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Elements and Performance Criteria
Required Skills
Evidence Required
Range Statement
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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. |
Heat treatment process | Coatings and packings, preheating, soaking, quenching, tempering, annealing, normalising, carburising, sintering |
Metal composition | High/low carbon steel, ferrous/non-ferrous |
Equipment | Salt baths, vacuum furnace, induction heating, kilns, gas fired furnaces etc. Equipment range does not include drop and upset machinery, vacuum furnaces or rolling and extruding mill machinery. |
Material | Ferrous and non-ferrous metals |
Testing | Testing includes destructive and non-destructive methods |
Heat treatment faults | Thermal fractures, distortion, shrinkage, oxidisation, etc. |