The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
CIM | CIM uses mechatronic and manufacturing technologies integrated across an enterprise by the communication of data to control plant and operations, plan production, marketing, maintenance and feedback to the business planning process |
Standards and codes | Standards and codes refer to all relevant Australian and international standards and codes applicable to CIM applications and systems |
Automation safety | Automation safety refers to the reliance on emergency stop, failsafe design, redundancy, system interlocks and data integrity. Standards apply to general plant design and use as well as the ‘functional safety of safety-related electrical, electronic and programmable electronic control systems’ |
Appropriate technical and professional assistance | Appropriate technical and professional assistance may include: technical support and advice relating to elements which have intrinsic dangers, such as: high pressure energised fluid vessels high temperatures and heat energy capacity wiring with high current control voltages above extra low voltage professional support for technologies, such as: specialist electric motor drives and controllers specialist materials, plastics, metal alloys and nano materials special processes, foundry, alloy welding, heat treatment, sealing and fastening |
WHS, regulatory requirements and enterprise procedures | WHS, regulatory requirements and enterprise procedures may include: WHS Acts and regulations relevant standards codes of practice from Australian and overseas engineering and technical associations and societies risk assessments registration requirements safe work practices state and territory regulatory requirements |
CIM hardware | Hardware options for CIM systems may include: robots pick and place, materials handling, automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and transfer devices fluid power components pumping and wash equipment boilers, heating and drying equipment pasteurising, chilling and refrigeration equipment welding equipment moulding, casting and forging equipment pressing, forming, drawing and cropping equipment surface finishing, plating and painting packaging equipment mechanical linkages and support structures pressure, temperature, proximity sensor/transducers, relative and absolute encoders, vision systems and smart cameras controllers, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and remote telemetry units (RTUs) HMIs (e.g. touch screens) power interfaces and signal processors for digital and analog control stepper motors servo motors, torque, speed and position control special purpose equipment (e.g. package labelling equipment, logistics and warehousing requirements) wired and wireless networking systems |
Data and communications protocols and standards | Data and communications protocols and standards include the set of standardised rules for data and signal syntax, checking and error detection. Hardware and software generate data in accordance with a protocol that allows generators and receivers to understand or translate the data as information, control signals integrity and error checks. These may include the following or their current updates: layered communications and networking protocols Open Systems Interconnection Model (OSI Model) – 7 layers TCP/IP Internet Protocol Suite {Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP)} – 4 or 5 layers IEEE 802 LAN/MAN group of standards, including IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.11 Wireless networking standard Interface standards, such as: RS232 and RS485, Fieldbus, Modbus and DNP3.0 |
Network topology | Network topology refers to the arrangement of connected hardware. These include: bus, ring, star, tree, mesh and in-line (2 way comms.) arrangements wired and wireless options |
Sustainability | Sustainability is used to mean the entire sustainable performance of the organisation/plant, including: meeting all regulatory requirements conforming to all industry covenants, protocols and best practice guides minimising ecological and environmental footprint of process, plant and product maximising economic benefit of process plant and product to the organisation and the community minimising the negative WHS impact on employees, community and customer |
Continuous improvement implementation | Continuous improvement implementation may relate to plant, products, processes, systems or services, including design, development, implementation or manufacture, commissioning, operation or delivery and maintenance. Improvement processes may include techniques, such as: balanced scorecard current and future state mapping measuring performance against benchmarks process improvement, problem solving and decision making data management, generation, recording, analysing, storing and use of software training for improvement systems participation technical training |