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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Fabricate product
  2. Determine product requirements
  3. Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
  4. Select and use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
  5. Determine requirements of core and/or filler from specifications, job sheets or work instructions and customer requests
  6. Select appropriate process to be used to fabricate product
  7. Select most appropriate core and/or fillers for job
  8. Compare required properties with specifications of available cores and/or fillers
  9. Select most appropriate core and/or filler
  10. Evaluate selected core and/or filler
  11. Conduct/organise for relevant tests
  12. Evaluate test results against product requirements
  13. Review fabrication process and make any required changes to core, filler or process
  14. Prepare selected core and/or filler, as required
  15. Lay core in correct direction, including directional properties, as appropriate
  16. Prepare nominated reinforcing, including cutting to size/shape, packaging into kits and ant pre-treatment, as required
  17. Lay reinforcing in correct direction including fibre orientation and fibre pre-forming, as appropriate
  18. Mix nominated resin system, as required
  19. Prepare and incorporate core and/or filler, as required
  20. Fabricate product using selected process and minimise waste
  21. Review product compared to requirements
  22. Review core and/or filler selection and fabrication process
  23. Identify areas for improvement and take appropriate actions
  24. Complete any required documentation/reporting according to SOPs

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Fillers include the following:

particulate materials which can be added to the composite matrix to vary the bulk, stiffness, density or other properties of the final composite

Requirements of core include the following:

stiffness/flexibility

directionality

density

shear strength

operating temperature

provision of thickness

provision of some rigidity

thermal and acoustic insulation, where appropriate

but not the significant structural strength provided by reinforcing

Most appropriate core/filler includes the following:

compliance with product requirements

greatest ease of use in manufacture

best financial return

greatest sustainability contribution

Areas for improvement include one (1) or more of the following:

cost/benefit of different core/filler systems

selecting a core/filler suited to the fabrication process

air/vapour entrapment

bonding/delaminating

contamination

Sustainability includes the following:

survival of the ecology/physical environment

economic viability

social sustainability