Application
This unit of competency defines the skills and knowledge required to mark out complex and irregular shapes and reflects advanced skills required to calculate cutting, bending lines and developments.
Where the skills required are for marking out activities associated with general engineering and maintenance functions, one or more of the following units should also be selected as appropriate:
MEM07005 Perform general machining
MEM12006 Mark off/out (general engineering)
MEM18006 Perform precision fitting of engineering components
MEM18014 Manufacture press tools and gauges.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Band: A
Unit Weight: 4
Elements and Performance Criteria
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. | ||
1 | Determine job requirements | 1.1 | Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs) |
1.2 | Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times | ||
1.3 | Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs | ||
1.4 | Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions | ||
2 | Mark off/out light/heavy gauge fabrications | 2.1 | Determine and apply specifications and work requirements using appropriate calculations |
2.2 | Carry out development to specifications or procedures using appropriate tools and equipment | ||
2.3 | Establish and indicate datum points | ||
2.4 | Determine and mark allowances | ||
3 | Make templates as required | 3.1 | Select appropriate template material to the marking out requirements |
3.2 | Produce templates | ||
3.3 | Determine and transfer allowances | ||
3.4 | Produce templates to meet specifications | ||
3.5 | Follow correct storage procedures, including labelling and identification to procedures | ||
4 | Develop patterns as required | 4.1 | Select and apply parallel line, radial line and triangulation development methods, as appropriate, to the work requirements |
4.2 | Determine and transfer allowances | ||
5 | Interpret relevant codes, standards and symbols | 5.1 | Interpret relevant standards/codes and symbols |
5.2 | Interpret and apply requirements of standards/codes to materials and processes | ||
6 | Estimate quantities of materials from engineering drawings | 6.1 | Identify materials |
6.2 | Estimate quantities from drawings | ||
6.3 | Optimise material use and ensure wastage is minimised | ||
Foundation Skills
This section describes those required skills (reading, writing, oral communication and numeracy) that are essential to workplace performance in this unit of competency.
Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.
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. | |
Light gauge fabrications include one (1) or more of the following: | square/rectangular ventilation ducting air conditioning cylindrical components and include one (1) or more of the following: elliptical shapes curves spirals |
Heavy gauge fabrications include one (1) or more of the following: | ducting extraction piping cylindrical components and include one (1) or more of the following: elliptical shapes curves spirals |
Allowances include one (1) or more of the following: | thickness bend pitch angle circumference perimeter contraction |
Template materials include one (1) or more of the following: | steel plate perspex timber |
Templates produced include one (1) or more of the following: | rolling bending pressing drilling profiling cutting |
Storage procedures include one (1) or more of the following: | labelling identification (e.g. template lofts) |
Development methods include the following: | parallel line radial line triangulation |
Competency Field
Fabrication