Application
This unit of competency defines the skills and knowledge required to select the appropriate process to achieve the desired result, record and maintain heat treatment information, and test treated materials.
Equipment used does not include drop and upset machinery, vacuum furnaces or rolling and extruding mill machinery.
Where destructive and/or non-destructive testing is required units defining the appropriate skills and knowledge should also be selected.
Where heat treatment is required appropriate heat treatment units should also be selected.
Where the interpretation of technical drawings is required unit MEM09002 Interpret technical drawing should also be selected.
Where the selection and use of engineering measurement is required unit MEM12023 Perform engineering measurements should also be selected.
Where the selection and tools are required, unit MEM18001 Use hand tools and unit MEM18002 Use power tools/hand held operations, should also be selected as appropriate.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Band: A
Unit Weight: 6
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, sketches, job sheets or work instructions | ||
2 | Select heat treatment process | 2.1 | Determine appropriate heating processes and equipment suited to the metal composition and the effects of heat and cooling on that metal composition |
2.2 | Determine heat treatment process to achieve specified result using reference material, metallurgist's report, and consultation with technical specialists or other appropriate personnel | ||
2.3 | Enter selection into production documentation | ||
3 | Test material | 3.1 | Prepare material for testing, as required |
3.2 | Carry out destructive and/or non-destructive testing of material properties using appropriate testing equipment | ||
3.3 | Identify any heat treatment faults and report, if appropriate | ||
3.4 | Rectify heat treatment faults, where possible | ||
3.5 | Record and maintain information relating to equipment, as required | ||
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, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included. | |
Heat treatment processes include one (1) or more of the following: | coatings and packings preheating soaking quenching tempering annealing normalising carburising sintering |
Metal composition includes one (1) or more of the following: | high/low carbon steel ferrous/non-ferrous |
Equipment includes one (1) or more of the following: | salt baths vacuum furnace induction heating kilns gas fired furnaces |
Materials include one (1) or more of the following: | ferrous metals non-ferrous metals |
Testing includes the following: | destructive methods non-destructive methods |
Heat treatment faults include one (1) or more of the following: | thermal fractures distortion shrinkage oxidisation |
Competency Field
Forging