, taped product, punched product, gusseted product, in-line printed product, longitudinally sealed product;
evidence is required for one printed and one unprinted product.
Evidence requirements
2.1Seal bar face is cleaned or teflon is inspected.
2.2Conversion process operations are performed, and quality inspection procedures are consistently applied.
Rangeconversion process operations include – product removal, product packaging, product handling, product testing.
2.3Routine film conversion product faults are identified and reported.
Rangeroutine film conversion product faults – seal strength, seal contamination, seal appearance, seal position, product dimensions, print position, print registration, print direction, print quality, blocking, stacking.
2.4Film visual and surface defects are identified and reported.
Rangevisual and surface defects include – gels, surface finish, gloss, print quality, scratches, creases, pin holes, dirt, oil, grease.
2.4Film conversion process faults are reported.
Outcome 3
Demonstrate knowledge of film conversion products.
Evidence requirements
3.1Bag types are identified, and described in terms of their features and differences.
Rangebag types – taped, loose, gusseted, wicketed, singlet bag, perforated-on-reel, printed bag.
3.2Seal types are identified in terms of their features.
Rangeseal types – bottom, side, mixed, longitudinal, running, square bottom, angle, pouch, slit.
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 2012
Revision / 2 / 13 February 1997 / 31 December 2012
Review / 3 / 23 January 1998 / 31 December 2012
Review / 4 / 27 October 2005 / 31 December 2012
Review / 5 / 15 September 2011 / 31 December 2019
Review / 6 / 15 September 2016 / 31 December 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference / 0134
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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.
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