Elements and Performance Criteria
- Remove current equipment and/or tooling
- Identify all safety and emergency procedures
- Shut down furnace and ancillary equipment in accordance with work instructions and manufacturer's specifications
- Conduct tests and checks on equipment/tooling prior to removal in accordance with work instructions
- Remove current equipment/tooling in accordance with work instructions and manufacturer's specifications
- Complete records and logs for removal
- Install and set up new equipment and/or tooling
- Perform checks and tests prior to installation
- Identify any faults in equipment/tooling and take appropriate action
- Install and set up appropriate equipment/tooling for new production process in accordance with work instructions
- Ensure alignment of all equipment and perform checks according to product specifications and work instructions
- Ensure setup and configuration of equipment for startup complies with work instructions
- Perform checks and tests to product and equipment in accordance with work instructions
- Monitor, interpret data and adjust operation
- Ensure forming equipment start up function complies with work instructions
- Ensure glass forming equipment is operated in accordance with work instructions
- Monitor instruments and control panels, and interpret test results for fluctuations, variations and trends
- Monitor plant and process and deduce conditions of materials in process and products being made
- Determine appropriate action to improve process operation
- Adjust furnace controls to ensure glass parameters are maintained to job specifications
- Check that process operation has improved
- Continue analysing data and making adjustments until desired level of process operation is achieved and product is within specifications in accordance with work instructions
- Sample, test and record product data
- Carry out sampling procedures appropriate to the product and the test in line with enterprise requirements
- Complete appropriate test to enterprise and client requirements
- Identify variations from process parameters and take appropriate action
- Measure/graph and record operating parameters, according to enterprise requirements
- Record test results in hard or electronic form as required by standard procedures and work instructions
- Rectify equipment and quality problems
- Identify the range of equipment and quality faults that can occur during the operation
- Diagnose possible causes of equipment and quality faults
- Rectify cause of equipment failure and quality faults by established enterprise procedures
- Identify and rectify equipment failure causes in accordance with established enterprise procedures
- Ensure appropriate records and log books of equipment operations are maintained to meet enterprise requirements
- Identify non-routine problems and report to designated person
- Shut down equipment
- Prepare equipment for maintenance
- Control hazards