Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify and confirm data acquisition requirements
- Use controlling body rules, category rules, supplementary regulations and team requirements to specify task requirements, including configuration, equipment, quality and quantities
- Access and interpret benchmark specifications for a correctly functioning
- Observe occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements, including regulatory requirements, equipment and system isolation requirements, and personal protection needs, throughout the work
- Configure electronic data acquisition systems
- Select and prepare tools and material to support the data acquisition process
- Calculate and enter component rates/ratios and parameters for input sensors within system math channels
- Enter sample rates most suited to particular data logging channel
- Conduct system check in accordance with regulatory, manufacturer/component supplier and team requirements
- Retrieve data
- Use team instructions and procedures to identify data retrieval requirements for specific purposes
- Follow data retrieval process in accordance with specifications and directions
- Verify data retrieved, where appropriate, by using reliable alternate or optional processes
- Identify variables and potential for inaccurate results
- Analyse data
- Compare all sources of collected data
- Analyse data using mathematical processes
- Analyse trends and patterns in data including non-conforming results outside of the predicted outcomes
- Investigate possible reasons for trends and patterns
- Identify potential performance enhancement solutions
- Report problems with the required data and/or the operation of the equipment to appropriate persons
- Present data
- Clean up work area and maintain equipment
- Clean, maintain and prepare equipment ready for future use and store in accordance with manufacturer/component supplier specifications and team requirements
- Remove waste material according to team procedures
- Diagnose faults in acquisition systems and components
- Document unserviceable equipment and faults and take appropriate action in accordance with team procedures