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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Confirm design brief of new product in consultation with relevant people
   • Review product design with customer and other key stakeholders and agree on technical specification, aesthetic requirements, timelines, cost and other market requirements
   • Determine any regulatory, industry code/intellectual property requirements for product
   • Identify any required tooling, process or equipment needs
   • Confirm design brief, including relevant drawings, to meet needs
   • Determine design brief conforms to organisation objectives and capability
   • Obtain approval on total design brief from all relevant personnel

Required Skills

Required skills

Required skills include selecting and justifying the selection of type of materialmaterial specification appropriate process for a range of productmarket applications material and product testing procedures applying theoretical principles to predict properties of product based on materials selected identifying effects of processes and processing on the final properties of the product mathematically determine product cost estimates process time costbenefit to organisation of new product communicating at all levels in the organisation and value stream and to audiences of different levels of literacy and numeracy interpreting and making recommendations based on field test results market analysis data trialling data organisation objectives and business plan equipment and operations capacity

Required knowledge

Required knowledge includes materials equipment and process sufficient to choose an appropriate combination of materials and process to achieve the end use function of the product enterprise procedures and relevant regulatory requirements along with the ability to implement them within appropriate time constraints and work standards

Evidence Required

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
Competitive systems and practices	Competitive systems and practices may include but are not limited to lean operations agile operations preventative and predictive maintenance approaches monitoring and data gathering systems such as Systems Control and Data Acquisition SCADA software Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems Materials Resource Planning MRP and proprietary systems statistical process control systems including six sigma and three sigma Just in Time JIT kanban and other pullrelated operations control systems supply value and demand chain monitoring and analysis S continuous improvement kaizen breakthrough improvement kaizen blitz causeeffect diagrams overall equipment effectiveness OEE takt time process mapping problem solving run charts standard procedures current reality tree Competitive systems and practices should be interpreted so as to take into account the stage of implementation of competitive systems and practices the size of the enterprise the work organisation culture regulatory environment and the industry sector
Organisation objectives and requirements	Organisation objectives and requirements may include Board or management guidelines on costprofit requirements for new products eg minimum return and capital expenditure limits encouragementdiscouragement of different types of products eg on sustainability ethical or other nonindividual customer related criteria potential or actual capacity conflicts with other customers or productprocess activities activities that requiremay require community consultation eg on noise or other environmental grounds
Tools and equipment	Tools and equipment may include understanding of use of all standard processing equipment relevant personal protective equipment
Typical regulatory requirements	Typical regulatory requirements may include occupational health and safety OHS environmental regulations structural codes productindustry specific requirements
Typical problems	Typical problems may include defining product enduse requirements in terms meaningful to the product design and manufacture matching suitable materials and processes to the product needs and company expertise and facilities matching and improving process capability to product tolerances
Relevant factors	Relevant factors may include type of material dimensional precision of product length of runnumber of products required aesthetics size and complexity of product available capital funding process equipment available HSE factors

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Range Statement

Not applicable.

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