Application
This unit of competency defines the skills and knowledge required to mark and cut out sheets for composite use.
The marking out/cutting out of sheets used for composites can be significantly different to the marking out/cutting out of other materials, including metals. Sheets used in composite fabrication often have significant directionality which must be considered and as a result of this composite design often includes different physical properties in one direction to another and so sheets must be marked and cut to align the required directional properties of the product with those of the sheets used in the fabrication.
Where the selection and use of hand tools is required unit MEM18001 Use hand tools should also be selected.
Where the selection and use of power tools is required unit MEM18002 Use power tools/hand held operations should also be selected.
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 product 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 | Determine requirements of sheet material to be used from specifications, job sheets or work instructions and customer requests | ||
1.5 | Identify process to be used to fabricate product | ||
2 | Develop geometric shape | 2.1 | Develop lay flats for regular solid rectilinear shapes |
2.2 | Develop lay flats for regular curved/circular shapes | ||
2.3 | Develop lay flats for transition pieces | ||
2.4 | Develop lay flats for complex 3-D shapes | ||
3 | Orient required shape to suit directional differences of sheet | 3.1 | Identify directional properties in sheet |
3.2 | Identify sheet-related directional requirements of product | ||
3.3 | Identify orientations and alignments of lay flats with sheet | ||
4 | Mark out and cut sheet | 4.1 | Identify and control hazards |
4.2 | Place lay flat on sheet and arrange lay flats to minimise waste | ||
4.3 | Prevent lay flat moving and mark sheet, as required, using lay flat | ||
4.4 | Cut sheet to meet requirements | ||
4.5 | Identify typical problems and take appropriate remedial action | ||
4.6 | Perform final verification to meet product requirements | ||
5 | Store templates/lay flats | 5.1 | Clean lay flats after use |
5.2 | Label lay flat using identification protocol | ||
5.3 | Record required directionality information with lay flat | ||
5.4 | Store lay flats according to procedures | ||
5.5 | Complete logs and reports according to SOPs | ||
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. | |
Sheets include one (1) or more of the following: | reinforcing: woven non-woven pre-impregnated (pre-preg) cores timber, including medium density fibreboard (MDF) and plywood filler material |
Requirements of sheet material includes the following: | strength flexibility/rigidity thickness density directionality drape operating temperature |
Regular rectilinear shapes include one (1) or more of the following: | rectangular prisms cubes portions of prisms and cubes similar shapes |
Regular curved shapes include one (1) or more of the following: | cylinders spheres segments of cylinders and spheres similar shapes |
Transition pieces include one (1) or more of the following: | cones pyramids portions of cones and pyramids square to round tee piece lobster back similar shapes |
Complex 3-D shapes include the following: | other 3-D shapes which may need to be fabricated and which may be composed of a number of components of the above shapes |
Alignment includes the following: | warp weft selvedge other features of the sheet the nesting of lay flats to optimise the use of materials and minimise waste |
Typical problems include one (1) or more of the following: | identifying directionality in sheet identify a feature to provide alignment products requiring multidirectional properties |
Competency Field
Composites