Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to translate information into measurements or diagrams
- Identify customer requirements from customer information
- Review customer information to ensure all required data is available
- Seek additional information, as needed
- Locate and interpret technical information about products, materials, equipment and operating procedures, as required, for processing customer request
- Follow workplace procedures and instructions
- Identify components, products and services
- Develop concept of completed product or service
- Determine required accessories, attachments and other components
- Determine anchor points, and types and sizes of openings
- Identify potential difficulties or hazards associated with manufacture of the product or provision of the service
- Identify environmental features, regulations, insurance requirements, legal requirements and other factors which may affect the product or service to be provided
- Develop graphical information to help define customer requirements
- Apply knowledge of customer requirements to produce freehand sketches or diagrams illustrating the customer's requirements
- Transfer dimensions and angles on to the sketch or diagram accurately
- Mark out positions of attachments, openings, fittings or inserts accurately and clearly
- Show positions of ropes, struts, retractors or supports clearly
- Develop and incorporate details of gussets, pockets, hips and other features in the sketches, diagrams or drawings
- Calculate dimensional allowances for cutting, rolled edges, joins and reinforcements, and incorporate in the sketches, diagrams or drawings
- Make provision for seams, joins and overlaps and check all dimensions and angles are accurate
- Use tools, equipment and resources to WHS practices
- Finalise information
- Prepare final sketches, diagrams and drawings manually or using computer-aided design (CAD) system to confirm customer requirements and provide feedback to customer
- Store information, sketches, diagrams and drawings according to workplace procedures
- Pass on graphical information to personnel within the organisation responsible for further action